The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books!
This week I’m also participating in The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz, and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality.
The Past Week
In real life: I got home Wednesday night after a long day of travel. I was sad to leave Robin and my parents and sister and her family, but I’m glad to be home. I’ve missed my husband! I had two doctor’s appointments on Thursday. On Friday, I went back into town for a battery of blood tests. I have another yearly checkup with another specialist this coming week, and I need to schedule my mammogram and a couple of ultrasounds. Most of this is either routine yearly checks, or things that are currently fine but we’re keeping an eye on.
As soon as I got home, I wanted to start unpacking the stuff we stored in the basement during the renovations, but first I had to unpack from my trip. That in itself required moving our dressers back into place, which required putting felt on the feet… it’s like one of those square puzzles where you have to move one piece at a time, so you can move another one, so you can move a third piece. Oh, well, it will all get done eventually!
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 10/13/2024
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- COYER Unwind, Chapter 4 – Fall
- Sunday Post – 10/20/2024 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Treasures from the Hoard: The Sleeping Beauty, by Mercedes Lackey – review, tentative
- How My Reading Habits Have Changed Over Time – Top 10 Tuesday
- Sunday Post – 10/27/2024
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching (since 7/14/2024)
Reading: I finished rereading Dreaming Spies, book #13 in Laurie R. King’s historical mystery series starring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. I reread The Arrangement and The Escape and started Only Enchanting, books #2–4 of Mary Balgoh’s Survivor’s Club historical romance series, all three of which I have reviewed before (in 2013 and 2014.) And I continued reading The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling (ARC). I also read a few stories from Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik’s new short story collection (ARC.)
Watching: Before I left New Mexico, Robin and I watched My Neighbor Totoro, which I had never seen. We also started Have His Carcase, a BBC adaptation of the Dorothy Sayers novel, which is part of their Lord Peter Wimsey series; I will be finishing it at home.
Playing: Before I left New Mexico, I played Wingspan and Azul at my sister’s house. I played Pokemon Go and my usual NYT word games: Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Spelling Bee.
Added to the Hoard
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Crooked Lane for A Death in Diamonds, and to Dragonblade Publishing for A Wraith at Midnight!
Purchased or Free (Kindle)
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
Kindle: A Measure of Menace; Tea and Empathy; Careful What You Witch For; Then There Were Five; Dead Beside the Thames; The Mousetrap and Other Plays; Kiki’s Delivery Service; Paper & Blood
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You really jumped right into things the day after getting home. I would have given myself a day off to unpack. It will be nice to be home and get things sorted after all the removations.
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mae
How fun to have the Miyazaki films to watch for the first time!
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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
I’d love to watch My Neighbor Totoro one of these days. I’ve just learned about the films made by Miyazaki.
I keep meaning to check out Wingspan. A library near me has lots of great board games to borrow.
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Carla
It looks like you’ve read some great historical romances in your reads.
I’ve seen Kiki’s Delivery Service before and it looks like a fun read.
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Katherine
Yay for getting home safe and sound. I hope all the doctors’ appointments go smoothly. I really need to keep reading the Balogh series. I read the first one earlier this year and really loved it. I hope you’re having a wonderful week!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
We love My Neighbor Totoro! I’m looking forward to watching another Studio Ghibli favorite again soon: Mr. Wyrm and I always watch Spirited Away along with the first good rain of the year (well, the first good rain when we’re home and not busy). Soon, I hope!
And welcome home! I completely understand the mixed feelings on coming home after a long time away like that.
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Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews
All of your books look so good. I hope you enjoy them. Have a great week!
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