My 'last second to run out the door in time' alarm will go off in about 8 minutes and I'm currently in a tank top and pajama pants with bed-head. But my cup sill has coffee in it, and coffee must take priority.
Last night I started to read a new book. It's Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman. It's not a book I normally would choose, but at the time, it looked good, so I put it on my 'maybe' list and last night, chose it at random to start. I'm really liking it thus far. In part because with almost every page, I'm finding things I have in common with the author. Our personalities, our ways of thinking, our curiosity, individualism and more. So many things.
Our lifestyles are 100% different. Our backgrounds, religions, where we live, how we live and everything in between. But as children, I see so much of myself in her that I'm really relating to her and getting into the story. I love that. Because the last two books I read were awful. I couldn't stand the characters, the writing was pathetic and shoddy, and they were both so terrible, I rushed through them just to finish them and get it over with. (I almost ALWAYS finish a book no matter how bad.) One of the books was by James Patterson, which shocked me. It was so badly written, I honestly kept thinking to myself any random public school 8th grader could have written it. (It was Zoo 2 and I don't recommend it. He apparently had a partner in writing this one but you would think two heads would be better than one. I don't know how his publishing company or editor let this one slide. Bad. Bad. So bad. Not even free on Amazon would be cheap enough to read it.)
Well, I didn't know I'd chit-chat about books this morning, but it is what it is, and my time is up. The alarm will go off in about 1 minute. Time to fly...
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Interesting reading with your coffee.....