Reading and Eating
This week I finished The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada. It’s considered a classic in the genre, and while I appreciated the ingenious puzzle, the writing seemed kind of clunky. Maybe something was lost in the translation? Anyway, I’m glad I read it, but I think I’ll take a break from Japanese mysteries for a while. Here’s my reading schedule for the rest of the week- finish The Whispers and the book club chapters of I Capture the Castle (if you need details for the Cool Bloggers Book Club, check out Engie’s post..) On Saturday I leave for Texas, and I only want to bring one book with me, and that’s Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants. My son and I are driving there, then I’ll be flying back, and that will be a VERY long travel day. There’s only one thing we don’t love about Baylor University- it’s not convenient to fly in and out of Waco. For the return journey I’ll take a bus to Austin, and fly from there to Ft. Lauderdale. Because of the bus schedule, I had the choice to take an earlier flight that would require a tense Uber ride from the bus station and then a frantic run through the airport; OR, a later flight that will mean spending the afternoon waiting at the airport. Er- I’ll take the second option. It will be a day of reading! A 985 page book will be perfect. Let’s move on to eating! Today will be all about food prep for the trip. We always bring breakfast and lunch for the two days in the car, but this year we’ve decided to bring dinner as well. Breakfast is always “breakfast tofu” (from the No Meat Athlete Cookbook) on bagels. Lunch will obviously be the Cool Bloggers Chickpea Salad, from Nora Cooks.. For the first day of driving, we’ll bring homemade pizza for dinner. On the second day- unless something goes horribly wrong- we’ll arrive in Waco and have access to a microwave, so I’m making the Marry Me Chickpeas, again from Nora. I guess that’s a lot of chickpeas. But that recipe looks delicious, and we love chickpeas. I’m excited for the trip, and lots of good eating and reading! Are you participating in the CBBC? Have you started the book yet?