Keeping things positive here on the blog as we (meaning all of us) are surrounded by fear and worry at the moment.
So let’s see, what should I talk about? I’m reading Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love and enjoying it immensely. I’m also reading Lars Kepler’s The Hypnotist. I rarely do this, but I’m going back and forth between the two. We’re watching Season 3 of Babylon Berlin for a second time. I’m currently drinking my second cup of Peet’s French Roast and writing this post rather hurriedly, so we can go out and buy some of the Gardein Brand Frozen Vegan Entrees that we use a lot in our dinners (Don always adds ingredients to concoct his “specialities.”) Time to restock before we officially lay very low over the next weeks.
I heard more Peepers last night. Not as many as there will be in a few weeks, but they’re there. I also heard the bullfrog that lives in the pond. All signs of Spring. I’m looking forward to starting cleanup outside, but realistically, that won’t happen for a couple of weeks. I want to make sure there are no more nights where the temps drop below freezing.
Since I plan on doing a lot of reading over the next month, it seems a good time to ask my favorite question: What are you reading?
Stay safe, my friends.
Happy Thursday.
I am reading a biography of Dorothy Day by John Randolph
I am not a Catholic but she is a woman that I truly admire. A selfless woman trying to help the poor. She is indeed an example of what Jesus would want us to be. Material goods did not matter to her in the least. Just an amazing woman tryin to help the poor.I think by the grace of God I am not the poor
She sounds like the kind of person we all strive to be but never quite become. Bless her. Thanks, Linda.
Dorothy Day has been my hero since I learned of her as a schoolgirl in the late 1950s, not just for her work with the poor, but for her unflinching pacificism. I was privileged to hear her speak, once at Notre Dame when I was in college, and a few years later in Boston. Claudia, you may be interested to learn she was a great mystery reader.
How wonderful that you got to hear her speak, Margaret!
I am reading The Girl Next Door by Willow Rose. This is the 5th and next to last book in her Jack Ryder series. Keeps me on the edge of my seat. Love all of her books so far. By my bed I have Burning Bridges Along The Susquehanna by Paul Nelson. Just started this one last night and seems to be a good read so far. Here in eastern NC our dogwood trees are budding. The azalea and blue berry bushes are blooming. Our daffodils have bloomed and gone. Not much of a winter this year and dread the heat and humidity around the corner.
Enjoy your reading, Peggy. Sounds lovely!
I am reading The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power. She’s a very good writer but it is taking me awhile to get it finished. I don’t know why I have more trouble reading non–fiction than I do fiction. It’s very informative and well written.
Next, I will read The Burning Room by Michael Connelly. I took your advice and read one by him last month and really enjoyed it, so I will try another one.
I also discovered Elin Hilderbrand who writes novels about people on Nantucket. The Castaways, Silver Girl and Winter Street.
Oh! and I just finished Anonymous which was better than I thought it would be. Lots of good campaign material there for the Dems.
I also have more trouble with non-fiction! But I’m making an effort to read more of it.
Everything on your list sounds compelling, Marilyn. Enjoy!
For a couple of days I’ve been trying to get into Kate Atkinson’s Transcription, without success. Not giving up yet, but not getting hooked with it, either. It’s probably just my mood and not the story.
I really liked it, but I understand. Sometimes it’s just plain hard to get into something. Thanks, Shanna!
I tried Transcription also with no luck. Just couldn’t get into it. Am now reading The Peacock Emporium by JoJo Moyes and The Glittering Hour.
Trying to stay sort of positive with all of the leader’s BAD behavior! Boy, is he making a mess of things…:(
He sure is. And he still blames everyone else – what else is new? Thanks, Priscilla!
I have come to understand I read “comfort books” when times are trying. I am reading Tara Road by Maeve Binchey. Next is Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg and then is Becoming Mrs. Lewis: the improbable love story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis. I have 6 more TBR books from the library. One of my biggest worries is if the library closes down…..
The idiot just keeps reinforcing his idiocy which is no surprise. Keep the UK open where he has a huge golf club to keep going, blame all the foreign countries for this and not account for his and his administration’s blunders in not testing the 10s of thousands who should have been tested so it keeps spreading. It is merely spreading faster as he blathers on and on and on and on. My hope is that at some point as he is vomiting his non-facts, someone, ANYONE, from the CDC standing behind him GRABS THE MICROPHONE and says “NO, YOU ARE WRONG”…. will it ever happen??
