snapshot 5.18

currently reading: I’m still reading Marble Hall Murders. I thought about pushing through it this weekend, but I just want to keep read it slowly and enjoying the entire process. So I am. But I am loving it. I am so happy to get to hang out with Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland again. I am loving it so much.

I’m also listening to No One Was Supposed to Die at this Wedding. It’s the follow-up to Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies. It’s about Eleanor Dash, a women who found a successful career writing adventure mysteries, based on a trip she took to Italy after college. In this one, her best friend is starring in the movie based on her book, and she’s marrying her co-star in a spontaneous wedding on Catalina Island. But there is a storm brewing, both literally and metaphorically. There is a hurricane coming towards the island, so most all of the other tourists have gone bac to the mainland. And her friend Emma, the bride, starts getting threatening notes. There is a big cast of characters, many of who also featured in the first book. You don’t have to read the first book to understand this one, but it’s a fun read. And this narrator brings the snark, so I am all in on her (Elizabeth Evans, so amazing!).

Last week, the allergies I’d been fighting with for weeks finally did that alchemy that turns them into a double sinus infection and upper respiratory infection, so by Thursday night I just couldn’t make forms come together any more. I’m still feeling run down, but I am hoping to find words this week. New Katherine Center, new Mary Dixie Carter, and more great books are coming.

I also snagged this one for myself. Richard Ayoade is a genius of a comedian, and I was so so excited to find out that he had a new book out. I will always love Moss. iykyk.