Catching Up

I’ve been concentrating on getting the first draft of my mystery novel finished – just one more chapter! – so my blog has been a bit neglected.

Here are a few things I’ve managed to do lately:

The 100 Day Project – Turns out I’m not as consistent as I thought I’d be in making a pair of earrings every day.  I’m constantly catching up but really glad my skills have been retained.  Since there are no hard and fast rules for this project, I’m happy to just be getting it done, whatever way works!

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Things I Like Thursday – The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

So, I’m either late or really early for holiday reads but who cares.  I loved this rom-com about a Jewish writer of Christmas rom-coms whose life turns into a rom-com when she’s pressured into writing a Hanukkah rom-com. 

Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is hiding her Christmas stories from her parents and her chronic fatigue syndrome from the world.  Jacob Greenberg runs a multi-million-dollar event business in Paris that masks his fear of abandonment.  They broke each other’s 12-year-old hearts at a Jewish summer camp 18 years before and have been archenemies ever since.

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