Can’t wait to see all the things people are reading so I can increase my list to sustain me over the next weeks, months….. always my fav post that you do!!
They’ve known about it since January. There’s no excuse. The only reason he gave that press conference is because his numbers are slipping and he wants to get reelected. I don’t know why someone won’t just step forward. We’re talking about lives here!
Thanks, Chris.
I just finished Ruth Reichl’s “Comfort Me with Apples”(which also includes some great sounding recipes at the end of chapters.) A fun memoir and change of pace from mysteries. Celebrating Christmas in March with my Canadian friend this week and since we both love books, I suspect I will wait to start another till we open presents!
I just started her latest – Save Me the Plums – describing how she became the editor of Gourmet magazine. It is a lot of fun!
I read Save Me the Plums…fun read!!
Enjoy your time with your friend, Jeanie! Thank you.
I’ve read several of her books and really enjoyed them!
I’ve been confined to home due to illness, so am reading in between napping. Searching my stacks of TBR for something light. Read ‘Interior Motives’ by Ginny Aiken (A Deadly Decor Mystery)..really silly book. ‘Where They Found Her’ by Kimberly McCreight – a twisting mystery. 2 more chapters to read with grandson in ‘The Sign of the Beaver’ 1983 book by Elizabeth George Spears (recommended by Sara, Memories on Clover Lane blog). Forget the name of one that went in trash can after 1 chapter! Now Reading one you might enjoy if you’ve not already read ‘Howards End Is On the Landing’, a Year of Reading from home by Susan Hill , pub.2009. How the author went searching her bookshelves for an elusive book and all her book discoveries and the memories they brought . She is English writer.
I’m sorry you are ill, Jan. I hope you recover soon.
I have Howard’s End. I read it a couple of years ago and loved it. She has another one about books, too. I love books about books! Thanks, Jan.
Last night I started “I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” by Erika Sanchez and got through about 60 pages before my eyes closed. So far so good. I had been reading “The Gown” by Jennifer Robson but quit that one! I had hoped to read about the making of Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown, but instead the book was more like a soap opera. Disappointing. Also reading “The Body” by Bill Bryson and enjoying it.
Love Bill Bryson. It’s always tough when a much looked forward to book turns out disappointing! Thanks, Vera.
I’m retreating into comfort books these days and am working my way through rereadings of Hilda Lawrence’s mysteries. There’s just a handful of them, written in the 1940s, wish there were more. I need to splurge on newer copies as all mine are in wretched shape. The Handmaid’s Tale is in my TBR pile as I haven’t read it in years, but it cuts too close to home for me to want to pick it up right now.
I haven’t heard of that author. I’ll have to investigate!
Yes, some books definitely cut to close to home lately. I find I can’t pick them up.
Thank you!
She’s not easy to find. All my copies are from the used section of Houston’s Murder by the Book; there are copies online and I’m going to have to grit my teeth and order. There are very few and three of them, featuring a PI of sorts named Mark East, should be read sequentially: Blood Upon the Snow, A Time to Die and Death of a Doll. They stand alone, but there are continuing characters.
Thank you so much for the information. I’m going to write the book titles down in my Filofax. xo
I have just started The Witches’ Tree – an Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton. This is my first time reading one of her books, so I hope I enjoy it!
I’ve read a few and enjoyed them, Carol. Thank you!
I’m making a determined effort to read books that friends have kindly lent to me.
They are The Private Patient by P.D. James, the only one of her Inspector Adam Dalgleish novels that I haven’t read. I can highly recommend her writing mostly from the 70s and 80s. She is similar to another favourite author – Ruth Rendell who also wrote crime thrillers under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
Tangerine by Christine Mangan, set in Tangiers in 1956 and supposedly similar to Patricia Highsmith.
The Silent Companions by Sarah Purcell, gothic novel which has been at my bedside for at least two years!
Happy Thursday
P.S. I’ve left an explanation of NATO alphabet in Wednesday’s post 😀
I’ve read nearly all of P.D. James and got to meet her when she made an appearance in Cambridge MA many years ago. I have a signed copy of one of her books (can’t remember which one!)
I have so many books at my bedside that I haven’t started yet, Dee Dee! Thank you.
I am enjoying Mark Twain, A Life by Ron Powers. When the sun is shining and my sunporch cozy warm, I stretch out on my couch and try to read two chapters. It is 635 pages! Ron Powers is an excellent writer, and I think Sam Clemens himself would enjoy this book.
