The Sunday Salon (May 30)

I can’t believe how fast this year is flying by. Seems like just yesterday we entered the new year.

This week I got a bunch of reading done. I finished reading “A Tailor-Made Bride” by Karen Witemeyer, and started into “Jesus” by Marcus J. Borg. But, yesterday I made the decision that I wasn’t going to finish reading “Jesus“, because I just wasn’t into it, right now. Ever have a book where you keep putting it down to go do something else, in a sense procrastinating with it? That’s what I was doing with this book. So, I think it’s just not the right time for me to be reading it. That, and it was making me mad. While I can overlook some of the invalid theology, other stuff just gets my goat. So, again, I’m going to put this book aside (send it back to the library), and put it on my “maybe try again later” list. It’s too bad, too, ’cause I was really looking forward to reading this one.

Next up will be “Wiped: Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator” by Rebecca Eckler. It’s my face-to-face book club’s pick for June, and will be our last discussion book for this “year” (we take a break for July & August, then make up our list in September, and start back into reading & discussing in October). Here’s the description of the book from Amazon.ca:

After her little bundle of joy, Rowan (a.k.a The Dictator), arrives, Rebecca Eckler wonders when the promised “rewarding” part will kick in. She wasn`t supposed to trade in tight jeans for baggy sweatpants, or give up the dream of sound sleep and a passionate sex life. Yet even in the throes of her exhaustion, Eckler gleans and shares some sound advice for modern moms, including everything you need to know on:

The Diaper Genie: “It`s been six weeks and we have yet to use this `must-have` baby item because we can`t figure out how the damn thing works.”

Achievement: “No matter how well I had done in school, no matter what my career accomplishments were, my mother had never been so proud of me as when I gave birth.”

Keeping up appearances: “How is it possible that I haven`t had a drink in months, yet I still look worse than I ever did hungover?”

The effectiveness of baby monitors: “You can hear a baby screaming through walls. Unless you live in the Taj Mahal and place your baby at the other end of the palace, there is no way you won`t hear her cry.”

Size matters: “I had made the mistake of trying on a pair of pre-pregnancy jeans, which I couldn`t get up past my knees. It was the worst decision I have ever made.”

With the same dry wit as in her hilarious chronicle “Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be”, Eckler sets the record straight on being a new mom: the highs, the lows, and the sheer bliss that comes when you`re dealing with the demands of someone who`s not very large, but undeniably in charge.

It sounds really cute, and I hope it’s as good as I expect!

Here’s to another week of good reading!

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