Happy Sunday bookish peeps!
This week’s Bookish Wrap Up is linked with the Sunday Salon and the Sunday Post.
The Sunday Salon is a meme hosted by Readerbuzz and is a place to link up and share what you have been doing during the week. It’s also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. While the Sunday Post is a meme hosted byCaffeinated Reviewer and is a chance to share news. It’s a post to recap the past week on your blog and share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead.
Non-bookish things:
This week, I’ve been working in the jungle…not really …I have been re-potting all of my houseplants which is kind of the same. I have some plant babies that I have had for years, one that almost touches the roof, and I have purchased and planted up a few more to add to that jungle vibe. My meditation room is particularly filled with greenery, adding to the lovely calming feel of one of my favourite rooms in the house.
The house itself remains mostly unfinished.
I have recently decided to take a ‘room by room’ approach, beginning with decorating our bedroom and ensuite. There is a green theme happening in there too, with new linens, décor items and of course more plants and I’m currently on the hunt for the final pieces before I paint. I feel like I still need to find the perfect rug and some artwork before I can choose a paint colour that ties it all together. I am very much considering creating my own artwork and have been collecting inspiration from all kinds of places.
Bookish things:
This week I did less reading than I would normally do, reading only one complete book and starting another.
Here’s what I read:
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum – ★★★★★
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different “against all odds” survival story, gleefully finding the weird, life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy’s experience with severe narcolepsy, they’ve been the best friends everyone wants to befriend—and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy’s husband, Xander, they’ve built a lucrative empire.
The problem is, their next survival story may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy and Xander’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the couple’s disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of Joy’s memoir. Benny will stop at nothing to find them, even as the police zero in on him as their prime suspect.
Millions of devoted listeners think they know the “real” Benny and Joy. But as the hours tick by, and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets their favourite famous BFFs have hidden from the world—and from each other.
My thoughts: This Story Might Save Your Life was an interesting blend of suspense and second chance romance. Bought to life by narrators Julia Whelan and Sean Patrick Hopkins as Joy and Benny, it was compelling listening.
Using dual timelines in the past and the present, the author was able show the depth of Joy and Benny’s friendship; how they had grown together and how they would do anything for each other. I loved the snippets of the podcast that were shared; the pairs’ bond evident in their banter.
Once Joy and her husband, Xander disappear, and Benny starts unravelling, searching for clues in previous podcast episodes and Joy’s memoir manuscript, I was hooked. Although it had been clear to me who to suspect from early on, I was captivated, desperate to know all the answers. How did all the pieces fit together? Was there someone else involved? How would it be resolved?
Without sharing any spoilers, the ending was exactly right. If you haven’t read it yet, consider listening to it…highly recommend.
And that’s my bookish week. How was yours? What have you been reading?
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Happy Sunday!