Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

The actual reason I didn’t manage a post on Wednesday was simple–my audiobook was due in a day or less, it wasn’t renewable because of other holds, and I absolutely was NOT going to let it get returned unfinished and then wait for weeks to get it back again. (Been there, done that, not fun.) SO, instead of writing a blog post during the morning hours when I had peace, quiet, and the power of concentration, I finished my audiobook and made significant inroads on a puzzle instead. I had hopes of making up for it yesterday, but since that clearly didn’t happen–although applesauce did, so yay for that!–here we are.

I should note that I peeked (very briefly) at the ending of Jamie Sumner’s Rolling On on Tuesday night, which led to the executive decision to put off applying eye makeup until I’d finished it. (This doesn’t feel like much of a spoiler, given that the book description tells you that Ellie’s grandpa’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse and my dad has dementia.) It was, however, even more of a ride than I’d expected. Ellie’s unexpected shift in how she feels about Bert (again, that was in the book description) sends her on a completely understandable what-do-I-do-about-this rollercoaster, but the weird patches that puts their relationship through take the plot in a direction I wasn’t expecting. Coralee, thankfully, is Ellie’s rock throughout, which she needs–especially since her way of dealing with her grandpa’s health issues isn’t the healthiest. Ultimately, this is a lovely book with a bittersweet ending, and my one fault with it is how the bullying incident is handled. While I get the reasoning of the victim, and I can appreciate that Sumner didn’t want to make the rest of the book about that–still no. I just can’t be comfortable with it.

It is, however, still an excellent book.

In the meantime, I have to be somewhere at 11 and I have yet to brush my teeth, so I’d best be about getting ready for the ‘face the world’ part of my day. Here’s to a three-day weekend!