Musing Monday | Aug. 21

Time for another Musing Monday! This is a weekly thing hosted by The Purple Booker and asks you to answer two reading-related questions each week.

The first of these questions is one of the following:

• I’m currently reading...
  Up next I think I’ll read…
  I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
  I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
  I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
  I can’t wait to get a copy of…
  I wish I could read ___, but…
  I blogged about ____ this past week…

And the second is a random question each week.

This week's random question is: Do you steer away from heavy emotional books?

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I'm currently reading...

I'm actually in the middle of three books at the moment! One of them is required summer reading for school, one of them is a classic novel, and one of them is just a "for fun" read. The required reading is On Writing by Stephen King, the classic novel is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, and the "for fun" read is Now I Rise by Kiersten White. My favorite so far is definitely the latter, and I actually may end up DNFing the Hemingway novel. I just can't really get into it at the moment, but maybe someday?

Do you steer away from heavy emotional books?

Not purposefully! I actually really like books that make me feel something! Like the Purple Booker mentioned in her post, if an author succeeds in making me tear up or get misty-eyed, I'm actually more likely to pick up another book of theirs in the future!

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I woke up early to see the Eclipse this morning, it was so beautiful! I live near a field, so we had close to a hundred people from our neighborhood watching it together in the field, it was a lot of fun. The rest of my day is free, though, so I'm probably going to try to get some more reading done! Have a great day!