What's new this past week?
I got my second Shingryx vaccine, which knocked me out for a day. I lay shivering under my heated blanket all night, but my body temp regulated sometime through the night, and I felt better the next day. I had shingles when I was in university, and I definitely don't want it again. My province made the vaccine free for people over 50.
Reading wise, I only finished one book, All Fours but I did finish the 97 final exams, which makes this week-end very enjoyable with no correcting to do.
All Fours by Miranda July
This is a play-in book for the Tournament of Books. Mixed feelings on this one. The beginning was strong, I loved the main character's voice, as a woman of a certain age. Things started to go off the rails in the middle during the mid-life crisis, with some descriptive sx* passages, which I don't usually mind, but this felt off. The last third of the book was better, in showing how families can be different. I did appreciate the perimenopause focus of the book as I haven't noticed it in a lot of novels.
Still reading: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier who does historical fiction, while also focusing on some type of art, so well. There is much quilting in this one. I've got two audiobooks on the go because of due dates: Martyr, and Wandering Stars.
Reading wise, I only finished one book, All Fours but I did finish the 97 final exams, which makes this week-end very enjoyable with no correcting to do.
All Fours by Miranda July
This is a play-in book for the Tournament of Books. Mixed feelings on this one. The beginning was strong, I loved the main character's voice, as a woman of a certain age. Things started to go off the rails in the middle during the mid-life crisis, with some descriptive sx* passages, which I don't usually mind, but this felt off. The last third of the book was better, in showing how families can be different. I did appreciate the perimenopause focus of the book as I haven't noticed it in a lot of novels.
Still reading: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier who does historical fiction, while also focusing on some type of art, so well. There is much quilting in this one. I've got two audiobooks on the go because of due dates: Martyr, and Wandering Stars.
