InnerTeub

My library holds have been coming at me in force – books put on hold months ago all popping up at the same time – and I’m plugging through like it’s my job. (It is not, sadly, my job.) After a long spell of not really loving any books out there, it’s been so wonderful to read a bunch in a row that have left me captivated.  I just finished Divergent, and OH how I loved it. It was as captivating as The Hunger Games, but I think I liked it even more, mostly because I liked the two main characters much, much more. (For those that have read this book: FOUR, amirite?) (I am right.)

Speaking of books, a girl I knew a while ago just wrote and published her first book: The Me Years. I love the premise of this book – girl in mid-twenties dating the wrong people and taking the time to figure out what matters to her in terms of faith and values and yada yada…mostly I just like the title because I really do consider those years in my twenties (she says, with an air of authority, now that she is all of thirty years old) as my “me years” – responsible to no one and nothing, spending time figuring what was interesting to me – did I want to spend my weekends out and about partying, or did I want to spend them on a bike training for an Ironman? Did I want to join this club or that club or work 80 hours a week to get ahead and do it without feeling guilty about being absent? Looking back, it really was a great handful of years to just trial and error through the way I wanted to live my life, and I think a book written by someone who is better than me at writing about these things would be really interesting.

HOWEVER. This girl I knew awhile back? I knew her because she dated my brother. And my brother has a role in this book. And while my brother and I frequently discuss our relationships, it’s VERY HIGH LEVEL and while I appreciate being close to him and all, I kind of don’t think I need to uhhh, read too much detail about his relationships, amirite? (I am right.)

So anyway, this is all my way of saying: Will some of you go read that book for me and let me know if it’s sibling appropriate? I’d really appreciate it.