reading

Finished reading: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer 📚

What a delightful read. As someone who still struggles with childhood trauma, I’m really inspired by how Paul has grown as a person and comes up with love for those who caused him pain. It’s also very funny.

Started reading: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer 📚

Finished reading: The Art of Gathering How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

This gave me a lot to think about. I took lots of notes. Using the advice is uncomfortable for me, but I think if I did everyone around me would be happier. After being pissed.

Started reading: The Art of Gathering How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

Finished reading: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚

Clear-eyed and constructive. I zipped through this on a few flights and felt enriched by my reading for the first time in a while.

Started reading: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚

Finished reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚

I really liked this one. It’s a wild, dramatic story well told. I relate in very broad strokes, especially towards the end. Eveyone who wanted to read this probably already has but I recommend it.

Started reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚

Finished reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 📚

Two weeks ago, I wrote about finishing Wolves of the Calla.

Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.

I made a mistake; my thoughts, above, were supposed to be for Song of Susannah, which I finished on August 11th, not Wolves of the Calla. Looks like I forgot to log “Wolves”!

Started reading: The Dark Tower 7:The Dark Tower by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: The Dark Tower V Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 📚

Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.

Finished reading: The Dark Tower V Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 📚

Started reading: The Dark Tower V Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: The Dark Tower IV by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚

I enjoyed this. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this surprised me with how dirty it was, in that American way where it’s obsessed with sex and also a bit prudish and scared (oh the deviants!). I can’t hate a New Jersey mystery, even if it doesn’t much resemble anything I’ve known in the state. Fun to read after the excellent Murder on Sex Island.

Started reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚

Finished reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚

Man this book is funny. Everything you love about a tight mystery, combined with everything insane about modern reality TV (and plain reality). Jo Firestone writes hilarious, relatable prose that moves. I flew through this. Can’t wait for the next book!

Currently reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