Friday Reads 9/27/2024

It's Friday! What are we going to do today, Brain? Same thing we do every day Pinky. Talk about books! If you are not familiar with Pinky and the Brain, that will seem like mad ramblings. Which, honestly, is par for the course around here. Anyway, here are my reading plans.

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy - This is about a family from East Detroit. The parents bought this house when the neighborhood was actually nice. They raised their 13 (!) children there. Now, the father is dead and mom is living with the oldest son and the kids are arguing over what to do with the house. It's really mostly about just a couple of the kids. The oldest and the youngest and one in the middle somewhere. I'm not even a third of the way through it. I don't know if I'm going to finish it by the end of the month. It will get read. It is one of the oldest books on my shelves AND it meets the challenge to read a debut book by an author.

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu - This is still waiting patiently. I don't think it will take long to read if I get some good reading time. It's short and it's supposed to be pretty funny. Also, I have good luck with National Book Award winners.

I guess I need to figure out how to get more reading time in. I still have 8 challenges from the Booklist Queen's Reading Challenge to finish. I have read 76 of the 100 books for my reading goal. And I still have, like, 20 books to read from my shelves. I CAN read 8 books a month, but I'm not sure how that's going to play out in the busiest months of the year. And one of them that I have to read is a chunker.

If I want to be left alone while I read, I have to hide. If I sit in my comfy reading spot on the couch, people talk to me. I can read maybe 2 pages before someone comes looking for me to tell me something. I'm happy my family wants to tell me things, but me-reading does not equal me-not-doing-anything. /rant

Tomorrow I will share my October reading plans.