Phew, it’s Friday! I’m so happy cause it’s been a long week and I have a lot of fun things planned for this weekend. I’m also treating myself to decorating for Christmas tonight. It’s my favorite time of year and I want to enjoy it for as long as possible! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with decorating early. Thanksgiving and Christmas have such similar philosophies of being thankful for what we have and reflecting on the year.
It was also the first snow in NYC yesterday. I shared a little of NYC in the snow on my instagram stories, so if you’re not following me there you definitely should be!
Books Finished: A Spark of Light
So I want to do a more in depth review, but I feel like I’ve been holding onto my thoughts of this book all week. Basically, I didn’t like the structure. I think it was an important story to be told, but I really wish Picoult had stuck to her typical formula. I just wasn’t wild about how she went about telling the story backwards…I feel like we lost a lot of the depth we usually get from her writing and I ended up very confused on if this book was actually pro-choice or not.
If you don’t know, A Spark of Light is about a shooting and hostage situation at an abortion clinic in Mississippi. There are multiple character perspectives like in Picoult’s other books, but all told from a single third person voice as opposed to the individual chapters told in the first person. I actually really didn’t like this style at all. I felt like we were missing so many pieces of this puzzle.
I did like the big reveal at the end as to why all these people were there that morning, because there are so many different reasons why women seek the advice of health care professionals when it comes to reproductive health. However, I think this was a missed opportunity to really delve into the issue that abortion is not a one-stop issue; women does not decide to terminate a pregnancy lightly.
Overall, I was disappointed. Small Great Things was one of my favorite books of 2017 and took such delicate topics to the surface in a brilliant, poignant way. I flew through it, so it is a quick read, but I just felt like I was missing so much when I finished it. 3.5/5 stars from me.
Currently: Seven Days of Us and This Christmas
Next Up: Winter in Paradise
New Releases: Becoming by Michelle Obama. I’m DYING to read this book but I’m on a book buying ban for November…I don’t know if I can hold out until the holidays!
Weekend Goal: Finish Seven Days Us!
Weekend Plans: Decorate the Christmas, go to the NYC Christmas markets with my friend Meghan, and then Sunday is Meghan’s Harry Potter birthday party!
Recommendation: Go see Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald! I loved it so much more than the first one. Although I did see a friend post about it after seeing it last night and he said he has a lot of strong, confused opinions. Let’s see what you all think!
What are you doing this weekend?
Read and Wright 
My girls and I saw the movie last night. We enjoyed it, but found it confusing as well. We felt there were way too many people/subplots introduced.
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