Stay safe everyone.😷
He is a wonderful writer. Enjoy, Janice!
Reading two oldies – “Home” by Toni Morrison and “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The first describes a sad time in our society; the second about life’s phases.
Both were on my must read list, each brief but beautifully written.
You know, I have Gift From the Sea here and have never read it. That will be changed very soon. Thank you, Anne!
I read Gift from the Sea in my young womanhood (early 20s) and I’ve always felt it made a big change in my life to that date; it helped me figure some things out when I was maturing and forming opinions of certain things and how I was looking at the world. Thru the years, some opinions (everybody has an opinion; sigh…) would say that the author was too self-focused or selfish or whatever, but I found real value in reading her; and, Gift from the Sea is of course a very celebrated book from the 50s. Anne Morrow Lindbergh had suffered so much tragedy in her personal life; and it was, in part, a life of controversy, but she certainly had some good credentials (and a way with words).
I’m glad this came up on the blog. I want to read it again. I hope I can find my copy (a lot of my old books are temporarily packed away). Her book is inspirational/calming and I’m not very calm right now nor am I feeling inspired. Today (Friday) was my most anxiety-ridden ‘coronavirus in the news and in our midst’ day (so far) and I can hear myself, feel myself, taking it out on my husband and he just does NOT deserve that; but I know it’s because I’m scared. From time to time, I have tears welling up; just so afraid for everybody, not just myself.
My primary-care doctor re-emphasized via phone today that she doesn’t recommend I leave the house for anything (and indefinite weeks ahead), and I knew this already because of my suppressed immune system, but I don’t feel like I have everything figured out yet about how we’re going to live behind closed doors like moles, although of course everyone is feeling the same way. My doctor and I will be in frequent touch by phone and in lieu of appointments (I have a lot of medical appointments with multiple specialists although she’s the center of it; I’m going to miss some lab stuff, etc. over the next weeks), and that’s per her; so, I’m very grateful.
I guess I’ll figure out the rest as we go.
But along with all the negative emotions of worry, fear, frustration, etc., I’m just so angry; letting myself get riled up (inside). We’re going to lose a lot of people over the next weeks, all because of Trump’s denials and the slow response; and you’re right, they’ve had since January (at least) to get a jump on this emergency. I’ve been saying since Trump got elected that he’s going to get us all killed…i.e. foreign-policy decisions, even those nuclear buttons…but I never dreamed it would be because he didn’t take a pandemic seriously. There’s just no excuse that a big first-world country like the U.S. wouldn’t be prepared for these world-crisis scenarios. Frankly, the administration should have been gathering all the epidemiologists/doctors and scientists/researchers at the end of 2019.
We’re learning a lot about this from news reports and articles; interviews of the experts. We’re listening; Trump wasn’t. He has blood on his hands.
Yes, we learned yesterday that he nixed testing in January because of, of course, himself and his campaign. There are not words to describe the absence of empathy in this man. And lives will be lost because of it.
He does indeed have blood on his hands.
Hello Claudia
Personal life in crisis
Have bought all the Louise Penny books featuring Armand Gamache- and am enjoying his company
Siobhan x
I’m sorry to hear that you are in crisis. Sending love, Siobhan.
Enjoy Louise Penny. She’ll provide a nice escape.
I’m reading The Desert Hedge Murders by Patricia Stoltey. The author chose for her setting the area where I live and work. I am very familiar with the places and cities she describes. I’m enjoying her writing.
It’s always so great to read a book set in an area you know well. Enjoy, Olivia!
Greetings Readers,
I am reading Deep River Night by Patrick Lane also enjoyed The Lost Man by Jane Harper ….. perhaps everyone has already read A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles – if not I highly recommend it as well as the previous mentioned .
Regards to all from BC Canada Carpe Librum
Janine
A Gentleman in Moscow is by far my favorite book of the last few years. I loved every bit of it.
Thanks, Janine!
You stay safe, too, Claudia (and Don)!
