What I’m Reading
If your current book stack could talk, what would it say about you?
(Props to Sarah Westfall for her Instagram post on this topic, which inspired my sharing this with you.)
What I’m reading:
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
The 100% Unofficial Among Us Game Guide by Matt Yeo
I really like brightly colored books. I like brightly colored anything, actually, and sparkle. Some days, we all need all the help we can get being cheerful. I absolutely judge books by their covers. These make me happy to pick them up.
I like to be reading a novel and a nonfiction book at the same time. Lessons in Chemistry is a bittersweet and occasionally funny story about a scientist fighting the gender discrimination that wants to keep her down, and the strange and interesting turns life takes…and it also includes a really good dog named Six-Thirty. Bomb Shelter is a wonderful memoir about the ways our worries and fears play out in everyday life, and how to live a good life while accepting that those worries are part of love. I really loved this one, and it was a good companion to Shauna Niequist’s I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet, which I just finished.
I like recommendations. All three of these books were recommended to me by booksellers, people on Instagram, and, of course, my daughter. She endured days of playing Among Us with me while I shrieked when danger was near, and days of constant questions, as I could never remember how to do my tasks or use the map, before putting the game guide on top of my book stack and saying, “Read it. It will help.”
The library is such a good friend. I bought Bomb Shelter as an add-on from Book of the Month, but the library is where I find most of my fabulous new reads. It’s still miraculous to me that I can just walk out of there with whatever I want to read, for free. It’s a special kind of magic.
Books themselves are a special kind of magic, and I never get tired of seeing what they have to tell me about other places, worlds, and people, but also what they have to tell me about myself, and often that inner growth comes from facing up to the things with which I disagreed and had to articulate why. I’m enjoying these current reads, but I already can’t wait to see what I’ll read next.
