Reading Update
I have begun two more books (surprise, surprise): How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price (and yes, I understand the irony of writing about it on my phone), and Todas las Familias Felices by Mercedes de Vega.
How to Break Up With Your Phone
I’m reading this one for reasons probably very obvious, as I’d like to support this new reading journey of mine with less time on technology, mindlessly scrolling. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy a mindless scroll now and then, but I want to limit that time so as to put more time into new passions of mine. This also stems from an ongoing goal of increasing my attention span—it’s not what it used to be!
Todas las Familias Felices
This one, I purchased several years ago in Spain, with the intention to mark it up and translate as I go to increase my fluency. I never ended up getting into it and now, like my attention span, my Spanish is not quite what it used to be. I spent about an hour today just translating and reciting the intriguing first page of the novel. I am hoping this gets quicker and easier as I move through the book. It’s already improving both my confidence with Spanish and my vocabulary. Seriously, you would not believe how much garage vocab I learned today!
Interestingly enough, the title is taken from a quote of Leo Tolstoy’s, in Anna Karenina. I had already been toying with the idea of reading that one, but consider it officially on the reading list! (I should have snagged it when I picked up War and Peace at Half Price Books the other day.)












