Another roaster here, August 11, 2025. My mother’s birthday.

A little over a minute of video:

I’ve read the first chapter of this book and am SO BLOWN away by the writing, I had to set it aside for a minute.

By the way, if you’re like me and are often in a reading pickle because a book (or three!) you’ve been on the waiting list for (often for months) has come up for you to borrow (we’re talking the Libby app here), but you’re reading something else, I have the greatest workaround.

You have to have two devices. I usually read on my phone, so I use my phone and iPad.

If you open the book on your iPad or kindle AND TURN THE WIFI OFF, when it comes time for the book to be returned from your phone, it’ll remain on the other device.

Ta da! Problem solved.

I don’t mind reading more than one book at a time — no surprise there, I suppose — but sometimes it gets out of hand.

Today, I delayed delivery of two library books and took Vuong’s out, even though I’m reading something else (two something elses actually).

Just finished Broken Country yesterday. Recommend.

I kind of cringe to read this slapdash and incomplete review, but I’ve given myself permission to just jot something down. It really doesn’t have to be perfect. Plenty of other people on Goodreads do the whole “this is what the book is about” thing. I don’t have to.

But I’ll tell you, it’s about the death of a child and a love triangle. Tragedy all round but somehow not a complete bummer to read.