Glad Game 2019 - January 17

* finished books #5 and #6 (1 audio and 1 physical)

* started books #7 and #8 (1 audio, 1 physical)

* tripled water intake goal and did my walking goal.

* still glad I made up a week's worth of dinners and put them in the fridge. I hope to continue this treNd in the coming week.

a book review

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I admit that I had never heard of the author before picking this book for a reading challenge.

This short book (it's 2.33 hours as an audio) actually felt like an old friend talking about something we both love to do - read. How books can bring you back to moments in your life when you first read them, how books provide a great way to escape the mundane of the world, how books can help you find kindred spirits. Not to mention I laughed my way through the chapter on problems all book lovers face.

About the only real critique I have for the audiobook is that when it starts off, or when we get to a topic that the author feels strongly about (she is also the reader), she starts speaking really fast. I actually had to look to see what speed I was listening to it on and if I needed to bump it back down to 1.0 speed instead of my usual 1.25. But I was at 1.0 and she just talks fast when excited.

This what the book I was hoping for when I listened to Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult earlier in the month. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life certainly felt more joyous and nostalgic.



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Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus by Grant Morrison

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Another wonderful pairing of Grant Morrison's stories and Dan Mora's artwork.

Who do you call when global warming melts the ice caps enough to wake the Winter Witch? When a tyrannical soda company kidnaps people and gives them to an alien in exchange for power and glory?

Santa of course. But this Santa is not the one of Marketing Hype. He's the one and the same from Volume One - well built, ruggedly handsome, axe and sword weilding man with a sleigh driven by wolves.

Storywise, I liked volume one better, but the art work in this one appealed to me more.

Quick graphic novel read that I would recommend after reading the first volume.



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