Serene of the Oakland Serenes

Taking kaberett's lead and adding Cooking and Growing to this list.

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This is the first week I've felt mostly functional since mom died. Not doing a ton of reading/watching/etc., but more than I was.

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...since I did one of these Wednesday things. Hmm, let's see. Disclaimer: I have the attention span of a gnat lately, so anything I'm not super into may just be a function of my brain and not a statement on its quality.

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Having a shitty week, but I finally have a couple hours to just sit and chill, so book post it is!


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I'm not sure doing these on Wednesdays will work for me this semester, but I still want to do it. I leave the house before 8am and get home between 7 and 8pm, and I just kind of crash mentally. Will try, but there will probably be a lot of Thursday posting.

(Wednesday schedule: leave at 7:45 to take The Kid to school; go to the border and pick up Munchkin The Elder; take him to work with me so he can get to class on time; work 10 to 6:45; take The Kid home; drop Munchkin The Elder back at the border; come home.]

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When mom was halfway to my brother's, he called to tell her everyone there was sick. Now she's got the flu or something -- fever of 101.7 and chills, and I'm keeping an eye on her. I need to go take her temperature again in 30 minutes or so, so I thought I'd do the reading thingy while I wait.

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Oh, my gosh, what a day.

No spoilers in post; possible spoilers in comments.

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firecat reminded me that I really do want to do this most weeks.

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I'm not usually around on Wednesdays, and then when I'm catching up on the weekend and seeing your posts about what you're reading, I tend not to post because it's not Wednesday, but a while back, I decided to just post when I post. I want to have a log of what I read, and this is as good a place as any to keep it.

Recently finished:

N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season. Gorgeous, complex, highly readable, magically real, utterly wrenching in places but purely enjoyable all the way through.

Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning. I like her writing about writing and zen. I am more aware of issues of privilege than I used to be, so I'm less enamored of her presumption that everyone can do the kind of writing practice she prefers, but still, I got a lot from the book, and it's directly responsible for the fact that I'm writing again. Remind me never to do NaNo again -- every time I do it, I end up quitting writing for a long time. This time, it was nearly a year. But then, that happened after I finished my degree, too.

Currently Reading:

Octavia Butler, Kindred
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

On the TBR pile:

Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir
Anna Newell Jones, The Spender's Guide to Debt-free Living
re-read Steve Kowit, In the Palm of Your Hand