Lara Zielin

STATUS: Generally Milled. I totally miss that old cereal, Boo Berry, and I’m joining the campaign to bring it back. In the meantime, I’m ordering it directly from the manufacturer. Blue food is normally kind of gross, but not in this case.

I started a yoga class this week and I gotta say, I’m totally hooked. I wish I could do yoga every day! It makes me feel really centered, relaxed, and focused. I told Rob, it calms me down enough so I think I might actually be able to handle having a kid. Which is hilarious. Because I’m still not convinced I want them. No baby bugs here. Sorry, Deb. (Deb is my sis-in-law who REALLY wants Rob and me to produce offspring. She also has five kids of her own, whom she handles like a goddess).

Calming my mind feels exceptional, especially since my thoughts have been ricocheting off the sides of my brain like one of those bullets you see in cartoons – the kind that wind up going everywhere except the intended target. Case in point: I’ve started, like, a million books lately and I can’t finish a single one of them.

The first was WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, which I put down because the protagonist didn’t resonate with me. Not even a little. I found myself profusely bored, despite the circus environment, the travel, and some potential romance. Second book: THE SWEET POTATO QUEEN’S FIRST BIG-ASS NOVEL. Fabulous title. And I’ve heard great things about the SP non-fiction, though I haven’t read it. But the novel? Ugh. It blasted through decades, stories, and characters, skimming the surface of things but never getting deep into meaty issues. Bummer. Third book: WICKED. I know it’s a NYT best-seller. What’s wrong with me? I found it totally confusing. There were descriptions and situations I didn’t understand, not to mention castes and languages, but not in a good LOTR kind of way. In a confusing WTF kind of way. And maybe I wasn’t ready to see Oz, or the Wicked Witch, in a new light. Maybe I’d like the musical more.

I’m moving on to non-fiction now. I have THE CULTURE CODE in front of me and I’m hoping this will be a better read. And if that fails, then I’m going back to re-reading Harry Potter.

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