RaeAnna + A Nerdy Lifestyle
One Day in December was a surprise. It has the happy ending you want in a winter/Christmas novel, but it was complicated the way life and feelings and friendship are. Josie Silver didn’t simplify it. It's the must read book of holiday season. Picked by Book of the Month and by Reese Witherspoon for her book club.
I've decided to read too many books this month. I'm going to try and make it through eleven books by Christmas Day. We shall see if I can do it. All novels. All Christmas themed.
Alaskan Holiday is a really good example of what I don’t like in a book. Sappy romance, a pretend strong female character, bad grammar, terrible plot, and over all not put together well. Upside: there is a dog.
Stephen Hawking isn’t an anti-social genius. He’s brilliant, no doubt. He’s also witty, sarcastic, charming, and completely relatable in his book Brief Answers for the Big Questions, published posthumously.Â
Pat Barker retells the Iliad in The Silence of the Girls from a new and forgotten point of view: the women. Briseis was queen of a city before it fell making her a slave to Achilles. An entertaining story. Barker misses the mark for victims and survivors of abuse.
I like to shop local. I like to shop small business. When I can support a friend, it's even better! I stopped by my friend Natasha's pop-up, Burd and Burdie, in River Oaks to celebrate Small Business Saturday.