Friday Reads 8/30/2024

Today it rained. The high temp is forecasted to be 10 degrees cooler than yesterdays. This is set to last at least a week. Dear Reader, I believe we are in False Fall. In Oklahoma that means we will have early Fall weather for a week or ten days and then it will be 98 and humid again before we get actual Fall.

What does the weather have to do with books and reading? Well, it's a whole lot easier to focus on a book when you aren't dripping with sweat. I hate summer. I am an indoor cat. No reading by the pool for me. But reading on my back porch with a blanket is for me.

Anyway, let's talk about what I'm reading.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - I am officially halfway through this. It's very good, but it's sad. This poor dumb girl married for love and then found out his kind of love is not the same. It is literally a "I will fix him" situation. When her aunt is trying to convince her that he is not a good guy, she says, "I will lead him to goodness with my love." When he isn't interested, she gets hurt. I'm a little anxious about what's coming because at some point she takes their son and runs away, and that precipitating event must have been pretty bad.

Chronicles of My Alien Invasion Life by Jes McCutchen - I'm also officially half way through this one. We start out with 5 teenagers. They go to an old mine quarry that has been filled with water to go swimming. One kid goes through a portal and one breaks a bunch of bones. No one else saw the one go through the portal, so they think the one who did must have hit his head. Somehow aliens get introduced and our main character thinks the portal jumper is in an alien dimension. Another kid figures out how to communicate with some contraption and then goes on the run. Where I'm at, the three remaining kids are heading to homecoming when the one on the run jumps in front of their car bleeding profusely and says they have to go to the quarry. We'll see what happens next.

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - Guess what! I'm also half way through this one. What are the odds? Our kind-of-a-hot-mess main character turns up at her brother's apartment in Paris and he's not there. He said he would be so she's concerned. 2 days later he hasn't turned up and she is learning some very weird things about the neighbors. The chapters are very short which makes it easy to just read one more, over and over again. I will probably finish this one this weekend.

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - After I finish Paris Apartment, I'll probably pick this one up. I feel like it will be a quick read and I liked the other TJR book I read. This is a fake interview with a fake band that is not very loosely based on Fleetwood Mac.

And there you go! I think the Paris Apartment might be the only one I finish in August, but maybe not. My weekend doesn't start until Sep 1.