The Sunday Post #173

I hope your Thanksgiving is great (again).

The Sunday Post is hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s 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.

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On The Blog Last Week

• On Tuesday I showed you some Great American Reads that I haven’t read.
• On Thursday we talked about bad decisions.
• On Saturday I reviewed Vengeful by V.E. Schwab. (Spoiler alert: I loved it.)

On The Blog This Week

• On Tuesday I spread blogger love. (Blogger love is not a disease, I promise.)
• On Thursday I do The Nightmare Before Christmas Tag.
• On Saturday I mini review two Mackenzi Lee books.

In My Reading Life

Last week, I finished Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington. It was okay. I learned a lot about snake-handling religions. The book was pretty repetitive, though. I got the impression that the author didn’t have enough material to fill a whole book.

Right now, I’m reading Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater. I’m struggling with this one, guys. The information is interesting, but the writing style is turgid. The writing would be tolerable in fiction, but when you dump flowery writing on science, it just obscures the science. The author also spends most of the book talking about herself. I want to hear about the scientists! I don’t care that the author went apple-picking with her daughter. I’m on the fence about DNFing this one.

In My Internet Stalking Life

• Do you want to read contemporary fiction but don't know where to start? Melanie @ Melanie Loves Fiction has recommendations.
• Wendy @ Falconer's Library is talking about Latvia. Head over to Wendy's blog if you want to learn something.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. I finally saw Love, Simon! I liked it. I’m happy that the movie people didn’t completely screw up the book. It deserved to be made into a good movie.
2. Hanging out with friends. I put a lot of energy into avoiding other humans, but sometimes it’s fun to laugh about stupid stuff with people who “get” you.
3. Coconut cream pie.
4. Fluffy prairie dogs. I know that prairie dogs are plague-carrying rodents, but they’re cute in winter. Like little balls of brown fluff.
5. Looking up Thanksgiving recipes. No more disaster turkeys! I want to make something this year that people actually want to eat.

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