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

 

The Sunday Post #249

 

 

 

 

Public Service Announcement

 

I love the holidays and want to spread holiday cheer. (We could all use some cheer in 2020, right?) I’m giving away a $100 Book Depository shopping spree. The winner can choose whichever books they want! The giveaway is open internationally, as long as Book Depository ships to your country for free.

Click here to enter the giveaway. Please enter! Entering is good for my self-esteem.

 

 

On The Blog Recently

 

• I talked about the best nonfiction books I’ve read in 2020 (so far).
• I wrapped up October.
• I talked about new November book releases.
• There’s a super fun giveaway!

 

 

 

 

On The Blog This Week

 

• On Tuesday I talk about the best baby and toddler books I’ve read in 2020.

 

 

 

 

In My Reading Life

 

My reading and blogging have been terrible lately because I got sick. Not with that disease. I’m fine. I’ve just been watching a lot of BookTube and being lazy.

I finished In The Shadow Of Blackbirds by Cat Winters and loved it. It’s young adult historical horror set during the 1918 flu pandemic. Even though it takes place during a plague, I didn’t find it stressful to read. I actually liked seeing characters wearing masks. It makes me feel less alone ‘cause NO ONE wears their masks around here. Ridiculous people. Anyway, I would have been obsessed with this novel as a teenager. It has a fast-paced plot and includes real historical photos of life during the pandemic. The story is about a teenage girl who starts seeing ghosts after a near-death experience. When her boyfriend is killed under mysterious circumstances, his ghost comes to her for help. Since I’m an adult reader, I found some of the plot twists predictable, but that didn’t stop me from frantically turning pages. I desperately wanted to know what happened next. It was a lot of fun to read.

 

Then Nonfiction November began! I read Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump. The author is Donald Trump’s niece and a clinical psychologist. I have mixed feelings about this one. It’s very short. It was interesting to track Donald Trump’s family history backward and discover how his family became rich and famous. Since the author is a psychologist, she gives her theories about why Donald sometimes acts like a 74-year-old toddler. I have mixed feelings about the book because the author is clearly angry at her family. She was abused by them, so she has every right to be angry, but I wondered if her anger impacted her objectivity. Also, the book is very narrowly focused on the Trump family. Since the subtitle mentions “the world,” I expected more discussion of how society creates families like the Trumps and why people are so obsessed with them. This definitely isn’t a bad memoir. I found the family history fascinating, but my reaction to finishing it was, “I need more. Where’s the rest?”

 

Right now, I’m reading two chunky nonfiction books. First is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story Of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore. It’s about a group of female factory employees who worked with radium in the early 1900s. The factory owners knew that radium was deadly, but they refused to admit it, even when the women were dying horribly from radium poisoning. My other book is equally depressing! It’s Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City by Matthew Desmond. This book is infuriating. Slum landlords and American politicians need to do better.

 

In The Rest Of My Life

 

Five things that made me happy recently:

 

1. The US election is (mostly? Somewhat? Hopefully?) over! I’m looking forward to talking about something besides the election. I’m tired. America rocked at voting, though. That was a lot of votes to count. Nicely done, fellow citizens.
2. It was my dad’s birthday. I got him a book, of course.
3. I’ve now done yoga every day for 9 months. I even did it when I was dizzy and queasy.
4. It’s Secret Santa time! I apologize to everybody who follows me on Twitter. That’s all I’ve been Tweeting about. I love stalking my Secret Santa partner’s social media and trying to find perfect gifts for her.
5. Thank you to everyone who has entered my giveaway so far!

 

 

 

 

My Disease Is Not Contagious! (I Don’t Think? I'm Not A Doctor.)

 

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Take care of yourselves and be kind to each other. See you around the blogosphere!