- What with Patriot's Day and Easter this week, I had last Monday and Friday off, and I have this coming Monday off as well. Final projects for school are keeping me busy so I spent my time off doing work in my "mobile office" as Miss Sarah of Girls and Bicycles calls it.
AKA I went to the Dam Cafe. It's basically the only cafe in my whole town. I miss having the options of Rao's or Amherst Coffee or Cushman when I was doing my undergrad, but I like the atmosphere and they have really good lunch food if I don't feel like going home for lunch.Monday looked like this:
Baseball game going on in the park.
Loving riding in the bike lane.
Obligatory panda shot.
Baseball game going on in the park.
Loving riding in the bike lane.
Obligatory panda shot.And then here's Friday:
A stack of library books, a latte, my notebook and my favorite pen. I was incredibly productive. I'm also thrilled by the fact that not only can I get books from any public library in Western Massachusetts through interlibrary loan (I just requested Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Dream Country to join in the I Will If You Will book club at Monkey See), BUT I can also take out any book from Mt. Holyoke library since I'm a Simmons GSLIS West student, and from Amherst College and UMass libraries because I'm a resident of one of the counties adjacent to them. It's great! So I currently have 4 library cards and I have books checked out from 3 different libraries.
A stack of library books, a latte, my notebook and my favorite pen. I was incredibly productive. I'm also thrilled by the fact that not only can I get books from any public library in Western Massachusetts through interlibrary loan (I just requested Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Dream Country to join in the I Will If You Will book club at Monkey See), BUT I can also take out any book from Mt. Holyoke library since I'm a Simmons GSLIS West student, and from Amherst College and UMass libraries because I'm a resident of one of the counties adjacent to them. It's great! So I currently have 4 library cards and I have books checked out from 3 different libraries.It was a little chilly on Friday, so here were my shoes of choice:
If you're wondering what I've been reading lately (aside from textbooks and articles about library research) the answer is The Mysteries of Udolpho, a gothic novel with suspense and the supernatural and castles and romance, which I liked but didn't love; The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar which I absolutely adored, go read it; My Best Friend is a Wookie, a memoir about being a diehard Star Wars fan which I couldn't get into because I am not a huge fan of Star Wars; and now I've just started The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan which is about a Brahmin woman who is widowed in the early 1900s and challenges the rules about widowhood that existed at that time.
In college I took a course on South Asian women writers, which I loved, and I still really enjoy reading books about India and Pakistan and the like, so I'm sort of on a "fiction about Indian women" kick. I'll let you know how Toss of a Lemon turns out.
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