Rainy Day Reads

In my most recent library book haul I described this as “Desperate Housewives” in book form and I stand by that description.   This book is about a group of people, connected by the school that all their children go to. Jane, a newcomer, meets one of the other moms, Madeleine, and gets sucked into the politics of the school, when Madeleine takes her under her wing. Jane is nervous and shy so when the power-mom at the school accuses Jane’s son of bullying her daughter she finds it difficult to stand up for herself in the ensuing war. However, with Madeleine on her side she finds the courage to take a stand.  The book is written as normal prose interspersed with bits from an interview, apparently. We hear from most of the moms and some of the dads at the school and from a police inspector, who is determined to find out what happened at the quiz night. This quiz night is the crux of the story as something major happens here. We start the story going back 5 months o...

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...