Two Sentence Book Reviews

Hello, blog reader!  I hope all is wonderful in your world!
All is well here, although Jeff and I realized two days ago that we will once again be cancelling our trip to Curacao.  That's three times now.... we were sure that this time would be different, but alas, the pandemic looks different all over the world.  Right now in Curacao, they're rebounding from a significant third wave in April and are being cautious to the point of not letting people drive their cars except on certain days of the week (!) - so after our initial grumblings, we re-routed to the Florida Keys.  I'm going to soak up the sun and read all the books!

Despite a generally hectic lifestyle, it seems that I'm managing to read all the books here lately even while not on vacation.  I'll keep me reviews short for you, but I'd *love* to hear about your recent reads!

​Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Although this fictional exploration of what it might be like if everyone in a country stopped dying has a fascinating premise, the run-on-sentence style of the book is exhausting.  Then the second half just gets weird and all of the sudden this is a romance?  

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Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Veronica read this, because Vicky gifted to her, and I promised I would read it as well.  I liked this YA strong-girls-band-together read more than I thought I would, but we both had lots of moments of, “Okay but that would never happen!” (Note: book way better than the movie, of course)

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Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First:  10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level by Laura Tremaine
I don’t know even know why this was ever written.  I grabbed it because I had seen it promoted and it sounded halfway interesting, but really it’s a memoir about someone not-super-interesting under the guise of self-help teaching us how to talk to our friends?

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A classic that had been recommended to me, I found this to be super weird, oddly hilarious, and definitely a lot of fun.  I probably missed half of it though, so I should read it again a time or two just to catch every fun detail of this oddball translated Russian novel about the devil and his cohorts paying a visit to Moscow (and the chaos that ensues).

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The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
While the others I would maybe recommend to specific readers, this would be a novel I would recommend more universally to anyone looking for an incredible story.  Kidd imagines Jesus’s wife and what she might’ve been like as a women seeking her own voice in that time, as well as what Jesus would have been like as a husband (and she handles it so beautifully, with a can’t-miss Author’s Note at the end.)

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Up Next:  I'm reading a really dull non-fiction that I've actually considered abandoning, but I guess I won't - I hate to do that unless I really have to!  On my phone, though, I'm reading a really depressing book.  So....  hopefully they both get better!