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… is this about to be a new favorite?

I need recommendations for something fun and halfway decent to read, please!

“Large data centers, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, use up to five million gallons a day.
That's what a town of ten thousand to fifty thousand people uses per day.”

“Vulnerability cannot be solved; it can only be shared.”

“I’d rather have my daughters live by a different pace, one where it’s normal to encounter obstacles and pauses. During a break, whether caused by periods, illness, or responsibilities outside the realm of competition, I don’t want to be falling behind the people who haven’t stopped. I want room for both chosen and in chosen rests, the natural friction that composes a human life.”

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Book club! June 2026

Book club!! April 2026.

Once more for the classroom. It hits every time.

That feeling when … you pick up a Pulitzer Prize winner and you are hooked.

“If you take away one truth, the one thing in this book I know with certainty, let it be this: your life is a good gift from a loving God, even when subjectively it doesn’t feel good or like a gift, and even when you doubt that God is loving. Please get out of bed anyway.”

“We all suffer silent crises, carrying burdens that are incommunicable to those closest to us and occasionally even opaque to ourselves. Some suffer from diagnosed mental illnesses, some from undiagnosed, and some from mental suffering that has no medical categorization yet is no less real and terrible and hard. But your existence is good.”

Ok - I’m 37% of the way through and thinking, “These books are SO popular, there must be more to them than I am currently experiencing. Right? RIGHT?!”
Not sure I have the will to carry on.

Utterly delightful so far. But the library made me give it back! Marking the page number to remember…

Book club 2025!

Europe on $5 a day in the 1970s?! 😫

A delightful book to read 5 pages at a time in the early morning hours.

“Turns out it’s quite a thing growing another person. Who knew? …
Time started to bend. I was carrying the future inside me. I would learn that I was also carrying the eggs, already within my baby’s womb, that could go on to partly form my potential grandchildren. My future grandchildren were in some way inside me, just as part of me spent time in the womb of my grandmother … Time bends.”

Really interesting so far! Recommended by two friends as “the best parenting book”

Book club!