I've decided to try making my weekly wrap-up into a Sunday Salon so I can link up with others doing Sunday Salon posts. We'll see how this goes!
Reading This Week
Reading This Week
- I finished Middlemarch! I've been reading this one almost since we started staying home in mid-March. I loved it. I'd never read Eliot before, but wow! She's such a talented, insightful writer, she just gets human nature and relationships and she's so well-read--the metaphors, the similes, the allusions...the book is a masterclass. And I love, love, love the ending. She wraps it up for the characters to give a sense of closure but it's also satisfyingly realistic. No perfect HEAs here. I'm sure I'll be talking about this more!
- I just started reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell for one of my book clubs. If you haven't heard of it, it's about the science behind how we make snap judgments and how we can use that to our advantage. Not a book I would have picked, but interesting.
Watching This Week
- We finally saw Hamilton! My husband and I watched the filmed production that came out Friday on Disney+. We really enjoyed it, and we've been looking up the history of the characters and what really happened since. It definitely makes me want to read more on the subject. I don't know if it lived up to the hype because, well, how could anything, but it was good.
- I watched the new Babysitters' Club TV adaptation on Netflix! I loved The Babysitters' Club books growing up. I actually started with The Babysitters' Club Little Sister books, so I was glad to see Karen take a prominent role in this adaptation! I loved how the episodes basically followed the plots of the original books but with modern updates. It was a fun, enjoyable nostalgic watch for me, and I hope it keeps going!
Writing This Week
- I've decided to do Camp NaNoWriMo in July (SpaceStationMir if you want to add me as a friend) and my ostensible goal is 15k words, but my real goal is to finish the book I started in November. I did 500some words on July 1 and none since, so I need to keep going. The issue is really that I'm pretty much at the end, and while I know how I want it to end, I don't really know what I'm doing with revision, which I definitely need to do, so I'm consciously/unconsciously trying to put that off, but I need to just finish it and plunge into revising somehow, even if I don't really know what I'm doing!
Comments
I liked Blink a lot. I tend to be a person who relies on intuition over reason, so it was nice to have confirmation that that can be an excellent strategy.
I'm terribly envious of everyone who has watched Hamilton on Disney+. I'm sure it will arrive in other formats one of these days, but Hamilton is a show I very much want to watch.
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Wishing you a great reading week