I’m not here with venue advice this time.
Instead, I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to get caught in the constant stream of to-dos, decisions, and noise that comes with planning… well, anything. Sometimes what you actually need isn’t another checklist—it’s a break. A real one.
Consider this your permission slip to step away for a bit and disappear into a really good book.
I read a lot of books. (If you didn’t know that about me, now you do. I actually co-host a book podcast called The Currently Reading Podcast.) And these are three fictional worlds I’ve fallen into recently that did exactly what I needed them to do: they gave my brain somewhere else to be for a while.
I picked this one up expecting it to be fine and ended up completely unable to put it down. It’s set in the English countryside and follows a group of women navigating marriage, money, and reinvention with so much wit and warmth that you’ll feel like you just spent a long weekend with the funniest people you know. No murder, no trauma, just pure delight.
Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
Yes, this is a retelling of Cinderella from the stepmother’s perspective, and yes, it is so much better than that sounds. Hochhauser turns the cartoon villain into a fiercely protective, twice-widowed woman desperately trying to hold her family together in a world that keeps taking things from her. It’s smart and surprising and I genuinely didn’t want it to end. I want a tattoo of the last line of the book somewhere on my body. It’s that good.
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
If you need a book that grabs you by page two and does not let go, this is it. Two best friends host a wildly popular survival-story podcast until one of them disappears and the other becomes the prime suspect. It’s a thriller wrapped in a love story, and it’s one of those reads where you will absolutely stay up past your bedtime.
TO-DO FOR YOU THIS WEEK:
Pick one. Just one. Download it, order it, grab it from the library. And sometime this week, give yourself an hour where you close the laptop, silence the phone, and just read. You’ve earned it.
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