I'm Reading The Correspondent, What are you Reading?
It started about three weeks ago. Friends started emailing me about it. A stranger in a bookshop recommended it. Then, I started seeing posts on social media. . .
“Have you read The Correspondent? I think you’d love it!”
“I just read The Correspondent. It was so good!
“You have to read The Correspondent!”
So, when I got another text from a friend about it last week, I took it as a sign, hopped on Libro, downloaded The Correspondent on audio, and started it while making dinner that night.
To be honest, I knew I would read The Correspondent eventually. It’s a book about three things I love—women who live into their seventies and beyond, writing for one’s own enjoyment, and the power of human connection. I was just waiting for the right time.
Now, I’m so grateful to everyone who recommended it. The right time is definitely now, for me at least. Because even though I’m only halfway through as of this writing, I’m falling hard for Sybil Van Antwerp’s shenanigans, her wit, her spunk, and how her story is going to turn out. I’m also starting to get the feeling that this book might be more than just a fun story to read. Something tells me there’s a lesson or two to learn here.
I especially love the way Sybil ends her letters to her closest friends with these words: “PS. I’m reading . . . . What are you reading?”
So I couldn’t help but celebrate those words in today’s correspondence to you. Because I’m always sharing what I’m reading with you, and I love each and every time you write back to tell me what you’re reading, too.
Here it goes—I’m reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans right now, and I’m loving it. I also just finished Sandwich by Catherine Newman, which was very good but I’m having mixed feelings about. And I’m technically still reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, but I’m taking a break because I had no idea it was about vampires when I started it and I’m not sure I can handle that right this moment. I’ve also been on a Jodi Picoult kick lately (which happens to me often), so after finishing Plain Truth last month (omg, so good!), I just started A Spark of Light last night and the first chapter hit me so hard I didn’t want to go to sleep (which is saying a lot for a person like me). I’m also still reading Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg on audio whenever I need to focus more on work stuff and not lose myself in fictional worlds :)
What are you reading?
Please write back—I’d love to know.
💛
Celeste
did AI write this? nope, this lady did ⤴ always💛