Books of March

Hello friend,

I only managed to finish one book this month. For some reason I’ve had a hard time concentrating lately. I wasn’t even particularly busy, just restless.

That said, I finished one book and I loved it. It’s called I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Here’s the Amazon blurb because I’m too lazy to say anything different: 

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.

Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.

It sounds bleak, I know! But it’s a super fast, interesting read.

Here are the books that I started but did not finish: 

• Theo of Golden by Allen Levi - too sweet

• Moderation by Elaine Castillo - too grim

• The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life by Joseph Jebelli - message received by chapter three. I decided to rest instead of finishing the book.

• Bhagavad Gita - I was supposed to read this for Yoga Teacher Training - I found it insufferable and could not finish. I watched some youtube videos on the topic instead.

The Indiana girl in me wants the above authors to know that my inability to get through your books says nothing about their worthiness. I was just in a mood. 

OH! I forgot to mention. I’m also about halfway through 11.22.63 by Stephen King. It’s roughly five million pages long so if I manage to finish it, I’ll let you know.

xo, L