What a great end and start to the reading year! Glad you got something good out of How to Keep House While Drowning. The accommodations perspective really stuck with me too. All the other books you finished also sounded really wonderful. Hope the weather doesn't affect your area too severly!
Yes, I was glad you/Kristen had talked about How tot Keep House, I would have probably never picked it up otherwise, and definitely took a lot more out of it than I had expected for such a short book. The weather turned out to be at the far end of the worst predictions 🤣 luckily I'm cozy at home, but more or less the whole area remained shut down or limited opening mon/tuesday, and while we haven't had more snow/ice, the temps plummeted, so it's just all re-freezing solid. What a mess.
Great books! I'm definitely going to be adding the Armfield to my list (I know I've said that before...but how can I resist "damp lesbians"?) I've never read 84 Charring Cross Road, but everyone I know has raved about it--so I probably SHOULD read it!
I am so glad to have read Salt Slow, it's very different from Our Wives, but also still really cohesive and captures the same vibe. I'm really even more excited for Private Rites now... after my RWYO! 84 Charing Cross is just so much more than I could have imagined, despite all the incessant raving! Definitely try to get to it sooner rather than later, maybe when you want to a quick single day reading boost.
Yeah, I lamented the lack of lesbians in The Little Stranger but it was very well done and very atmospheric. How to keep House While Drowning sounds interesting. I've heard great things about The Reason I Jump. I'm glad it resonated with you. Ughh, snowmageddon. I did all my errands early and will hunker down. I'm already seeing reports of black ice. Stay safe!
I will definitely be carrying on with more Sarah Waters, hopefully her even more typical works will only go up from here, because they sound like my absolute catnip. I do think you would like both How to Keep House & The Reason I Jump, both great little books. I think I had heard mostly good but mixed things about The Reason I Jump, seemingly a vocally angry contingent that in my perception probably heavily aligns with the autism speaks crowd that really center the parent experience rather than the person with autism... just very outspoken about how questionable or false the book is in giving parents hope their child is a locked in genius. It's all a little icky to me. I rather expect you wouldn't get caught up in it being more than one persons story of their experience, but certainly the idea there is something disingenuous to it is out there. Hope you are safe and warm for sure, and very glad you succeeded at your errands ahead! How much have you wound up with there? That sleet all day was wild, and then waking up this morning to basically the amount of snow having doubled was surprising. I think we've ended up with the upper end of the worst estimates in the NW outer metro, I had really thought those would be overestimating what would happen, but nope! I know south of the city got more ice, which is really rough.
@ReadBecca I have 1 Sarah Waters left, Affinity. I'm hoping to get to it in the next few months. Would you be interested in a buddy read? We got a fair bit of ice but only 3-4 inches of snow. Pretty much the town is shutdown because the ice makes it treacherous. I'm glad to have a big stack of library books to see me through. Are you able to work remotely on bad weather days?
@ReadBecca Re the austism parents; yeah. I prefer to hear from the person living the experience and not filtered through the perspective of how it affects an abled parent.
@@toweringtbr I don't have Affinity, so it would have to be after my RWYO challenge, so if you still haven't read it by then I will try to remember to hit you up for a buddy read! But also don't feel like you have to wait for me if you are feeling like reading it. Oof yes, the Ice makes everything awful, and then the snow melt just makes it worse! With the Cold it's going to be tough to get around for awhile. We got some Ice and sleet, not as bad as you, but then about 15" of snow, way more than I thought we would, so same with basically everything being shut down yesterday. I work from home most of the time, so no interruption to me, sadly no snow day here - though it was quiet and I got some reading done.
@ReadBecca Ok. With my struggles with mental health, I've been reading by whim a ton, so I'm not sure when I'll get to Affinity. I won't wait on you, but perhaps the timing will work out. Wow! 15 inches. I'm glad you were able to work from home.
I enjoyed Our Wives Under the Sea so I grabbed Salt Slow when I saw it last year. I still haven't read it though 😆 (it being a short story collection probably has something to do with that)... 😂
Absolutely know that feeling 😂 I always think how easy it should be to work in a short story or two every week or so and keep getting through short story collections.... but then I never do it!
@@SluggishReader indeed. I started one last year and put it on my currently reading, and after 2 stories haven't picked it up again because I focused on novels, but it's still sitting on my currently reading 😄
What a great end and start to the reading year! Glad you got something good out of How to Keep House While Drowning. The accommodations perspective really stuck with me too. All the other books you finished also sounded really wonderful. Hope the weather doesn't affect your area too severly!
