What I’m Reading Now

I definitely feel like I’ve been struggling this year with the motivation to read. Last year I finished 30 books so I set myself the goal of having read 35 by the end of the year. I checked today and I’ve read... 6. Pitiful. My husband slipped this book in my Easter basket, and I felt just the thing to get me back into my groove is an easy romance.

It’s been an enjoyable read so far. I like that I don’t have to think too much and it’s easy to get back into the story when I’ve put it down for awhile. It’s the story of two empty nesters who find romance in unexpected places. Very predictable but comforting- the perfect quarantine read, to be sure.

I have never been much of an audiobook person, but I’m finding now that I’m working from home I like to listen to them in the background while tending to some easier tasks. I also have been listening while doing housework and going for a run. I just finished A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, and promptly picked up Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Perry. I really enjoyed A Night to Remember- I’ve been a Titanic buff since the movie came out in ‘98- and Ghosts of the Tsunami is heartbreaking. It’s the story of the survivors of the huge tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.

I ordered The Nightingale and Where The Crawdads sing, and I can’t wait until I get those in from Amazon.

What have you been reading recently?

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