Against better judgment (reluctantly), we went out this morning, too, but were home by 11am. Went to p.o. and collected a lot of mail (that was the only place I personally went on this quick excursion; nobody there; hurried in, hurried out); then, for the rest of the morning, I sat in the car while my husband did all the errand-work, God Bless him); dropped off a note to one of my doctors; went to the big-box grocery store for more food and promptly discovered we had a dead battery in our ‘old boat’ of a car, it was humid and about to rain (we get an occasional/brief downpour but the rain has been a real fizzle where we are; so disappointing as we need the rain badly in SoCalif)…and we had all this food that needed to be refrigerated/frozen. Crap.
My husband is very trim and agile (unlike me!) so he had to sprint home on foot (we weren’t TOO far away), get the other car with the jumper cables, got us jumped, we got in the door of the house, and they told me (phone call) my new eyeglasses were ready (which I desperately need at the moment) and that they were closing in 40 minutes UFN at the optometrist’s. (I think we’ll be seeing more of that, temporarily, til things get better figured out in terms of the COVID-19 confusion/concerns/warnings.) We got right back in the car (thankfully the house was quite cold inside for the not-yet-unpacked groceries), zoomed to the eye technician mere blocks away, and I was in & out in like 5 minutes (I didn’t even ask for an adjustment on the frames but didn’t seem to need any; only one person in the lobby and it’s a good-sized eye clinic), raced back home again, I started trying to fit one more thing into the tiny frig while my husband went out to fill two propane tanks for the grill. And I’m now at the computer for five minutes before I am comatose to the world; I only had about 90 minutes of sleep last night, so am going to go take a nap and nurse my asthma.
I think we’re finally ‘in’; this is really it, except for one pharmacy run early tomorrow morning before anybody is in there much; thereafter, we’ve signed up for our drugs to be delivered to the home. Whew. My husband (and I could see this in the parking lot) had really never seen the store so busy except for maybe Christmas or Thanksgiving; somewhat unusual for a weekday morning; I think the big speech to the nation, despite what anyone thinks of how Trump delivered it or all the things he did or didn’t say, definitely changed everything yesterday, as the news reporters are saying. This time, absolutely no paper goods at all (no kleenex, no tp, no paper towels, etc.); no bleach; out of a lot of stuff unless it sold out even earlier before we got there. He said it reminded him of when we lived for a time on the Gulf Coast and there was a raid on shelves because of a coming hurricane. The majority of people in the store were our age; I saw a lot of gray hair and white hair. Except for one red-headed gal likely in her 50s who had two items: A huge jug of water; and a hydrangea in a pot. I guess she knows her priorities!
I think a lot of us feel exhausted and need to chill now (note to self); done everything you can do, now shelter in place as the experts are advising. Indeed read a good book. I had ordered a vintage/secondhand book that was in the mail bag today; it’s all about how to live out of your pantry when you live in a remote area, or when times are tough (a section of how they did it in the Great Depression of the 1930s with only certain staples on hand); lots of creative home cooks (I’ll be thinking of my grandmother, and thumbing thru the pages for tips & guidance as we huddle here on our own special ‘island’ for awhile).
What a time. We have friends stuck on a work exchange in Hungary (they’re from Texas); they’re not getting out; are very worried, feel trapped and said the city they’re in is in the panic-buying mode, too. They’re in the over-60 age group (the types that probably will never retire from some kind of career/work; very busy husband-wife duo). I wonder how many Americans overseas will find themselves in the same predicament.
We were back in a grocery story this morning. It was packed. Everyone had multiple rolls of toilet paper, paper towels, bottled water, supplies, food. They were surely going to run out of tp soon after we left. I bought bleach – I need it anyway – hand lotion, because my hands are so dry from washing them all the time, frozen food, some fresh vegetables. We have a small refrigerator, too, and I literally jammed the final frozen item into the freezer. I’ve never seen our pantry so stocked. It has inspired us to always keep it that way, so I’m going to write up an inventory to have on hand. It’s so pretty that I’m going to take a picture! (Just for me, not for the blog.)
I’m sure the huge crowd was due to the speech last night. Even Trump’s followers finally got the message.
Doug’s daughter and granddaughter, who live in Hong Kong, have been waiting out the coronavirus in London with another sister. They were to travel here next week for a visit, but she has concluded it’s safer to go back to Hong Kong. They have tests available, they’re way ahead of us as to treatment. She feels she’ll be safer there. What does that say about the ineptitude of our government?
I suspect many Americans overseas will be in the same predicament. That’s a terrible feeling – not being able to get home.
Take care of yourself. xo
There’s no reason, really, to buy water: it’s not like a natural disaster when water can be tainted or non-existent. Safe water will still run from the taps!
