June 2022 First Reads

 Okay, June's choices: 

• psychological thriller - Blackout
  
• book club fiction - The Brighter the Light
  
• crime thriller - The Secret Witness
  
• women's fiction - Happy is on Hiatus
  
• memoir - Bookends
  
• domestic drama - A Gracious Neighbor
  
• contemporary fiction - This Way Out
  
• children's - Pink is NOT a Color 

 Thrillers aren't my thing, so that's two unlikely right there.  A few of the others look meh, and the library owns most of them anyway.  The Brighter the Light and This Way Out look like the best options.  Library has This Way Out on order, so I went with the other one. 

Happiness is new jeans

 For the first time in at least ten years, I went shopping for jeans and didn't come home cranky and discouraged.  Instead, I almost fainted from happiness - I found jeans that fit the way I want them to, they're 98% cotton (not 70% or less), and they have pockets that my whole hand will fit into.  And, to top it off, they weren't expensive to start with - $19.99 a pair - and they were on sale, 20% off!!  I did what I've sworn to do for the past few years, and bought 6 pairs in the slightly-too-big size, and another 5 in the slightly-too-small size, in hopes that I'll re-lose some of the pandemic weight I gained.