Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I see it’s been a week–technically just over a week?–since I’ve been on, and yet it wasn’t AS busy a week as it has been lately. My 8th grader performed a duet at a care center after school on Tuesday, requiring a chauffeur, and Wednesday and Thursday were PTA Convention. Friday was an errand sort of day, and Saturday involved a fair amount of laundry and some time home with just my son and me. (Most of it was good, although it ended in tears.) My hubby took the girls to see their cousin in her Junior High’s “The Little Mermaid” AND did the necessary Walmart shopping for yesterday’s dinner, so that was fantastic. My mother-in-law came for dinner yesterday after dropping my father-in-law off at the airport for a trip, so we had two kinds of cake for dinner–and I ate way, WAY too much of it. (Because Rhubarb Custard Cake–as well as homemade German Chocolate Cake.) Such was the week!

In the meantime, I have at least four completed books waiting for review, and so I’m starting with the audio that’s due and not renewable tomorrow. Freya Sampson’s The Last Chance Library showed up on the newest audio titles list on Libby several months ago, and it sounded appealing enough that I went ahead and put it on hold right then–because how could I possibly resist a book about a quirky group of oddballs banding together to save a local library? And I’m glad I did, because it was totally worth it (even if I didn’t love Mrs. B’s use of the F-word). June as a heroine required some patience from me–she’s debilitatingly shy, yes, but she’s also unable to see her future realistically for the first half or so of the book–but seeing her evolve was rewarding. I think what I liked best, however, was how realistically hopeful the conclusion was. You want the fairy tale ending, of course–at least, I certainly did–and yet there’s a wholly different kind of pleasure in an ending that manages to be both likely and completely satisfying. Library lovers–don’t miss this one.