Rainy Day Reads

I picked this book up in my most recent library haul, because I had seen it last year I believe, in a number of videos on Booktube. It had been nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. So maybe it was in 2015 I saw it on Booktube…time flies! This is about a woman who loses her family in a freak accident on the eve of her daughter’s wedding. Her boyfriend, her ex-husband, her daughter and her soon to be son-in-law all die in a fire caused by a gas explosion. The woman, June, finds it difficult to cope and almost immediately after the funerals she picks up and leaves in her car with no luggage and no plan.  Meanwhile we follow the rest of the inhabitants in the small town where tragedy struck, who all seem to be connected to the deceased in some way or other. Friends and family of course, but also the caterer and the florist for the wedding.  We slowly unravel the backstories of a number of the main characters and discover what led to the explosion. We get ...

Spoiler: I may have gone overboard…. I went to the library a few days ago and decided to really browse the shelves and pick up a good selection. And I feel like I succeeded… I picked up both fiction and non-fiction to give myself a wide selection to choose from.  Let’s start with non-fiction.  I picked up a couple of books on ways to go more green. “1001 Ways You Can Save the Planet” by Joanna Yarrow and “Green Makeover” by Maria Cuculiza. I have actually read “Green Makeover” before a number of years ago, but I just remember thinking it all seemed a bit of a hassle and I was too lazy to really implement any of the ideas given in this book. But as I have aged I have become more invested in living a less wasteful life and more dedicated to the environment and sustainability. I am still lazy, but I hope to find a few ways to clean up my act in these two books.  Then I picked up “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer because I’ve h...