Friday Reads on Saturday 8-9-2025

I left my planner at home, and also I thought it was Saturday all day yesterday, so it didn't even cross my mind that I should post. This is why I keep a planner.

Anyway, not much has changed from last week. Hopefully by next week I will have something new to say.

The Country of Ice Cream Star Sandra Newman - This is starting to go somewhere. Ice Cream has been captured by a large group of Spanish speaking people in New York City who have made here their god, Maria. It's not a long-term position and some of her "apostles" are already trying to kill her off. She is trying to convince them to go to Washington and fight those people (Russians, I think they said) to get the cure for "the posies" sickness that kills off all of these people before they are 20 years old. This entire society is children. It's hard to remember that all these characters out here acting like grown folk are actually just kids. I'm over 60% through this one now. I'm hoping the faster pace of the story makes it read faster.

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel by Claudia L. Johnson - I actually got a few minutes to sit down and read this one on my day off Thursday. I finished the chapter I was on, then had to go back and read most of the chapter again to remember what it was about. A little progress is still progress.

The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan - I'm still holding out hope that I'll get to this one soon. I'm focusing on Ice Cream Star with the goal of finishing something, anything, so I can move on.

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by singNsong - This came in for me at the library. I read the first one and was kind of iffy on how I felt about it. I got the second one hoping it will help me decide one way or the other. I will probably try to read this this weekend just to catch up with my goal.

Goodreads says I'm 4 books behind my goal. Ouch. It's this super long, difficult book! I should have known when I started it and it had this weird vernacular, that it would slow me down.

So there are my weekend reading plans. Eddy Hood at The Read Well Podcast is doing a Reading Challenge for 7 days. The challenge is to have a book with you at all times so you can read at any opportune moment that crops up. But I'm not carrying that massive tome around with me. My bags are heavy enough as it is.

If I was reading a smaller book I would probably try it.