just finished: nothing. Last week was a challenge. But I’ve got a lot going, and I am looking forward to talking about some good books this week.
currently reading: There is a new Lisa Jewell out this week, and it’s amazing. The Night She Disappeared is about a young mother and her boyfriend who go to the house of an acquaintance after an evening hanging out in the pub together and then disappear. Her mother, who was watching her toddler son, is doing everything she can think of to find them. Which is a little heartbreaking. But I can’t wait to see what happens. I absolutely adored last year’s Invisible Girl, so I am looking for that same level of amazement in this one! I’m also listening to Charmed Thirds, which is the third in Megan McCafferty’s Jessica Darling series. It’s the summer after Jessica’s first year at Columbia, and she’s home for a little while before starting an internship. I’m not too far in yet, but I love this character, and I can’t wait to see what happens in her summer. I’ve also started reading Erin Hahn’s newest Never Saw You Coming, about a couple of church kids whose parents make big mistakes. It’s a companion book to More Than Maybe, which I loved. I’ve just read a couple of chapters so far, but it’s so readable! Loving it!
up next: more cookbooks! But this one’s for this week, and I am loving it! Vallery Lomas is a lawyer-turned baker (so you know she’s smart) and a Louisiana native whose spent some time in Paris, so we get some Southern baking goodness and some sophisticated French pastries. It’s no wonder she won her season of The Great American Bake Off. You know who lost that season? All of us! It’s the season that got cancelled when the #MeToo movement kicked chefs like Johnny Iuzzini right in the career. And since he was one of the judges that season, ABC chose not to air the show after the first 2 episodes that ran back-to-back its first night. But they did film the entire season, and she was the one who won, and she went on to keep baking and to write a cookbook about her baking influences and about what happened with the show and in the aftermath of its getting pulled by the network. As a fan of the show and of baked goods, I am enjoying this book so much, and I hope Lomas gets all the attention from it that she deserved from her hard earned win.
