After much encouragement from my co-worker, and the suggestion of a well-intentioned presenter on a webinar I participated in for work, (she lured me in with the promise of free audiobooks, which I have yet to come across) I downloaded the NetGalley app. From what I gather, it is an opportunity to get advanced copies of titles in hopes of receiving reviews. I didn't have much of an opportunity to play around with it, except to request access to a few audiobooks and then forgot about it. Then, I went glamping over Labor Day weekend and forgot my Kindle and physical book.🤦 After experiencing a brief meltdown, I remembered that I had the NetGalley app on my phone. I discovered an interesting title called "Dust." Reading it on my phone was challenging due to the PDF format, but I managed to finish it over the weekend. I enjoyed this book. It tells the story of a family moving to a town in southern Colorado. The father becomes increasingly introverted, keeping his daughters
Due to my firstborn's shoulder surgery halfway across the country, I had the rare opportunity to have a week of downtime. In between sleepless nights and ice packs and pain meds, I read, spent an obnoxious amount of time on social media, and ate a ton of fast food. I brought three books with me: The last graduate by Naomi Novik , Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis , and Creating change through Humanism by Roy Speckhardt . I chose the first because it is a library book and I am DYING to finish it as it is the sequel to Deadly education, which left on a wicked cliffhanger. I chose the Screwtape letters because I read it as a kid and remember it being weirdly entertaining and I grabbed the Humanism book because a friend lent it to me. I made quite a bit of progress with Deadly education. It is one of quite a few sequels that I have read lately that is better than the first. I never picked up Screwtape letters but I did poke around at the Humanist book and spoiler alert, I think I am a H