Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki
I read this in May and then I read it again last month and I've flipped through it like a reference guide many-a-time in the last few weeks. Lots of parents I know have recommended it, from all styles of parenting, so I figured it would be the method to try.
While I was totally on board, Wells broke the mold and went off-book pretty early in the process so I was just left confused (hence the reference guide flipping).
So, yes. Totally worth a read. But your toddler may be unpredictable so don't use it as a bible of sorts.
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin 3 stars
This wasn't great. Initially, I thought it'd be like Sadie, but Sadie was way more compelling. In this case, I did not like the narrator. She came off as a Sarah Koenig rip-off. And those podcast excerpts were ridiculous...was that the whole episode? I mean, they just read like intros. I can't imagine subscribing to a podcast that gives me three minutes of information a week or something. Rachel was just unlikeable. There was also something weird about Pete being stuck in the hospital. I don't know. Clearly, I finished it but I wasn't impressed.
Currently, I'm reading...all of these. I just can't stick with/enjoy one book:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 1/3 of the way through
Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcy 1/3 of the way through (audio)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 50% through
And then my progress for 2020 so far...
I don’t know why I don’t just keep lists in Google Docs for everything. It’d make life a lot easier when it comes to counting up books in November. Every year for the last several years, I’ve found myself painstakingly clicking through my blog posts and keeping a tally sheet on scrap paper in front of me. For an organized person, I’m not *actually* that organized.
My goal this year was 48 books because I read 47 last year but many of those were audiobooks so I physically read more in 2020 than in 2019. In 2019, I struggled to just sit with a book (paper or kindle) and read. In 2020, I did a lot of sitting and reading when I could’ve been cleaning or organizing or watching TV. I started to just consider it valuable time well-spent in a way I hadn’t in a few years.
Toward the end of 2020, I began to realize that I’m an auditory learner. It’s why I like podcasts so much. I get a lot out of listening to someone explain to me. I downloaded Audible again and decided that my fiction reading was going to be hard-copy and my non-fiction could be audio. Reading nonfiction feels like a lot of work for me right now, so listening to it is a productive use of time.
My count for the year so far... 43 fiction - 3 DNF + 4 Nonfiction = 44 out of 48 books completed.
Fiction
The Night Swim
The Mall (DNF)
The Vanishing Half
Jane Doe
One to Watch
Home Before Dark
Pretty Things
The Guest List
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
Oona Out of Order (DNF)
Her Every Fear
It Ends With Us (DNF)
Final Girls
The Last Flight
Lock Every Door
The Last Time I Lied
The Red Tent
A Good Marriage
Tell Me Three Things
Invisible Girl
The Wives
This Won’t End Well
Eight Perfect Murders
Little Secrets
If I Never Met You
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
The Holdout
The List of Things That Will Not Change
In Five Years
Long Bright River
The Other Mrs.
The Dilemma
Such a Fun Age
Dear Edward
Regretting You
The Marriage Lie
Dead to Her
You Are Not Alone
The Family Next Door
Husband Material
Mrs. Everything
The Other Woman
Dear Wife
Oh Crap! Potty Training
Blackout
You’re Not Enough (and that’s okay)
Risen Motherhood.
