Two Reviews Postponed

(I don't believe that anyone other my darling husband is reading these posts, but that is quite all right... This is for him, as he is one of my biggest fans-)

I was hoping to have written two reviews this week. One of which I didn't get to even start reading. One I have yet to finish and one unexpected audio book that I started because I was bored with the back of my eyelids. This week threw me for a loop. More so than most weeks. In the past two weeks, my children have paraded conjunctivitis, ear infections, the common cold and sniffles through this house. I believed myself to have arrived on the other side unscathed, however I was wrong. My body turned on me and decided to play host to nasty germs that left me completely reeling and incapacitated.

So thankful for my long-suffering husband who took up the slack and let me heal. That being said, there was no energy left for reading and I wanted to listen to something that held my interest.

If you haven't heard of the podcast Books on the Nightstand then, you're welcome. If you are a rabid book reading fan and look forward to all things books and enjoy hearing what people in the publishing world have to say about the books they are reading and the books they know to be released soon, then you are in for a world of fun. And that is where I got the recommendation to LISTEN, yes listen, to Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last. Now, I am not one to listen to audio books. I don't believe I've ever listened to an audio book other than children's books on road trips and once during a bout of crazy cleaning a few years ago, I listened to The Art of War by Sun Tzu (which I believe to be a fascinating book from a parenting perspective if one would merely remove the word 'enemy' and replace it with 'children'). I guess I am Old School and feel that it's a form of cheating if you aren't trapped behind the wheel of a car or have been unfortunately blinded for life, in which case, it's a savior and a complete delight. So, up until now I haven't really allowed myself this opportunity, but seeing as how my eyes did not want to cooperate and I was forced to sit upright surrounded by pillows with an eye mask so my entire sinus system didn't implode and destroy my entire skull, I wanted to listen to something enthralling and quiet to distract me from my present state of unlovely affairs. It had popped into my head that it was reviewed by the lovely people of BOTNS and I recall that the ever insightful Ann Kingman, one of the reviewers of this podcast, made a comment that possibly something more in the listening to than the reading of this story might be derived than in one just reading it off the page. I was greatly intrigued by that thought and as a fan of Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, I tucked it away in the back of my mind for about a week until I could no longer read the book I had started reading a bit ago.

I have yet to finish either the audio book of Atwood's that I just started or the hardback of Night Film by Marisha Pessl so I can't give my definitive thoughts and overviews on their entirety just yet, but I can say that so far they are quite intriguing and each are diverse from the other and both are equally complex in completely different ways and I am quite glad that I am reading (and listening) to both of them. I am sure that by next week there will be reviews ready to go and a stack of my "To Read" to highlight for what's coming up.

Until then, Happy Reading and Happy Turkey Day Festivities!

xo

JMA