The Sunday Post #230

The Sunday Post is a chance to recap the past week, talk about next week, tell you what I’m reading, and share news. I’m linking up with The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Readerbuzz, and Book Date.

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The Sunday Post #230

On The Blog Last Week

• On Tuesday I showed you some upcoming book releases that I hope to read.
• On Saturday there was a book haul.

On The Blog This Week

• On Tuesday we talk about the adult books that are coming out in the next six months.
• On Thursday I copy every other book blogger and do The Mid-Year Freak Out Tag.

In My Reading Life

It was an excellent reading week! I read a lot and enjoyed all of it.

I finished Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith. It’s a poetry collection. I’m not the smartest person, so some of the poems are too abstract for me and zoomed right over my head. The ones I understood are brilliant. The people in the poems are extremely conscious of their own mortality and are searching for joy in their short lives. The collection tackles depressing subjects (like gun violence and disease), but it’s a hopeful book. The author imagines happy futures for people with unhappy pasts and illustrates how important it is for Black children to see healthy, cheerful Black characters in movies. If you’re new to poetry, this is a good place to start. There’s a variety of poetry styles in this book.

Then my library hold for Becoming by Michelle Obama finally came in! I got the audiobook and recommend it because the author narrates it herself. I liked hearing her tell her own story. Memoirs are hard to review because how do I rate a person’s life? Overall, I enjoyed the book. I loved learning about the behind-the-scenes stuff that happens during campaigns and at the White House. Also, Michelle Obama makes me feel lazy. How does one person accomplish all that stuff? When does she sleep?

Baby Brooklyn and I read Barnyard Dance! by Sandra Boynton. We had too much fun with this book. It’s written like a song that describes how each animal is dancing. Why are the animals dancing? I have no idea, but we danced along with them. Be grateful you weren’t around to see that. It was probably mortifying. We are not good dancers.

Right now, I’m reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I guess it’s okay. I feel kind of confused and ambivalent about it currently.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. I went for a walk and somehow ended up at a really old barn. I like old buildings, so it was a nice place to wander around.
2. Playing with the baby. She’s 16 months old and becomes more interesting (and more exhausting) every day.
3. I repeated a yoga workout that was difficult for me a few months ago. I must be improving at yoga because the workout was less awful than I remember.
4. New books!
5. I ate a chocolate chip muffin. And then I managed to burn off all the calories in a chocolate chip muffin.

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