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My #weeklyforecast is that the next five days are crazy busy so not sure I'll get much reading done. (And to make matters worse, I seem to have caught a cold. 🤧)
Anyhoo my books for this week are:
📗A Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler #mounttbr
📗Act 1 of Comedy of Errors #shakespearereadalong
🎧 Essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers #mounttbr
@Cinfhen

I picked this up because of @bookriot Persist Book Club, I‘m a bit behind-hand in finishing it (oops) but this isn‘t an “east to read” type book. I did a lot of digesting. She‘s really at home writing about the weirdness of being a working mom, her daughter with her to various speaking/writing engagements, and also of being a woman of color in those same spaces. The history bits were really interesting. I definitely want to track down her poetry.

I think I'm still in time for #tbrforthewin giveaway from @readinginthedark. Here are a few books I'd love to win.
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A new collection of beautiful, smart, kick-ass essays. Just. So. Good.

I really loved this book! A great read for anyone whose interested in essays, memoir, motherhood, race, travel, nature, life.

"Being your mother has required one act of vulgarity after another, and I am so strung out on you I couldn't care less." ❤

Just started this--the first essay is great.

These essays weave together the writer's practice with nature, race, & motherhood in such a seamless way as to embed its critiques & experiences deep into your mind

"Unless language is home."

"History is the synthesis of our lives."

Boom. On page fucking 2

Today's #bookmail is a pleasant surprise