Reading Life:
- Books finished: 11
- Best of the Month: The Girl with All the Gifts, Lincoln in the Bardo, March trilogy
- Times sobbed during Lincoln in the Bardo : Six, which was not as many as watching A Man Called Ove with my husband
- ARCs: 4 (Make sure to check out The Hideaway and Stars over Clear Lake)
- Books bailed on: 2
- Book club meetings: 2
- Times read Curious George Goes to the Beach: seventy kajillion
Writing Life:
- Edit letters received: 1
- Days spent staring at edit letters before getting back to work: 4
- Percentage better that work-in-progress will be with edit letter in mind: 110%
- Pages edited: 80/260
- Books about entomology read to improve work-in-progress: 2, with 2 more on the docket
Life Etc.:
- Bad haircuts received: 1
- Garden status: potatoes, peas, turnips, and onions in the ground; basil in a pot inside
- Packages of Twizzlers eaten entirely by myself: 1
- Number of eardrums ruptured in my household this month: 1
- Song currently stuck in my head: Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, because, of course, Joni Mitchell
All the best from here.
Rachel Mans McKenny 