I am near desperate finding a book to read after this one. Just picked these two up from the library… if you’ve read either, please let me know your thoughts!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Happy World Book Night, Y’all!
World Book Night is tonight! So grab something delectable and get cozy under the stars.
What will you be reading?
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This Weekend I…
– Painted my nails in ridiculous pastel colors.
– Finished the best book I’ve read in years.
– Possibly came down with cat scratch fever.
– Caught up on missed episodes of Up All Night, New Girl, and Happy Endings.
– Got my butt to the gym… Here we go, summer!
– Downloaded some gopher golf solitaire game on the iPad and am chronically addicted.
– Sipped cappuccinos in the rain.
– Checked out a new exhibit at a local art space.
Fell In Love With A Book
Particularly, this book. Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton, owner of Prune, is a memoir extraordinaire. I am completely enthralled by her life: growing up with a ballerina mother and set designer father who threw lavish entertaining events at their rural farm house, an adolescence that quite nearly defines “troubled youth,” the struggle of taking dead end jobs just to figure out where she belonged… It is exactly everything I wanted to read. Hamilton’s prose is sardonic, literary, and peppered with wonderful metaphor. Her personality comes across as daring and contrarian in the best possible way. She is able to bserve the world and her circumstances with humor and insight. I find myself stealthily finding opportunities to just read a few paragraphs here and there throughout the day. This is a definite add to you future reading list.
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This Weekend I…
– I for real miss Downton Abbey.
– Betty Crockered it up with a delicious Saturday morning breakfast of pancakes with berry compote and pure maple syrup!
– Finished Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, which was equal parts repulsive and fascinating. McCarthy has this way of articulating the human side of those we see as outcasts, or those we label “inhuman” because it is too hard for us to comprehend that characters like Lester Ballard as, in fact, much more like us than we are comfortable with. McCarthy, as an author, reserves judgment, relying instead on constructing the story.
– Began reading Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton. I found this in the dollar bin at my local library, which is surprising considering that it is a relatively new book and has received massive amounts of acclaim! I am already having retroactive-envy over Hamilton’s idyllic upbringing.
– A lot of time was spent working from home this weekend. We took a quick break at the gallery, which was much needed, and I’ve been recharging a bit by making a lot of lists, cleaning out closets, and watching movies. Perfection.
– My cats have made a habit of overtaking my work space as soon as I set my computer down. It’s as if they’re saying, “Just FYI, this is our territory and we don’t care how many releases you’re writing, we demand to be entertained.”
– Speaking of cats… I spent a solid hour YouTube-ing “adorable cat videos” this afternoon. It was entirely necessary, trust me.
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