Mommy Brain

I finished Redemption Wednesday night at 11:30, so I just snuck it in at the tail-end of the Winter Reading Challenge. It was good - 3 stars - but definitely nowhere near as good as Trinity. It could’ve been cut in half easily. And just when it got to the character’s storyline that I was most interested in, it was over. But it was still nice to see the Larkin family story end on some happy notes.

Last weekend, during the boys Tae Kwon Do promotion (not during their test, but when we were waiting through everyone else), I finished A Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary. Excellent book.

Last year, my mom picked up My Own Two Feet at a garage sale for me. When I started it a little while ago, I realized that it was part two of Ms. Cleary’s memoirs, so I set it aside and checked out the first part from the library.

The writing is very simple and direct, and I felt like I was growing up right along-side little Beverly. The farm she lived on in Yamhill, and the years in Portland during the Depression, the boyfriend her mother thrust upon her - I lived it all. Definitely a must-read - 5 stars. I am very excited now to continue on with part two of her story and find out how her writing career was started and what her college years were like.