I got off to a terrible start with reading this year. At the very end of December, I started reading Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea. A friend of mine recommended it to me, but for some reason I just couldn’t get into it. I got about 100 pages in and just couldn’t bring myself to keep reading. But because of the recommendation, I felt bad abandoning it. And so it sat for several weeks before I finally gave up and sent it back to the library. 😦
What finally got me out of my reading slump was my friend, CJ Halbard, sending me an advanced copy of his newest Project Tempest novella, Her Mad Song. It deals with some really interesting ideas (specifically emotional climate change – that there is an emotional/imaginative environment that everyone is connected to, which is perhaps permanently changing because of the emotions and tensions that have been building up, as shown through things like social media).
I did start reading another book after finishing Her Mad Song, but didn’t have time to finish it this week due to some work training I was doing (it was three full days, plus I spent a lot of time reviewing stuff from the textbook each evening after the class was over).
So what have you read over the last month? What was your favourite book? 🙂
An Acquaintance with Letters 
I finished “Mistress of the Ritz” about the Nazi occupation of Paris. Very interesting book with so many sad elements, of course. The author is Melanie Benjamin, and I plan to check into her other books!
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I got it from the library for my dad and he finished it already!!!! He really liked it. 🙂
I’m planning on reading it when I get a chance, too. 🙂
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I’m so happy to hear that, Shauna!
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