Sunday Post – 11/24/2024

November 24, 2024 Sunday Post 1

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 baked banana bread and took a loaf with me when I visited a dear friend, my former choir director and mentor. It’s the first time I have seen her in over a year. We chatted for four hours! It was great to see her, and I think she has really been missing seeing her friends, too. I will try to get over to see her more often.

Other than that, it’s been a quiet week. I spent far too much time on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky this week. I’m still glad I signed up for Bluesky, but I’m going to need to be much more careful and intentional about the amount of time I spend on social media. I could be doing much more interesting things with my time. . . like reading. Or writing. Or crafting. Or Christmas shopping, which I really need to get started on given that Christmas is in a month!

I hope all my US readers have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We’ll be celebrating quietly, as usual, but with a full Thanksgiving dinner nonetheless.

5 Good Things: Some good things from this week.

  1. Visiting a dear friend was a highlight of the week.
  2. The banana bread was delicious.
  3. I read the first two books in a new trilogy by one of my favorite authors.
  4. Mr. Bookwyrm and I went for a walk, my first since the ablation, and it was a beautiful day.
  5. I bought some gorgeous Malabrigo yarn in a grab-bag sale online, and whoever picked it out actually made sure I got coordinating skeins.

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Looking Ahead

  • Top 10 Tuesday – Thankful/Thanksgiving freebie
  • reviews TBD
  • Sunday Post – 12/01/2024

What I’ve Been Reading/Watching (since 7/14/2024)

Reading: I finished Enchanted Net by Celia Lake, and then read the second book in the trilogy, Silent Circuit. Book #3 comes out on Dec. 15, so I won’t have to wait too long to finish the trilogy. After that, I read another story or two from Buried Deep and Other Stories (Naomi Novik; ARC) before diving into Smoke and Mirrors, the fourth Greer Hogan mystery by M. E. Hilliard (overdue ARC.) When I finished that one, I started This Will Be Fun (E. B. Asher; overdue ARC.) I also started Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief by Dorothy Gilman; I thought I had read it before, but since absolutely nothing in it seems remotely familiar, I must have missed that one somehow.

The two Celia Lake books and the Hilliard mystery count toward the COYER Catch-up Readathon, which ends tonight; the readathon was for books published in 2024.

Listening to: Arrow’s Flight by Mercedes Lackey, read by Christa Lewis. I also listened to an episode of the Fated Mates podcast on comfort reads, which I was disappointed in.

Watching: We started a rewatch of Star Trek: Next Generation. And we watched a few episodes of Late Night with Stephen Colbert.

Playing: The usual games: Pokemon Go and several NYT word games (Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Spelling Bee) as well as Sudoku.

Added to the Hoard

(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)

For Review or Consideration

Many thanks to Bramble (Tor) for an e-ARC of Swordheart! Bramble is rereleasing Swordheart (originally self-published by T. Kingfisher) in a beautiful hardcover edition.

Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)

Kindle: Death Wears a Mask; Forged by Magic; The Listener

Stay kind and hopeful… and may your books bring you joy this week!

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