Summer Hiatus

Bad news: I took a summer break from blog-writing.
Good news: I read lots of books and drank lots of tea during this break.

As mentioned in the previous post, I did start to read The Effect of Living Backwards. It was AWFUL. Yuck. I couldn't even get through the first ten pages. It was too "crazy" and convoluted, not even in an interesting way. The worst part of the entire book, however, was the freaking cover art. It looked like it was a member of the Ya-Ya series. Ultimately, it was just too creepy to hold a Ya-Ya look-alike book in my hands.

After giving up that book, I started to read To Kill a Mockingbird, which I had (shockingly) never read before. It was the best book ever!! I loved it so much and am now obsessed with it, the corresponding movie, and Harper Lee. And the name Atticus.

I also read Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey. It was good, despite the quote on the back from Newsweek stating, "Oh the Glory of It All is the best possible proof that it's not facts of a memoir that make it memorable. It's how you tell it." What?! Sean Wilsey definitely starts off with some good "facts"-- growing up with socialites, getting sent to crazy boarding schools, running away from home, stealing cars, etc. etc. He's not exactly starting off with a run-of-the-mill life to focus his memoir on.

In fact, I thought his stories were often better than the way he wrote about them. S.W. overused the pseudo-dramatic lines of "This was the first time this ever happened" and "This was the only time I ever saw him do this." Enough already!

More books were read and I haven't even started on the tea-related content yet, so I will be back with more soon. I promise-- summer hiatus is over...