Sunday Post – 1/19/2024

January 19, 2025 Lark_Bookwyrm Sunday Post 0

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 : In an unexpected twist, the house remodeling/redecoration we began last summer continues! Last Sunday, after thinking about it for a couple of weeks, we bought a bigger TV. Our 16-year-old 32″ TV still works, and we have been putting off getting a new one for several reasons (mostly ecological and logistical). But we realized that both of us are having a harder time seeing details and reading smaller text on the old TV. And if we wanted to get a larger one, we thought we should do it before the new tariffs kick in. So we bought one. The new TV is bigger, but not huge; we don’t want it to dominate the room.

But as always happens, when you change one thing, it leads to yet more changes. In order for the new TV to fit, we need to rearrange the furniture along that wall and get a new , wider TV stand. After some research and discussion, we decided to completely redecorate that entire wall of the living room. We’ll have to move some art to other parts of the house, but I’ll be getting more bookshelf space—not a lot, but the equivalent of one regular-size Billy bookshelf, more or less. The furniture pieces (ordered from IKEA) should arrive midweek. Once it’s all in place, I can start reshelving the books that live in that room.

5 Good Things:

I managed to find something I needed that had been buried in a box in the basement. (Small victories, but it was a needed one in that moment.) Now if I could just find that other critical thing that has gone missing. . .
I set up my monthly/daily planner for the next month or two. I’m going back to using a physical planner, since I find it helpful to actually write my to-do list and appointments down instead of just typing or dictating them.
I wrote and posted or scheduled several reviews.
I accomplished several daunting administrative tasks I have been putting off for a long time.
Our fiber guild met yesterday. I haven’t been in person since August (because I was out of town or had a conflict), so it was really good to see my fiber sisters!

Looking Ahead

The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection (or to your to-read list!) – Top 10 Tuesday
From the Vault: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal – audiobook review
other reviews TBD
Sunday Post – 1/19/2025

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

Book Cover: Bayou Moon, by Ilona Andrews

Book cover: A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #4), by S. J. Bennett (UK edition)

Audiobook cover: The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd

Reading: I finished On the Edge by Ilona Andrews for the read-along hosted by Books of My Heart, and started the second book in the series, Bayou Moon. I also started A Death in Diamonds by S.J. Bennett.

Listening to: I finished The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. (I reviewed it in 2019, but will be reposting the review this coming week.), After that, I started re-listening to The Fated Sky. I want to reread the first three books and associated short fiction before the new Lady Astronaut book comes out in the spring. I’m alternating these with The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd, one of the books Robin gave me a few years ago.

Watching: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1 (rewatch)

Playing: Pokemon Go; also Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku (all from the NYT.) And Wingspan on Steam or on my phone or iPad.