Pride Reading Month
I always struggle to sticking to just one book when reading, but I've decided to try and have a bit of focus at least on the topic of my reading for the next month. I'm no longer in Frederick (MD), but I am still close enough to frequent one of my favorite local bookshops, Curious Iguana.
(Short aside: if you do happen to have an old favorite local bookshop, but find yourself slightly outside the range of comfortable commute to said spot, the fine folks at Curious Iguana directed me to Bookshop. They allow you to support either local bookstores in general, or a specific one if available. I wouldn't normally trust something so blindly, but if the shop itself is directing me that way for items they don't have in stock, I'm going to listen.)
Their selection is small, but focused and their staff suggestions are always on point. By far their best suggestions, though, are their Pride and LGBTQ+ suggestions. I've discovered more amazing literature through their suggestions than in all my mindless scrolling through the front page of Goodread's suggestions.
So with that in mind, after crying my way through Fine by Rhea Ewing, I'm now started in on Fever by Jonathan Bazzi in a month long effort of reading Pride books.
Hopefully I'll stick with this daily format and I'll write out my thoughts on Fever as I read it. I had so many about Fine that I'm now struggling to recapture enough to express to others without just suggesting they read the dang thing.
Maybe all this will help my brain work things out a bit more, so that I retain things longer than it takes for me to close a book, browser tab, or door.