Life: It Goes On - June 29

Happy Monday evening! This past week was not an intentional break at all. Started last week with a nasty cold that turned into almost a week of sinus headache and I've been almost useless unless it absolutely had to get done. At least I did get some reading done, so there's that. 

The Last Two Weeks I: 

Listened To: M.L. Stedman's A Far-Flung Life and Susan Jane Gilman's Undress Me In The Temple of Heaven. Today I started John Green's Everything Is Tuberculosis. 

Watched: More soccer than I've watched in all the rest of my life combined. Also, The Penguin Lessons, starring Steve Coogan, which is based on a true story of the same name written by Tom Michell. Coogan plays Michell, who saves a penguin in Uruguay and then the penguin decides to bond to him. Michell ends up taking the penguin back to Argenitina, where he is teaching in the 1970's, and the penguin helps him become a better teacher and better person. We both really liked it a lot and would recommend it.

Read: I finished Peter Geye's A Lesser Light and Monica Wood's How To Read A Book. Yesterday I started Dolen Perkins-Valdez's latest, Happy Land. This is my fourth of Perkins-Valdez's books, having previously read Wench, Balm, and Take My Hand. 

Made: BLTs and blt salad, homemade Mac and cheese, stir fry, smoothies. Mostly easy, comfort food. It will be much more of the same this week, what with the heat wave we've just started. 

Enjoyed: Book club friends and I went to hear Lisa See promote her latest book, Daughters of The Sun and Moon. Learned a lot; she does a great job. We followed that with dinner and drinks and it was such good therapy. 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: Miss H is coming up tomorrow night to pick up a new car and will be spending the night and a chunk of Wednesday here so I've taken Wednesday off to spend with her and I'm hoping to get through some more of the things she's still got at my house. 

Thinking About: How to celebrate the Fourth. 

Feeling: Still lethargic but at least able to finally convince myself to get some things done. 

Looking forward to: See Planning. We haven't seen Miss H since Christmas! 

Question of the week: I feel like this has been a banner 12 months for books and I'm struggling to keep up with the ones I want to read. What's one book you've read in the past 12 months that you can't recommend enough? What's one you'd suggest I skip?