I can’t speak to that. We have a well. But we don’t know the specific challenges of those people who were buying bottled water. Maybe they don’t like the quality of their tap water or their well water.
I have no understanding about it, but I’ve heard a local here say something about a projection of workers being sick and nobody to run the water treatment plant. But I imagine it stems from the CDC’s (or Red Cross, etc.) in-general preparedness instructions for natural disasters (this is a national disaster!), to have the supply of food & water for at least a couple of weeks if you have to shelter-in-place at home(?). I just remember when I lived in southeast Texas for a time, when a hurricane barely bypassed us and became that horrible one in Homestead, Florida; the news coverage with sweaty-hot/upset people viciously fighting over trucked-in bottles of water before it could even be offloaded. It was anarchy. Of course here in SoCalif, we always have the fear of wildfire and earthquake where our water supply could be affected. I can’t speak to all the details but when we had the particularly-awful fires (they’re all awful) just over two years ago, the pumps/municipal water supply (City water) malfunctioned or were damaged, and a certain, good-sized segment of the town had no access to water. My husband and I are never very good about preparedness for fire and earthquake (we sure are now, for Covid-19) but the one thing we always have made sure of is that we have bottled water, and a good amount of it. For us humans, for my animals; to drink and cook with; bathing, if you had to clean dishes & clothes; etc.
We didn’t get bottled water as we have a well, but we should get some in the next couple of weeks. If we lost power, the well wouldn’t work. But other than that, our water is fine. I absolutely understand why others would stock up on water. Completely!
Smart idea to do an inventory. I was feeling the same thing that I don’t want to waste any of this food; be sure to rotate due to expiration dates; have a good handle on what we’ve got so we know what kinds of meals to come up with over the weeks. (By the way, I’m glad to know that you two like that Gardein brand of frozen entrees; with my husband largely doing the shopping, I miss out on knowing what’s in that frozen case at the grocery store; when I ever have ‘free movement’ again, I want to investigate their offerings!) I have a freestanding pantry shelf on wheels in my diminutive kitchen (woefully small amount of cupboard storage otherwise) and wish I had two of these ‘carts’; but, have to agree, it does feel pretty good to have a fuller pantry of goods, as my husband and I have been so bad about it for too many years (and we live in earthquake country, always needing to be prepared to ‘go it on our own’ for weeks at a time when mobility would be limited due to that kind of natural disaster).
Because I’ve got my head stuck in vintage, makes me wonder how it made my great-grandmothers/grandmothers feel when they’d had a garden in summer, canned their vegetables, were able to put away the food in the cellar to last them thru a winter; would be a comforting feeling to know they could feed their families. Green beans, tomatoes; I wish I knew all of what they canned. I think potatoes and onions kept well in those root cellars. One thing my grandpa did was fish often, off the L.A. ocean piers and, to preserve the fish, he made a smoker. I’m wondering if they had to find ways to get healthier because when my mom was born, she had rickets (1920s) and then pneumonia when she was about three months old; sounds like they had to improve her diet; they lived in the City, although they could keep chickens for eggs and had room for fruit trees and a veggie garden, but much diff from my dad who was out on the prairie and had a milk cow with any variety of grain crops as well. (My mom was pushing toward age 90 when she passed, so things turned out okay for her!)
My Depression-era mother wasted nothing, ever. When anybody would give us fruits from their yard (plums, apples, apricots, peaches), or when my uncle would bring us stuff at the end of market day, like strawberries going over-ripe which he could no longer sell, I can remember my mom at the stovetop with her big pots, long after night had fallen, sterilizing the canning jars and stirring those pots, even when she was really tired and, in summer, really hot at the stove, making sure all that fruit went into preserves/jams; ‘stewed’ whole fruit; applesauce. My aunties on the farm also made pickles, chow-chows; that sort of thing. Even when one of them, in older age, moved to the city, she’d still be making cherry jam and quince jelly from the trees outside her little duplex apartment…the ‘putting away’ of food, having a full larder, was comforting. Of course in other times, it was a hedge against starvation.
