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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 #363

On The Blog Recently

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In My Reading Life

I finished a book! My reading has been disappointingly slow lately, so that's an accomplishment.

I read Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller, and it was disturbing! It's probably one of the most disturbing books I've ever read.

In 1970s England, a father abducts his eight-year-old daughter and takes her to a cabin in the German woods. He convinces her that the world has ended, and they're the only two people left alive. They stay in the woods for nine years. Then the daughter stumbles across a man who says he lives on the other side of the river. Death ensues.

This book is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly it's disturbing because it's so believable. Recently, in my part of the world, an entire family froze to death while trying to survive winter in the wilderness. Their bodies were found in a tent when the snow melted. That must have been a painful way to die because living off the land isn't easy.

The fictional father and daughter in Our Endless Numbered Days face cold and starvation and wildfires. They also have to survive each other. They're both quite volatile. 

The author is a beautiful writer and great at developing realistic characters. There are a few plot twists that I should have seen coming but didn't. I was shocked by the ending.

My biggest issue is the book's pacing. It's so slow! The book is nearly 400 pages and didn't need to be that long. Whenever I put it down, I wasn't super motivated to pick it back up because nothing was happening. Well, until the end. The end is intense.

If you like wilderness survival stories and can handle reading about child abuse and violent death, then I recommend this one. It'll leave an impression.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. So much reality TV. I'm caught up on Survivor, Amazing Race, UK Traitors, and Physical 100. Maybe TV is the reason why I haven't been finishing books.
2. The weather was nice enough that most of the blizzard snow melted. I went for lots of walks.
3. It was my birthday. I'm another year closer to death! We went to the expensive BBQ place to celebrate, which is always a good time. It's award-winning BBQ, and it's so expensive that we can only go once a year, but it's worth it.
4. My job gave me a 4+ hour training course about the computer program that I've been using for years. It's hilarious that they were finally like, "You use this every day. You should probably learn how to do it correctly." According to the instructor, I did very well for being (mostly) self-taught.
5. Here's this week's Skunkumentary. It's the "Rabbits With Zoomies" edition. I was excited for a minute because I was seeing fewer skunks on the videos, but it turns out that they just dug a new hole. I saw them again when I moved the camera. My dad put a bag of skunk repellant in front of the new hole, but that didn't stop the skunks for very long.

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