Keep going 086: Books + Jokes

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Feb 26, 2025

👋🏽 Hello everyone!

I feel like it took me 27 weeks to recover from the busy-ness of December and January, and now it’s suddenly the end of February and there is Easter candy in the stores. Don’t get me wrong, mini-Cadbury eggs are a delight, but I missed out on cinnamon jelly hearts, and that’s just a sad thing.

It’s also my favorite time of year (aside from Red Zone season, of course): patio weather! It’s supposed to be in the 70s for at least the next week or two - and though I do love patio weather, I also feel sort of pressured to go outside and DO things. My passively-aggressive rebelliousness makes me sort of belligerent about it all. FINE, I’ll go outSIDE, but only because I want to, and NOT because it’s beautiful out there.

What have you all been up to? I’ve been…

📚 Reading

Worst Case Scenario - I don’t even remember what this is about, so I’d say it probably wasn’t that great. I didn’t even highlight anything. Why did I finish it? 🤷🏽‍♀️
Onyx Storm - The third book in the dragon-school series (also, why are they still in school? Just leave already), still fun, but a little long, with a little too many sudden cliffhangers at the end. Still, I sobbed. Twice. — I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands. (fans herself) 😅
Children of Time - I’ve been reading this for over a year. I’m not sure why I read it so slowly, but when I got to the last section, I could not put it down. It is SO smart - space and evolution and sentience and war and survival and SPIDERS. It’s the first in the series, but I might just stop here for a few years. — You can never know. That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
The Wedding People - I LOVED this book. I flew through it in two days - so messy and beautiful and thoughtful and inspiring. — Some people don’t ask for what they need. Some people are like religious children that way, mistaking suffering with goodness.
Wrong Place Wrong Time - Super fun and thoughtful, still managed to surprise me with some twists, and I do love a good time travel situation. — “Life’s too long for work.” Life’s too long. That’s so clever.
Funny Story - I feel like all of Emily Henry’s stories are so similar - slow burn, together-apart-together, and everyone manages to have very insightful understandings of their own emotional issues. I can skim these books now and still be mostly entertained; it’s a good, light read. — If you don’t give other people responsibility for your feelings, you can have a decent relationship with most of them.