Thirty-One
Currently reading:
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
I know I said getting this in the mail didn’t count as adding to the Moratorium Library, but reading it still counts as a book from the Library being read. I don’t make the rules. (I literally do make the rules, including this one.)
Books finished this week: 1
★★★☆☆
Where this book came from: Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis
Why this book: To be completely honest, I thought it was going to be about vampires. Then I read the summary before purchasing and figured demons/monsters were close enough.
Thoughts: Not going to lie, this one took a lot longer to finish than I expected and I did not love it the way I thought I would. It felt slow and bloated in a way that made it tough for me to want to pick it up. I just kind of felt disheartened every time I started reading again and realized I had hundreds of pages left. The world-building was interesting and the horror elements were definitely gross when they needed to be, but I didn’t feel a lot of life in the words.
Library updates:
I turned thirty-one last week. That’s the reason for the lack of missive last weekend——getting older, and also celebration. Overall, it was a good birthday. The weekend didn’t go quite to plan and my actual day was very quiet, so thirty-one started a little rocky, but I have faith it will even out from here.
I feel better prepared to face the year ahead than perhaps I have in years past. I feel more set in my ways, in a way that I attribute to confidence rather than stubbornness. I’m doing what I want to do with my life and I feel good owning that, at long last. I don’t beat myself up about sometimes wanting to do absolutely nothing, or not wanting to wear makeup, or not wearing a cute outfit. And when I want to go out and do something, I know what that feels like in my brain and my heart, and I do it. I think I’m finally learning to just listen to myself.
What else, what else . . . ? I went in a hotel rooftop pool twice, once in a rainstorm and once on a beautiful spring day. (March weather is bizarre.) I looked at orchids at the botanical garden with a friend (hi, Tori!). I took a sick day this week and it revived me. I’m trying to cook more and spend less money. I’m not restricting my expenditures when it comes to entertainment, just with ordering takeout. I finished Daisy Jones and the Six and thought it was fine——not ’70s enough. I think my therapist is ghosting me? And I finally started watching Succession. I am, as always, late to the party.
Not too much else I care to share this week, so sorry it’s a short one! Until next time, take care of yourselves, tell me what you’re reading, and maybe/hopefully I’ll have another book review for you next week.
Closing thoughts:
Do what makes you happy, and try not to worry what other people might think.