Yes, I was glad you/Kristen had talked about How tot Keep House, I would have probably never picked it up otherwise, and definitely took a lot more out of it than I had expected for such a short book.
The weather turned out to be at the far end of the worst predictions 🤣 luckily I'm cozy at home, but more or less the whole area remained shut down or limited opening mon/tuesday, and while we haven't had more snow/ice, the temps plummeted, so it's just all re-freezing solid. What a mess.
@ReadBecca Yikes about the weather!! Glad you're okay. Hope it clears up soon.
Great books! I'm definitely going to be adding the Armfield to my list (I know I've said that before...but how can I resist "damp lesbians"?) I've never read 84 Charring Cross Road, but everyone I know has raved about it--so I probably SHOULD read it!
I am so glad to have read Salt Slow, it's very different from Our Wives, but also still really cohesive and captures the same vibe. I'm really even more excited for Private Rites now... after my RWYO!
84 Charing Cross is just so much more than I could have imagined, despite all the incessant raving! Definitely try to get to it sooner rather than later, maybe when you want to a quick single day reading boost.
Yeah, I lamented the lack of lesbians in The Little Stranger but it was very well done and very atmospheric. How to keep House While Drowning sounds interesting. I've heard great things about The Reason I Jump. I'm glad it resonated with you. Ughh, snowmageddon. I did all my errands early and will hunker down. I'm already seeing reports of black ice. Stay safe!
I will definitely be carrying on with more Sarah Waters, hopefully her even more typical works will only go up from here, because they sound like my absolute catnip.
I do think you would like both How to Keep House & The Reason I Jump, both great little books. I think I had heard mostly good but mixed things about The Reason I Jump, seemingly a vocally angry contingent that in my perception probably heavily aligns with the autism speaks crowd that really center the parent experience rather than the person with autism... just very outspoken about how questionable or false the book is in giving parents hope their child is a locked in genius. It's all a little icky to me. I rather expect you wouldn't get caught up in it being more than one persons story of their experience, but certainly the idea there is something disingenuous to it is out there.
Hope you are safe and warm for sure, and very glad you succeeded at your errands ahead! How much have you wound up with there? That sleet all day was wild, and then waking up this morning to basically the amount of snow having doubled was surprising. I think we've ended up with the upper end of the worst estimates in the NW outer metro, I had really thought those would be overestimating what would happen, but nope! I know south of the city got more ice, which is really rough.
@ReadBecca I have 1 Sarah Waters left, Affinity. I'm hoping to get to it in the next few months. Would you be interested in a buddy read? We got a fair bit of ice but only 3-4 inches of snow. Pretty much the town is shutdown because the ice makes it treacherous. I'm glad to have a big stack of library books to see me through. Are you able to work remotely on bad weather days?
@ReadBecca Re the austism parents; yeah. I prefer to hear from the person living the experience and not filtered through the perspective of how it affects an abled parent.
@@toweringtbr I don't have Affinity, so it would have to be after my RWYO challenge, so if you still haven't read it by then I will try to remember to hit you up for a buddy read! But also don't feel like you have to wait for me if you are feeling like reading it.
Oof yes, the Ice makes everything awful, and then the snow melt just makes it worse! With the Cold it's going to be tough to get around for awhile. We got some Ice and sleet, not as bad as you, but then about 15" of snow, way more than I thought we would, so same with basically everything being shut down yesterday. I work from home most of the time, so no interruption to me, sadly no snow day here - though it was quiet and I got some reading done.
@ReadBecca Ok. With my struggles with mental health, I've been reading by whim a ton, so I'm not sure when I'll get to Affinity. I won't wait on you, but perhaps the timing will work out.
Wow! 15 inches. I'm glad you were able to work from home.
I enjoyed Our Wives Under the Sea so I grabbed Salt Slow when I saw it last year. I still haven't read it though 😆 (it being a short story collection probably has something to do with that)... 😂
Absolutely know that feeling 😂 I always think how easy it should be to work in a short story or two every week or so and keep getting through short story collections.... but then I never do it!
@ReadBecca I thought of doing that, and it sounds practical enough 😆 But knowing me, I would probably drift off to some long form novels 😂
@@SluggishReader indeed. I started one last year and put it on my currently reading, and after 2 stories haven't picked it up again because I focused on novels, but it's still sitting on my currently reading 😄