Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I’ve been getting frustrated at all the books I haven’t been finishing lately, and yet the evenings have been crazy busy with all of the May things. The days have been busy too, honestly, but yesterday I found myself desperately in need of some downtime, and I decided to SIT AND READ in the middle of the day. (Something I almost never do.) Accordingly, I did just that–I also went to Costco and deleted some emails and such, mind you–which is why I get to review Terri Libenson’s Always Anthony before passing it on to my older girlies later today.

I enjoyed Always Anthony. I enjoyed it MUCH more than Libenson’s last ‘Emmie & Friends’ book, Surprisingly Sarah, as a matter of fact. (I really, REALLY didn’t like the ‘two storyline’ idea.) Anthony is a solid character–basically nice, but flawed in completely relatable ways–and I had plenty in common with Leah, who gets assigned to tutor him in Language Arts. Their burgeoning friendship was actually the biggest stretch for me, but I liked it as a plot line, and all of the difficulties Anthony and Leah face over the course of the novel make for both good reading and good modelling of behavior. I’m looking forward to the next one in the series (which just barely came out, I believe.) In the meantime, this weekend is seminary graduation, I just had brunch with my closest cousin on my mom’s side, and I’ve got both my washer and my dryer going. How’s your Friday?