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Bookish Talk, Life

Sunday Matters: Vacation Done

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Sunday Matters, a latte on a wooden tray against greenery.

I am back from summer camp!! It was a great week. The students mean so much to me and we had a really good time getting to know one another without the distraction of the world.

Right Now:

Drinking my mushroom coffee. All the rage. It makes me feel really good. No crash. Then, heading to student ministry. After? A nap. Please.

This Week:

Back to work. Eh. Nothing else scheduled. Just taking it easy this week. My entire body is sore from camp.

Reading:

Infinite Jest

Red Pill

One is my summer pick, and the latter is for book club. Super hard to follow Red Pill. I’m 50% in. Hmmm.

Watching:

I finished the last season of Squid Game. Without spoilers, I will say most of it was predictable and pissed me off. The franchise though? Enjoyed.

Grateful for:

    New friends.
    The daughter comes home 7/28.
    Plants. I’ve propagated a few from a fave main plant and they are all doing well.

Have a great week. Tell me how you’re doing.

Bookish Talk, Life

Summer Reading? Maybe? Anyone care to join me?

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Ti, holding a copy of Infinite Jest outside, against a backdrop of greenery.

Remember how I mentioned that reading, or rather finding any time to read has been a challenge? Well, I’ve completely lost my mind. I scrapped any hopes of coming up with a summer reading list. Instead, I picked up this doorstop of a book.

Infinite Jest by the late David Foster Wallace.

I almost chose this one as my first book of the year and you all said, “No, Ti!! Don’t do that to yourself!” I listened. But, guys, it’s been one heck of a year so far. I feel like NOW might be the right time to read it.

Here’s a blurb:

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America

“Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.” ~ the publisher

Sounds fascinating, right? So, I am going to spend the summer with this book. I will take my time reading it, feeling it, and digesting whatever there is to take in. Simple. One book, for the summer. I can do this.