Hello friends,I'm back after taking an unplanned break. I did not go anywhere, just busy with daily life. Please tell me this happens to all of us, and I'm not alone. I have been entertaining company, taking day trips into NYC, the Hampton's, and Sleepy Hallow. Planning a trip to Europe and filling my summer calendar.
I have exciting news, I will be at the starting line of the NYC Marathon on November 2!
On the flip side, I'm having a crown put on a molar tomorrow morning, after waking up last week with a cracked tooth (ugh).
Reading: I have read a few books this month, a mix of fiction, and non-fiction. Signing up for a few book reviews, buying a few books, enjoying. What are you reading this week?
On the Island: I finished this today, reading it to and from NYC. It's creepy good but I needed to read it quickly since I had vivid dreams last night and hope to sleep tonight. Synopsis: When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.
Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
Random Acts of Kindness: I started this book tonight, I hope it's good! Have you read it?Synopsis: With the remnants of her past rattling in the trunk of her Chevy, Jenna Elliott abandons her Seattle home determined to start life anew.
Her journey compels her to the door of two friends, and what starts out as an impulsive road trip soon becomes an inexorable journey to their past, as the women grapple with who they were, who they are, and the strange twists that have now set them on the road to their hometown of Pine Lake.
There, Jenna discovers that her random act of kindness has rippled out into the world like a stone dropped into a deep pond, coming back to rock her life—and those of her friends—in ways they never expected.
