Reading, Writing, and Me

You Are Here  by David Nicholls Overview:  Marnie and Michael are both sad, alone, and going through divorce. Cleo sees them both as deeply in need of saving, and she pulls these two friends from different parts of her life together on a hiking trip. While Michael just wanted to make his walk from coast to coast in peace, Cleo inserts herself into his school-break trip and invites a whole crew of her friends to help him reconnect with the world. She fancies herself a match-maker, but her pairings might not go the way she expects when they all set off down the trail. Overall: 3.5  Characters: 3.5 The only words that come to mind about this book is that it's aggressively fine. There's nothing glaringly wrong with it, but there's also nothing here that inspires any feeling, characters and the romance at the heart of the story included. Michael and Marnie might as well be the same person beyond their genders and the fact that he's from the North and is scared of the city, a...

I seem to write these posts every two months or so lately. But today, I felt like it was the right time to reflect back on my reading over both September and October. It's going to be more freeform than some of my past wrap-ups and include less stats, but I trust you'll be okay with that. I've had a wildly busy two months. September was busy at work, and then October felt like two entirely different months. One wrapping up my season at work and trying to get in as much hiking, hanging out with work friends who are scattering into the wind, and planning a whole spontaneous trip. The other taking said trip to Dublin, Edinburgh, and London for the last two weeks of the month. Let me tell you, the trip felt like its own month, even its own world in itself. Honestly, be stuck on planes and trains so often in the last two weeks is the only thing that's saved my reading progress.  September was actually a good reading month in the beginning. I was determined to get through som...