Reading, Writing, and Me

Jane and Dan at the End of the World  by Colleen Oakley (on sale March 11) Overview: Jane and Dan's marriage is on the rocks by their nineteenth wedding anniversary. When Dan wins a reservation to the most exclusive restaurant in Southern California, they break their tradition of going to Macaroni Grill to have a date night surrounded by celebrities and billionaires. Jane's plan to ask for a divorce makes the dinner tense, but this is escalated when the restaurant is taken hostage by terrorists. As the night goes on, Jane starts to realize this terror plot feels exceedingly familiar as she starts to put the pieces together back to her only published novel from six years ago. Overall: 4 Characters: 4 Jane's voice is the strongest in the book. The chapters alternate between her perspective and Dan's, and a part of me wishes that she'd just stuck to Jane's because it feels so much more embodied than Dan's. Still, that balance doesn't really detract from the...

I'm going to be on planes a bit more than I'm used to this year, so I thought that I'd start a fun series around the books that I've downloaded to make sure I can't possibly run out of entertainment on the plane. For context, I'm flying to New York to see A Streetcar Named Desire at BAM and see my grandmother for 2 days in the city, four days gone with flying, so the time in the air will be a lot of the trip! From where I live, it's about 4.5 hours there and 5 hours back (I guess the winds are bad?), so it's not an insignificant amount of time I'll have to entertain myself. I am glad that I managed to get direct flights, though, to lower the stress of having multiple connections go right. With airport time, I'll have over 10 hours to dedicate to reading if I can focus for that long, so I wanted to make sure my Kindle was stuffed with options.  I know this number of books is total overkill, and I won't be able to read anything close to all of ...