Dec 13, 2023
This week, we're in the thick of it, busy with all the things
the holiday season brings to little retail shops like ours. It's a
stressful time. So, Sam's been reading the Magicians, along with
the Magician King and the Magician's Land, as a bit of comfort
reading. He's discovered he's not being mocked by them. But don't
worry! Hannah's been reading more substantive fare, including "We
Must Not Think of Ourselves," which left her "really seriously
crying, in a way that I love." Author Lauren Grodstein is
her former writing teacher from Brooklyn, too. Then we get
into a little segue on buying poetry — Sam's been reading Betsy
Sholl and Phil Kaye and enjoying them immensely.
In her audiobook listening this week, Hannah was a bit underwhelmed
by "The Other Half," a mystery that has what feels like a betrayal
at the end, but "The Frozen River," by Ariel Lawhon, a book set in
Hallowell, Maine (though it wasn't Maine yet), is a lot more
enjoyable, with a midwife, and a murder trial, and so much more.
Just give it some time to get past the archaic dialogue.