The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books!
My Week
With Robin feeling better, this week has been better than the last. We celebrated New Year’s Eve over at my sister’s house, then drove back to my parents through 6+ inches of new snow. By morning, the storm had dropped a good 20 inches of snow; by the end of the day, the total was nearly 2 feet… on top of the foot of snow left by the two storms during Christmas week. We spent January 1 happily snowed in (and digging out). Because of the volume of snow to be cleared from parking lots and roads, Robin’s workplace was closed on Jan. 2 and 3, so we got two extra days together before Robin returned to work on Friday. We spent several afternoons and evenings at my sister’s house, playing games and just enjoying being together.
What we woke up to on New Year’s morning. (photo © 2018 K. Pekar)
Mr. Bookwyrm and I are headed home from New Mexico today, so I won’t be visiting or replying to comments until later in the week. I’ve got a lot of indexing work to make up this coming week, as well as unpacking and doing laundry after a whole month away, but I’ll try to make time to visit you all sometime this week.
The reading challenge I host has made the big time! (Well, sort of.) A Minnesota county library listed The Backlist Reader Challenge on their blog, right after Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge and the Popsugar reading challenge! They only listed six challenges total (besides their own), so I’m really flattered—and surprised.
Last Week on the Blog
- My 2018 Challenge Wrap-Up
- My Favorite Books of 2018 – Top Ten Tuesday
- East (Edith Pattou) – review
- Backlist Reader Challenge 2018 Wrap-Up Linky
- Sunday Post –1/06/2019 – this post
Upcoming on the Blog
- The Best of Us (Robyn Carr) – tour, review
- Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019 – tentative
- 2019 Resolutions – tentative
- WIP Wednesday – tentative
- News & Notes – 1/12/2019- tentative
- Sunday Post –1/13/2019 – tentative
What I’m Reading/Watching
Reading: I finished rereading The Black Gryphon (Mercedes Lackey) as well as the sequel, The White Gryphon. I also read The Best of Us (Robyn Carr; ARC), which I’ll be reviewing on Monday. I’m currently reading Cyanide with Christie (Katherine Bolger Hyde; ARC.) So I’ve hit all three of my main genres in the first week of the year: fantasy, romance, and mystery.
The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Ann Long and my Ngaio Marsh series reread are both on hiatus for now.
Listening to: nothing last week, but I’ll be listening to Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts in the coming week.
Watching: We saw Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse in the local movie theater. Other than that, I’ve only watched the first episode of The Good Place (season 1.)
Backlist Reader Challenge
Signups for The Backlist Reader Challenge 2019 are still open! If you want to tackle those older titles on your TBR pile, this is a great way to do it. Signups stay open well into 2019, but after this week, I’ll no longer post the link on Sundays. It will still be in the sidebar, though.
New Additions to the Hoard
Cover links take you to Goodreads.
Purchased for Kindle
Berls
Ugh all that snow! I’m glad it meant more time with your daughter – at least something good came from it (I am not a fan of snow, clearly lol). Good luck catching up on indexing and laundry! Have a great week!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I love snow! I especially love looking at snow from inside a cozy, warm house! 😀 I hope your first week back from break goes (or went?) well.
Melissa (My World...in words and pages)
Oh my! You got some snow! Hope you stay warm and safe. Happy new year!
Lark_Bookwyrm
We sure did! But it was great, because no one had to go anywhere. Happy New Year!
Jan @ Notes from a Readerholic
Happy New Year, Lark!
Wow! You got a lot of snow there. We haven’t had enough snow to even cover our grass! The snow track is taking a more southern route so far. I’m glad Robin is feeling better. It sounds like your visit was good even though Robin was sick Christmas week. I hope your trip home went well and that you’re getting all the things done you need to.
Have a great week and I hope you get to read a few books this week!
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Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
WOW, that’s a lot of snow! It sounds like a great start to the year, too. Best of luck on the laundry and unpacking, and congrats on the Backlist Reader Challenge being included on the short list!
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Anne
I’m happy to hear Robin was feeling better. Being snowed in is kind of cozy and it got you a couple extra days. Here’s to a great new year of reading!
Anne – Books of My Heart
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Lark
You got more snow than we did here in Salt Lake City. (Although it is snowing again as I write this.) Hope you have a good week! 🙂
Tressa @ Wishful Endings
Safe travels! That’s awesome about your challenge!! I haven’t signed up for any yet, so I might join yours. I’ve joined it before, but it’s been a while. I’m so terrible at keeping on top of those. Anyway, again travel safely and have a wonderful week!
Michelle @ Life Among the Pages
Wow! That is a lot of snow! We’ve had a few icy days, but no snow in my neck of the woods yet. I hope you enjoy your trip!
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Rita @ View From the Books
You had more snow down there than we have! But it’s pretty to have and the muffled sounds outside make it more peaceful– as long as there is a decent road crew available lol!
Congrats on the honor for hosting your challenge, I need to do more work on my page, but I’m in 🙂
I want to read the new Robyn Carr book soon. Hope you enjoyed it!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
We had a LOT of snow! More than they’ve gotten in that town in the last several winters. The skiers must have been ecstatic. (The local ski hill can’t make snow, so it only opens when they get enough.)