It’s Monday, what are you reading?—a weekly blog meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
You guys! I did it. I finished Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin over the weekend. Although I’m glad I made it all the way through, that took entirely too long! Phew. I have some mixed feelings about it… review coming later this week.
Other good news: I think I may have gotten my reading mojo back! Over Saturday and Sunday I read half of Wool by Hugh Howey. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic future where a community of humans have lived in a giant underground silo for (possibly) centuries, following a strict set of rules. The punishment for those who don’t follow the rules is simple enough: you are sent outside to clean the silo’s exterior camera lenses. But no one ever comes back from a cleaning. Why? What’s really happening here?
I got this from the library for my husband to read (he has been interested in dystopian fiction lately), and I thought I’d read a little to see how it is. So far I’m (obviously) enjoying it! I think I might even be able to finish it in the next few days. After that I have a short book borrowed from my mother about the Solidarity Singers in Wisconsin, titled Unintimidated: Wisconsin Sings Truth to Power (the title is a shot at Governor Scott Walker’s memoir title) and I got Bird Box by Josh Malerman in the mail (also for Nick… but I’m not sure I can resist!) so I’ll probably move onto those after Wool.
What are you reading this week?
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That’s great! It sounds like you’ve been getting a lot of reading done. I just finished Kate Bracy’s That Crazy Little Thing, which took me a while because I paused to re-read Shakespeare’s Richard III last week. I have a couple of different options on Kindle, but I haven’t started any of them yet. It’s going to a very tough week at work, and so I’m not sure I’ll have much time to read in the evenings.
I did that with The Blind Assassin—paused to read a couple other things in between (I like your way of putting it: “paused” 🙂 ). I think my schedule is finally calming down and I have more time in the evenings and weekends to read now (for a little while, at least!). Hope you can get back into a normal reading groove soon!
Glad you’re enjoying Wool! I read it a while back and was surprised by how great it was. Hope to hear good things about Bird Box!
I am! It’s great to read something I’m breezing through pretty quickly and easily after the slog-fest that was The Blind Assassin for me. (Not that Blind Assassin was bad… many factors contributed to my slogging. Blrrgh)
Well done on The Blind Assassin, hope you enjoy Wool; a little lighter.
Phew! It was quite the experience, reading that one. I’m glad I made it through, though. I feel like I snapped out of my reading slump, between The Blind Assassin and Wool 🙂
I’m glad you got out of it, Reading Slumps are the worst