Time // 10:30 a.m. Place // At my desk in cold, rainy rural Minnesota. Eating // A fried egg on toast with extra sharp cheddar cheese with a side of cherries. I’m still obsessed. Drinking // Good Earth Cocoa Chai Tea. Reading // I’ve been a rather indecisive reader all week. I finished two books [...]
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Time // 10:00 a.m. Place // At my desk, again. Eating // Cinnamon Cheerios and cherries (cherries finally went on sale this week and they are SO GOOD). Drinking // Black tea and water. Reading // I finished a bunch of books this week, although aside from The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (which I liked a [...]
Time // 9:45 a.m., although I’ve already been up for two hours today…
Place // At my desk
Eating // Apples, Wheat Thins and cheddar cheese
Drinking // Black tea
Reading // It feels like I read a lot this week, but when I went to check in on Goodreads it turns out I only finished one book — The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown (out June 4 from Viking Books). But that one book was such a good read, it was totally worth it. I’m a junkie for sports nonfiction, so The Boys in the Boat, a story about the 1936 Olympic eight-man rowing team, was just up my alley. I loved it.
Today I’ve been reading The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, which is wonderful in a totally different way. I am really enjoying the twisting in time structure and the way Wolitzer has captured some deep and true things about friendship and achievement and jealousy and love.
Time // 9:30 a.m.
Place // At my desk in my office, again.
Eating // Nothing yet. I am not sure what I want for breakfast today.
Drinking // Black tea, orange flavored, I believe.
Reading // I’ve had a flightly week with my reading. I decided to try something totally different last Sunday afternoon, so I picked up All the President’s Men, an account of the Watergate investigation, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The book is very, very “inside baseball” when it comes to politics and reporting, but I’m really enjoying it so far.
But I’ve also be dipping in and out of several other books — I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag by Jennifer Gilbert, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, and Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, to name a few. I haven’t had much time to read this week, so I haven’t gotten very far in any of them. I’m hoping this week will be a little less frenetic… but that’s not looking likely.
