Summer break

Hello from the Catskills!

Hello from the Catskills! I was hoping this post might be a personal tour into the Hudson Valley Book Trail, but we only made it to two bookstores and spent the rest of the time eating wood-fired bagels, visiting the world’s biggest (and trippiest) kaleidoscope, and cosplaying as water nymphs in snowmelt streams on 90-degree days. I wrote a little too, read lots, and still managed to find four Ursula books from a used bookstore that I haven’t read yet. This post is therefore short and sweet, because my time to enjoy this mountain summer is short and sweet and I want to get back to reading in an Adirondack chair with my feet in a cold river before we hit the road.

Rainy, misty river time.

Morning writing, with a view!

Some writing buddies decided to join me.

What I’m writing

Still reworking a scene, slowly.

What I’m reading

Started All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders and holy hell I love this book. Also started listening to Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee.

What I read

I finished Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, and… it’s good? It’s very good. But it also suffers from being one of those books that everyone is saying is amazing and then you end up being slightly underwhelmed when you finally read it. I suspect I’ll feel that way about All Fours by Miranda July, one of the buzziest summer releases, if and when I ever read that, too. It was slow to start for me, the secondary character development was just okay, I thought of the twist about 100 pages before it was revealed, and the ending is as murky as the bottom of a Catskill stream. Looking forward to the book club discussion for this one at Greedy Reads.