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The Friday Five for March 5 and March 12
Mar. 11th, 2021 07:17 pmThe Friday Five for March 5
1) Where in the entire world would you love to be vacationing right now?
2) Where in your own home country or state would you love to be vacationing right now?
3) Where would you love to vacation later on this year when the weather is different?
I'm going to combine these three questions. Honestly, I'd like to be anywhere but here. In the before times, I thought that fall of 2020 was going to be my time to travel. The littles would be in kindergarten, my youngest would be starting college, I'd have a lot more time for what I wanted to do. There were vague plans of visiting North Dakota, New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Texas - all to spend some time with my favorite people.
4) Where are you likely to vacation this year?
Pittsburgh, where "vacation" will be hanging out in my bff's living room for the weekend. Potentially Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg - we've talked about getting a cabin for a week there in late summer/early fall, depending on how things go.
5) And next year? Next year is a National Youth Conference year. While it doesn't really count as a vacation because I'll be kinda working, it's not here and it's always a trip to remember. So, destination is Colorado State University in Fort Collins. But we're driving, so it'll be an adventure!
The Friday Five for March 12
1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual? Definitely more.
2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)? Right now I'm listening to the audiobook for The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, which I'm almost finished with. I'm reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe and Tower of Swallows from Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series.
3) What is the best book you read in the past few years? I've really enjoyed the Witcher series books. I also really liked the Passage trilogy from Justin Cronin, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, and The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark by Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, & Drew Forrester.
4) Do you read more than one book at a time, or just one? Multiple. I usually have at least one audiobook, one ebook, and one physical book going at a time.
5) How big is your to-be-read pile (or list)? Too big! It's never going to be finished, lol. I have a handy dandy spreadsheet of books I'd like to get/read, and there's probably a thousand books on there, and I still pick up books I think I might be interested in if I see them. It's a problem.
1) Where in the entire world would you love to be vacationing right now?
2) Where in your own home country or state would you love to be vacationing right now?
3) Where would you love to vacation later on this year when the weather is different?
I'm going to combine these three questions. Honestly, I'd like to be anywhere but here. In the before times, I thought that fall of 2020 was going to be my time to travel. The littles would be in kindergarten, my youngest would be starting college, I'd have a lot more time for what I wanted to do. There were vague plans of visiting North Dakota, New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Texas - all to spend some time with my favorite people.
4) Where are you likely to vacation this year?
Pittsburgh, where "vacation" will be hanging out in my bff's living room for the weekend. Potentially Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg - we've talked about getting a cabin for a week there in late summer/early fall, depending on how things go.
5) And next year? Next year is a National Youth Conference year. While it doesn't really count as a vacation because I'll be kinda working, it's not here and it's always a trip to remember. So, destination is Colorado State University in Fort Collins. But we're driving, so it'll be an adventure!
The Friday Five for March 12
1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual? Definitely more.
2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)? Right now I'm listening to the audiobook for The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, which I'm almost finished with. I'm reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe and Tower of Swallows from Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series.
3) What is the best book you read in the past few years? I've really enjoyed the Witcher series books. I also really liked the Passage trilogy from Justin Cronin, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, and The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark by Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, & Drew Forrester.
4) Do you read more than one book at a time, or just one? Multiple. I usually have at least one audiobook, one ebook, and one physical book going at a time.
5) How big is your to-be-read pile (or list)? Too big! It's never going to be finished, lol. I have a handy dandy spreadsheet of books I'd like to get/read, and there's probably a thousand books on there, and I still pick up books I think I might be interested in if I see them. It's a problem.
