In the interests of maintaining consistency, I’d like to report on what I read (or didn’t) in May and June. Remember January? Anyway, I had wanted to read 50 books this year but then COVID-19 hit and I kind of relaxed my extracurricular goals.
One of the things that gave me an inkling that things would not be the same for awhile was the library app on my phone — in early March it automatically set all the due dates back by about three weeks. Then it kept rolling them further and further back. At this point, my books due at the end of March are due at the end of July and I have a feeling the library won’t even be open by then.
So…my organized library system has been shelved (groan) and apparently e-books don’t do it for me, maybe because I did a lot of reading in the moments captured between other obligations and now that my schedule is so much looser I feel adrift. Ironically, having more time to read has not actually helped me read more.
But anyway. In May I basically didn’t read at all. In June I read most of Codependent No More: How To Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, by Melody Beattie, so I’m going to count it. I’m also about a third of the way into a beautiful memoir by Madeleine L’Engle. I got really into cooking (the perks of lockdown) so I’m reading cookbooks, does that count?
And that’s what’s been going on here in books.
Read anything good recently?
