I’ve been keeping my nose buried in various books lately.
Ryan and I are both federal employees, so needless to say, we’ve been cutting back on a lot of things since we’re not sure how much longer we’ll both have jobs.
With that said, books have always been a cheap — if not free — source of entertainment for me, so I’ve been turning to reading a lot lately.
I’ve been trying really hard not to freak out about the thoughts of pending unemployment, so surrendering myself to my Kindle has been a huge boost for my mental health as well.
(As a reminder: I always track my reading on Goodreads.)
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HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE by Catherine Price
Recommend
I originally read this book back when I lived in Chicago as part of a book club I was part of, but recent events convinced me to give it a re-read. I love this book, and it’s full of valuable information as to how your smartphone is ruining your brain, and valuable advice as to how to redefine your relationship with your smartphone. If you — like me — struggle with letting your iPhone or Android control your life, definitely pick up this book. I love this book so much, in fact, that I wrote an entire post about some of the more valuable pieces from it, and how they personally helped me.
WHILE PARIS SLEPT by Ruth Druart
Recommend
This is the third World War II historical fiction novel set in German-occupied France that I’ve read recently (the others being “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr and “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah) and it touched all the right notes. It’s a bit of a long book but I fell headfirst into it and absolutely devoured it once I started it.
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL by Anne Frank
Recommend
I first read Anne Frank’s journal back in college after I had the privilege of visiting her secret annex during a spring break trip to Amsterdam. Anne, a teenage German Jew, spent two years documenting her time hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It’s impossible to not love the gregarious and confident Anne, who writes candidly about her time spent in hiding, her internal musings, her thoughts about the war and her impressions of her annex cohabitants.
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