My parents are in town, and we’re celebrating my birthday week with some quality time and dinners together. My sisters and I are taking turns hosting, and tonight we’ll head to Waypoint, a small-plates restaurant. Its our first time having a babysitter come watch the kids, which I know is a bit ridiculous because of how old Charlotte is. We’ve managed to squeak by with my sisters helping out primarily, but maybe it’s also a sign that we don’t get out enough.
Here’s what I’m eating, reading, and enjoying this week:
What I’m Enjoying This Week
A few new podcasts have been on frequent rotation for me, including By the Book (a podcast that lives out the self-help advice of best sellers and comments on how helpful or not these books are – it’s hilarious and warm and open) and Best of Both Worlds (about loving our work lives and our mom lives). Highly recommend.
This post on invisible older women.
Looking in to getting a new teapot (and drinking more of the Earl Grey tea I loved when I was younger). Currently thinking the Denby ones are nice but I’m still undecided.
Weekly Menu Plan
Sunday: Kale and chicken pasta bake
Monday: Leftovers
Tuesday: Leftovers (seriously, Sunday’s recipe made so much)
Wednesday: Chicken piccata over spaghetti with green beans (highly recommend!)
Thursday: Pesto chicken with white beans and roasted carrots
Friday: Hosted by my sister, she made a walnut-crusted salmon
Saturday: Hosted by my sister, she made a garlicky pasta with baguette and salad
Book Review
Title: Lethal White
Author: Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)
Date: 2018
Format: audio book
I’m a fan of J. K. Rowling and a fan of this series, and I’ve streamed all four books as audiobooks, which I’ve really enjoyed. As exciting and entertaining as this latest book is, it also isn’t her best in the series. The pace was noticeably slower than the earlier books, although not at all boring. Instead, much of the focus was on the detective work, the conversations, and of course the relationships that became so muddled in book 3. There were far fewer close calls and cliff hangers.
I’ve had a lot of fun reading some mysteries and thrillers this winter, and I’d recommend all of the Cormoran Strike books. I also noticed the size and length of this fourth novel was pretty long. It seems she’s repeating the pattern of ever-longer novels and backstories as the series progresses.
