Friday Reads 9/8/2023

Today is Husbandface's birthday! That means I have a busy weekend ahead of me with not much time for reading. Today I took the day off work, but will be mostly doing whatever hubby wants to do. I work Saturday. Sunday I have a date with my mom and then various church rehearsals. Monday I have 2 doctor's appointments. So much for a weekend. Anyway, here's what I'm reading.

Bitch In a Bonnet by Robert Rodi - This is not what I thought it was. Basically, Rodi is going through these three books, five chapters at a time, and retelling the stories in modern language. Sometimes he points out something interesting Austen did with the writing or the characters, but mostly it's just a humorous translation. I took a couple of days off from it to readjust my expectations and now I'm enjoying it a lot more.

Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest - I am enjoying this and it reads pretty quickly. It's giving me Stephanie Plum vibes, so that's nice. I like our main character Leda and her best friend, Niki. So far, the detective has worked out that she's psychic and she has agreed to help him investigate a cold case. Then she went to a bar and did Clairvoyant Karaoke, where she asks the audience to let her hold something they brought with them and then she sings whatever song comes to her that might be relevant to that item's owner. This is my book I keep at work for lunches and slow evenings.

It has just occurred to me that I did not put nearly enough fiction on my September TBR. This could be a slog!

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy - I think this is the precursor to another book on my TBR called Empire of Pain, about the Sackler family and the pharmaceutical company that makes Oxycontin. If I think about the Bitch in a Bonnet book as fiction, since it's basically just Austen's novels, it won't feel like I'm reading a bunch of deep nonfiction.

I finished a book I was listening to in the car and started listening to the one I listened to on the way to Chicago. After skipping through a couple of chapters that kind of grossed me out, I decided to dump that book. I listened to the first 5% of another book and decided that one needs to be read with my eyes.

I just scrolled through my Libro.fm app and found an audiobook for The Woman In the Library by Sulari Gentill which is a retelling of Agatha Christie's The Body In the Library.

So there you have it. 2 at home books. 1 work book. 1 audiobook.