No Complaints

Two weeks without assigned reading has left me scrambling to read as many page-turners as possible. In no particular order, these did not disappoint:

The High Season by Judy Blundell

“Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicked it free, you had nothing that held you up.” 

I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi 

“Never complaining, I recently learned, is different from having no complaints.”

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

“That was how she’d once viewed her perfect life: as a series of bad smells and unfulfilled duties, petty worries and late bills.” 

The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger

“If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.” 

And I was even able to check off a reading challenge - an epistolary novel. 

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

“But there are other faculty here on campus who are not disposed to see notable scholarship ignored; and let it be known that, in the darkened, blood-strewn caverns of our offices, we are hewing our textbooks and keyboards into spears.”