The Sunday Post #209

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The Sunday Post is hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and The Sunday Salon is hosted by Readerbuzz. They’re a chance to recap the past week, talk about next week, and share news. It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? is hosted by Book Date. I get to tell you what I’ve read recently. This post contains affiliate links. I earn a commission from qualifying purchases.

Public Service Announcement

Read All The Things! needs a new header. Since I’m completely hopeless at art stuff, I set up a poll where you can vote on potential headers. The whole blog will be getting a makeover, so it doesn’t matter how the new header looks with the current design. Just pick your favorite. I can’t promise I’ll pick the most popular design, but I’d love to know what you think. Click here to vote.

On The Blog Last Week

• On Tuesday I presented my Christmas book haul.

On The Blog This Week

• On Tuesday I show you some upcoming middlegrade releases that I’m excited about.
• On Wednesday we talk about the books coming out in the first half of February.

In My Reading Life

I did it! It took me two months, but I finally finished Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole. Last week, I read tales from North America, the Caribbean and West Indies, and Central and South America. My favorite tale from North America is “The Girl Who Married A Ghost” (Nisqualli Tribe). It’s about a woman whose life becomes immensely more complicated when she discovers that her new husband is a ghost. My favorite story from the Caribbean and West Indies is “Bouki Rents A Horse” (Haiti). The moral of that story: Be careful who you scam. They might be scamming you back. I had a few favorites from Central and South America. I liked “Brer Rabbit, Businessman” (Costa Rica). It stars a rabbit who casually murders housewives for $2 each. I also liked “The Deer And The Jaguar Share A House” (Brazil). It’s about choosing your roommates wisely.

I finished Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover. This book is complicated and brilliant and lives up to the hype! It’s a memoir that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The author had a scary childhood. She was raised in a survivalist compound by her religious extremist parents. They didn’t believe in sending their children to school or in taking them to hospitals to treat potentially deadly emergencies. I had to keep reminding myself that this is a true story. I don’t know how the author survived.

My only tiny complaint about the book is that I wish the author had waited longer to write it. I think if she had more distance from the events, her conclusions/attitudes would have been more solid and mature.

Right now, I’m reading Nevermoor: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend. It’s hugely entertaining so far. I have laughed many times. It reminds me of a cross between the Harry Potter series and Alice In Wonderland.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. My reading week was excellent. I finished the folktales book! Finally. Educated and Nevermoor are awesome too.
2. Is anyone watching The Outsider on HBO? I don’t know how I feel about it yet, but I’m very interested. I haven’t read the book. (*Gasp!* Yes, I am watching the show before I read the book.)
3. The baby can walk now! She took her first steps, and they were hilarious. She walks with her hands in the air and her legs rigid. It's more of a waddle than a walk.
4. Thank you to everyone who has already voted in my new header poll.
5. I randomly joined the Pondathon Readathon because everybody else was joining. I didn’t want to be left out. It’s the most complicated readathon I’ve ever participated in. It’s been fun, though. For some reason, I had to create a pond character to be my readathon avatar. This is my character. She’s a fish named Crispy Batter. She looks delicious, but she’ll cut you with her magic dagger. I’m not sure why she exists. Because she’s awesome, I guess.

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