Sunday, August 23, 2015

It's Monday and the gang is back together!

It's been a big week around here. We got D's 2nd grade assignments, so it's time to start buying the supplies and hoping that his teacher is great. My one sister is back from Mississippi for the week and the youngest one is about to head back to college, so we've been trying to get lots of family time in over the past few days. It's so nice to be all together, but all the driving back and forth makes me want to sleep a lot!

Reading-wise, I loved Karen Russell's short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove and then read Alice Hoffman's latest novel The Marriage of Opposites.

      Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories  The Marriage of Opposites  

Up next is The Small Backs of Children from the library, which is about a photographer whose life is forever changed by a child in an iconic photograph. Then I will be digging into Emily Freeman's new book Simply Tuesday.


      The Small Backs of Children  Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

What are you reading this week?
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  1. AnonymousAugust 24, 2015 at 8:17 AM

    I can tell it's back to school time here in the Bluegrass - lots of buses in the morning traffic now! Hope he has a great year (and teacher!).

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    1. LindseyAugust 24, 2015 at 9:55 PM

      It definitely feels like fall has started when you see all of the school buses in the morning! Thanks so much. :)

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  2. AnonymousAugust 24, 2015 at 11:19 AM

    Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water was such an intense book so I'm curious about her fiction. Hope it's good!

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    1. LindseyAugust 24, 2015 at 9:59 PM

      Thank you! I just started it, but I would certainly call it intense.

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  3. Heidi’sbooksAugust 24, 2015 at 1:42 PM

    School doesn't start here until next week. The Small Backs of Children looks interesting.

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    1. LindseyAugust 24, 2015 at 10:07 PM

      We've got two more weeks before school starts, but I feel like there is so much to do!

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  4. UnknownAugust 24, 2015 at 3:35 PM

    Alice Hoffman - I've been telling myself for years I need to get round to reading her work! The Small Backs of Children sounds interesting, I look forward to your thoughts on that one.

    I'm hoping to finish up The Ocean at the End of Lane by Neil Gaiman before delving in to The Maze Runner trilogy.

    All Things Bookish – Jade Louise

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    1. LindseyAugust 24, 2015 at 10:25 PM

      Alice Hoffman is fantastic! The Dovekeepers is my favorite of hers, although she has a ton of books to read!

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  5. Trish @ Love, Laughter, InsanityAugust 25, 2015 at 4:49 PM

    I haven't heard of any of these but I was so taken with the cover of Vampires in the Lemon Grove that I was surprised when I was reading your blurb and saw "Vampires." Had to do a double take to make sure that was really the title on the book. Ha!!

    Hope that back to school stuff goes smoothly. I'm glad I have another year before I have to go through all of that! Happy Tuesday. :)

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    1. LindseyAugust 26, 2015 at 10:53 PM

      Haha, there is a kind of disconnect between the cover and the content. There are some very creepy stories in there!

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