Reading Log as of January 18th

 


I woke up to the enticing scent of fresh roasted coffee beans which Hubby hadn't done for some time now.   He generally likes to do a dark roast so he choose to roast some Guatemala Xinabajul which is an earthy combination of dark chocolate, sugar, and caramel. At Christmas time, we also received some homemade Kahlua made by one of my employees which was wonderful.  Normally, I don't drink coffee but hubby made the best cup of espresso this morning because when I took a sip, it was actually good.  And now I’m craving an Espresso Martini. Which is why coffee is on my mind and either subliminally or not so subliminally, I started reading At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber this morning.

"When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

On the surface, Maggie Mae Brightwell is a bundle of energy as she runs Magpie’s, Driftwood’s coffee and curiosity shop, where there’s magic to be found in pairing the old with the new. But lurking under her cheerful exterior is a painful truth—keeping busy is the best way to distract herself from the lingering loss of her mama and her worries about her aging father. No one knows better than she does that you can’t pour from an empty cup, but holding on to the past is the only thing keeping the hope alive that her mama will return home one day.

Ava and Maggie soon find they’re kindred spirits, as they’re both haunted—not by spirits, but by regret. Both must learn to let go of the past to move on—because sometimes the waves of change bring you to the place where you most belong."

Also knee deep in Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls which is certainly interesting in which I still don’t know the names of our two protagonists – Just I and You in which each chapter bounces back and forth from when they meet to the present living within the walls of the imaginary town.

Dipped my toes into Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn and really want to dive in sooner than later. 

With Les Miserables, made it through “The Fall” which in the TOC is Book One of Fantine.  I've been documenting as I read, summarizing each chapter, and looking up real life events as well as definitions for some of the words. Hubby found his mom’s  much older Two Volume set and thinks I should be reading it instead of my version. Except I can’t write in it so not touching it because I’ll be tempted to.  It's also a different translation so it may be interesting to interchange between the two, but that means I’d be reading everything twice or thrice depending on how you look at it.

Bedtime read is slow going as I’ve had insomnia lately and so tired when bedtime comes,  falling asleep as soon as get into bed so reading of IceRiggers is slow going.  But wide awake come the witching hours so taking advantage of the sleepless times to write posts or in journals until get sleepy again around 6 a.m. At least I don’t have to be up until 9:00  which is good.

Have bookmarks in several non fiction books so snatching a few minutes reading which ever one suits my mood.  

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