About what I said in my other comment: I had to think about what my husband told me, of the people we know (more his acquaintances than mine as they used to work together although we’d see each other socially) who are remaining in Hungary, for now. (They are on a very-long work thing and they rent a home there.) Like, I forgot that the officials & reporters are clarifying that American CITIZENS actually CAN leave Europe (and/or go back & forth[?]; I’m still confused); so, what then, is the prob with these friends feeling or saying they can’t get out of Hungary? Is it that they just can’t get a flight back to the States right now or is it too hard to pull away from their job? I don’t know anything about Hungary and where they are on the outbreak. Whatever, they’re staying (for now), much like what you’ve said about your friend’s daughter. But is sounds uneasy for them. Heck, who isn’t uneasy, anywhere in the world now?!
I saw a gal interviewed at a foreign airport (American woman) and (you could hear it in the background) she said the airport (filled with Americans trying to get out and back on American soil) was ‘pandemonium’. It sounded like in her case that there was indeed confusion of the ‘ban’/restrictions, and some Americans just don’t want to take a chance they can’t get back for awhile (as the news and edicts possibly change again as the virus gallops). I was thinking, and I’ll put it context of when you and Don were in Paris just a few months back, of what it would be to be on vacation in a foreign country, indeed find yourself ‘stuck’, your hotel stay about to end; where would you go, where to find housing for a month or two or more, and how long could the money last? I can see where an American traveler would think, better safe than sorry, maybe I better cut short my stay and get home.
Although, referencing what you just said, ‘home’ isn’t the safest place in the world either, when we appear to be running so behind on mobilizing for the epidemic already here in the U.S. I feel badly for our health care workers and hospitals, when they’re trying to be but can’t be ready for what’s ahead, when they can’t get enough of that personal protective gear, knowing what’s lying in wait for them ahead with long hours and their own exposure, etc. I think a lot of us are just appalled, to learn that we’re behind in how to prep for something like a global pandemic (we’re America, aren’t we supposed to be first and the best on this kind of thing?) – – maybe that’s not the right way to phrase it; the med professionals know what they need to do, but what about when they’re strangled with no test kits, not enough ventilators, etc. It’s such a disconnect, of how you listen to the epidemiologists and physicians, as they go on TV to try to educate people about this (because our own president can’t, and continues to try to downplay the threat) and then you get the conflicting info from the government; just so much uncertainty. Akin to feeling like you’re on a sinking ship and you look to the captain for direction, but he can’t do anything to allay fears or come up with a solution or even give you the facts/truth…as you face the fact you could drown and go down with the ship.
Better to think positively, though. Find our faith. Onward and moving ahead, I’m looking forward to being home tomorrow and giving myself a rest from the lists and planning of the past few weeks. Most of us are in place now; just sit tight, stay safe. As has been said here on the blog more than once by the other readers and you, my husband and I have been going over and over it, of how grateful we are that we’re retired and CAN sit tight, be safer at the house, when we know of too many other people struggling with what they’ll do about childcare with closed schools, what will happen to their jobs and paychecks, etc. To think if this had happened three or four years ago, and in my husband’s particular work environment, I really don’t know what would have happened with his job and pay. It’s good that with you and Don, you can pick and choose your freelance work right now…and stay out of pubic transportation to & from the City, etc.
As a native Southern Californian and still a kinda Los Angeles girl, although we knew this sort of thing would now happen, I had to do another one of those gulps today: They closed Disneyland in Anaheim. Wow.
Don had already decided that if he had an audition, he would drive into the city. But something tells me there isn’t a lot of that happening at the moment. xo
I am still reading the second book of The Dublin Saga. It is 800 plus paged and I am finally half way trough the book. It is very disturbing how the English treated the Catholic Irish. I am also reading a few magazine and a book: “The Lives Of The Saints. I ordered groceries on line last night. They cannot be delivered until Sunday. All the other delivery times were sold out. Fortunately, we have enough until Sunday. It was mostly the milk. We are listening to our Irish music collection and watching some television,too. Hope every one stays healthy and safe.
Marilyn
Stay safe, Marilyn.
The Giver of Stars: A Novel, Jojo Moyes
I think you may like this one…….
Thanks, Nancy!
I love seeing what everyone is reading. I am finishing up Gilly Mcmillan’s, The Nanny. It’s not a short book, but reads very quickly. Right now I am looking for pure escape reading. Just let a book take me somewhere else as they often do……
Escape is a good thing right about now! Thanks, Judy.
Well, I was in the library the other day and saw “Emma” by Jane Austen and thought why not? I’m not too far into it yet but I am enjoying the story.
Love Jane Austen! Thanks, Claudia.