What has the pandemic wrought?

 Well for one I have been reading alot... as many folks have.

I finished Welcome to the United States of Anxiety by Jen Lancaster 

 I am a fan of Ms Lancaster on Instagram... love her.  She saves me the time and energy watching some of the Bachler shows... I would give her a rose (that is the right thing right?) for her energy and sincere love of the wrapups.  So she announced that her book was out and I got it the ebook that day.  I just knew that it would be exactly what I needed to have bedside on the ipad to read before I went to bed.  

So why did it take so long to read?  

Oh because I started The Stand by Stephen King all 1000 pages of it.  It's a long read, it's a deep dive to start in a pandemic not going to lie.  How do he know?  I mean geebus how did he know? I think I started it in April.  I finally found the mass market paperback locally but have been reading the ebook.  The book is just too small and hard to hold I have tiny little hands and I can't.  Sorry that is why I keep getting the book from the library.  I read it often but it takes so much time.  Not that I regret getting started.  

So why would I start a book about a pandemic in the middle of one?  Yeah there are a couple of reasons.  

One I have a pen pal named Ms. Shirley (Hi Ms Shirley!!!!) who was looking for a friend to write about Stephen King novels.  So I needed a book to start, it seemed like a good one.  What a ride it's been. I feel terrible because another friend got her the book and she is going to start it soon she says.  That'll teach me.  I do love the style.  There is so much in this book.  I am halfway through.  I will beat this beast.  I am back on the waitlist and it's a good thing because I can take the time away to finish a couple of other ones that I started.

And the other reason... why not read a complex story about a pandemic that possibly will scare the shit out of me while we are in a pandemic and I am actually having the shit scared out of me?

So while I am waiting for the ebook to come up available from the library again and I am not willing to hold that tiny but HUGE mass paperback ....Here is what I have in que and started. 

I.M. a memoir by Isaac Mizrahi - LOVE THIS BOOK. Love it.  I think I am reading it slowly because I just want to think we are friends and he is spilling tea with me.  I know that this is not even remotely true... but hey Issac... if you read this...  I would talk recipes with you mmm k? 

A North Pole Cop in a South Boston World - by Jason Stewart

Don't let the inexpensive ebook price catch you thinking that this is just some dumb ebook.  It's clever and really great.  More to come on this later.  I am so ding dang lucky that I know the author because it's really a great read.  More on that to come later when I have finished.  But it is in process and I want to read it at a clip and not the fits and starts that come from being in The Stand World as I call it right now. I am probably at somepoint going to share a recipe with him since mostly the times that we connect I am eating.  Keepin' it classy.  

For my anniversary the little Mr bought me a signed copy of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson so I started to re-read the ebook that I have.  I love this woman.  Seriously. You know how I said above that I would invite a friendship with Isaac Mizrahi?  I would quake in my boots if I was ever even in the same room with this fine and special being on the planet. To say she is funny and special is beyond.  I watched her book reading here that is a preview for her new book that is coming in April (if I remember correctly... I do have a request for the galley... and yes I would review it, yes I would buy a hard copy and yes I will talk about it anyways... but wouldn't you like to have a review?  Hint hint...oh I will talk about this so much).  At the beginning or maybe middle of the pandemic I am not sure when since time is completely meaningless right now, she gave a walkthrough of her bookshelves behind her desk.  It was incredible.  I can't colorize my bookshelves... it truly goes against everything that I know (I wanted to be a librarian at one time) but I loved her talking about her books... like her they are friends in a way.  She had a story for each one she picked.  It was magic.  

OH I almost completely forgot. 

If you are looking for something to do while we wait patiently for the pandemic to be over... Jenny Lawson also has a coloring book out.  It is great I just look at it and color it in with my imagination because the copy I have is hard for me to actually color in.  I don't know why I can't just do it.  It's like that with Chuck Palahniuk's coloring books I suppose, I have them and I just can't bring myself to marr them up.  I may have to get another one to actually color in.  I do have some more time on my hands now than I did before.  Updates for that in a bit... sorry to vaguebook on that but I don't like to put too much of myself out there anymore.  

OH and I am linking to the books to a small amazing bookshop in Texas where you should consider buying your books from.  They ship anywhere and would be happy to take your order.  

xoxo and happy reading friends... Zoe