Hi Friends,
Do you ever have one of those weeks when you come unstuck from reality? You get home from the grocery store and realize a key item is missing, even though you remember putting it in the bag? Electronic devices short out and beep erratically, and then you pick up the phone you hear a stranger’s conversation in the background? Late at night you hear something scratching its way out from your walls, but in the morning there’s no trace of it?
I’m having one of those weeks. Partly, I think it’s because my husband is quarantining in our upstairs, so I have that weird alone-but-not-alone sense from someone else walking around above me. And partly it’s that I’ve been watching a lot of paranoid historical dramas and reading thrillers. It’s probably good that classes start up next week and I’ll be around other people!
This Week I’m:
Reading: The Maidens and The Fury, both by Alex Michaelides. I don’t know how to rate these books. Both kept me up late tearing through pages, but ultimately both disappointed in their final twists. There were so many clues that went nowhere, narrators who were unreliable in unsatisfying ways, and b-plots tied up messily without the attention they deserved. Rounding up, I guess that’s a 3/5?
Watching: The Spanish Princess on Starz. It’s garbage and I’m eating it up.
Organizing: Emails. Deleting and unsubscribing to as many as I can during this down week.
Cooking: After many disappointing slow cooker roasts, today I’m trying one in a dutch oven. Wish me luck!
Take a Class with Me:
If you’re an Arlington / Boston / Cambridge local looking for a casual weekly writing group, check out my class, “Writing Fiction from Real Life.” This class is perfect for beginning writers, or anyone who wants to get started on some new creative writing. I promise I’m not nearly as weird in person as I have been in today’s newsletter! Class starts next Thursday.
Thanks for reading.
Kayleigh
Kayleigh, I thought The Silent Patient by Michaelides was one of the worst books I've ever read, and that includes my geometry textbook - twice.