What I lived
18,000 pages read
500 vlogs watched
150 podcast episodes
150 home-cooked dinners
75 masks sewn
71 Amazon orders
60 books
47 emails to Friend Denice
45 journal entries
30 restaurant take-out dinners
15 Revive & Thrive deliveries
17 Facetime visits with grandkids
12 stitched kitties
10 blog posts written
9 months
8 days camping
6 pedicures
5 haircuts
5 online meditation groups
4 trunks full to Goodwill
3 embroidery projects
1 flu shot
1 pound gained
1 sweet ol’ kitty euthanized
0 colds or sniffles (Can you say, “Masks?!”)
What I read
Tattooist of Auschwitz ◈ Keeper of Lost Things ◈ Doomsday ◈ Southern Discomfort ◈ Lost Girls of Paris ◈ Widow Nash ◈ Becoming ◈ Bridge of Clay ◈ Olive, Again ◈ Evie Drake Starts Over ◈ The Dutch House ◈ A Single Thread ◈ Incomplete Revenge ◈ Radium Girls ◈ Lager Queen of Minnesota ◈ Hidden Valley Road ◈ A Woman of No Importance ◈ The Testaments ◈ Brutal Telling ◈ Bury Your Dead ◈ State of Wonder ◈ Law of Similars ◈ March ◈ Handmaid’s Tale ◈ Shine, Shine, Shine ◈ Making Toast ◈ Man Against Insanity ◈ Non Violent Communication ◈ White Queen ◈ The Friend ◈ Niagara Falls All Over Again ◈ Flight Behavior
To the best of my recollection, this list makes up the first six months of pandemic reading. My favs are linked; non-fiction is bolded. (Some titles from the Maisie Dobbs and Louise Penny series are included, but I didn’t link those–even though they are well-loved–because they are like Old Friends and I’m biased in their favor.) I’ve read almost half again as many titles since the end of summer, but more on those another day.
This is my symphony 