Reading, Listening and Writing – How Can I Balance It All ?
What I am discovering over the last few days is that as I write more and more posts, I am reading less and less. And I am not thrilled about that trade-off.
Saying that, if I read four more books in the remainder of November and December. I will have read 52 books in 2020. That of course is one book a week and I think that’s pretty good. However, my goal was 60 books and I would like to get a little closer to that goal.
So over the next few days I’m going to need to set up a daily schedule that provides time to read and also write posts.
Now setting up a schedule and sticking to it is something my ADHD brain needs, but has through the years never had! But after reading and hearing that setting schedules do help people with ADHD I think it’s worth a shot. I will try to write a post at The Amelioration Project about what I will be using to set up this schedule.
But for right now let’s look at what I’ve recently read and what I will be reading over the next month.
Books 45-47 read in 2020 are shown in the above picture. What follows is a little about…..
Book 45 Home Before Dark – Riley Sager
This is the second book I’ve read written by Riley Sager. The first was Final Girls which I read earlier this year. Both were outstanding books.
Home Before Dark revolves around Baneberry Hall in the woods of Vermont. The rambling Victorian Estate also known as House of Horrors. The House of Horrors name comes from the super successful memoir written by Ewan Holt which recants his family’s horror filled 28 day stay in the house. Much of the action in the memoir centered around the 8 year old daughter in the family Maggie. Maggie throughout the family’s ordeal saw abs played with ghosts and even had her life threatenedp!
Throughout the next years of her life Maggie lived in the shadows of the book. Upon her father’s death Maggie discovers he never sold the house and now she has inherited Baneberry Hall. Now Maggie returns to Baneberry Hall to renovate it for resale.
Maggie has always been told that, while the House of Horrors was written as a nonfiction memoir, in truth it was fiction. However, Maggie has always questioned that because she has vague memories from the past! And now as strange occurrences start to occur straight out of the book Maggie questions what is real and what’s fiction even more.
Home Before Dark alternates between Maggie’s homecoming and chapters from House of Horrors. And Sager keeps the tension up and Maggie’s quest to determine what’s fact or fiction isn’t answered until the final pages!
Home Before Dark has received a 4.17 rating at Goodreads My rating was 4. While I really liked the book I wasn’t blown away by it. At some point I had an inkling of what was happening. With that being said, the ending did surprise me. So a really good book but not a really great book! At least in my humble opinion. So Check It Out!
