The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, 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
I’m sorry I was a no-show last Sunday. Things just got away from me, and then I got my booster shot on Sunday afternoon and was completely out of it on Monday. By Tuesday evening I was feeling mostly better, but by then I figured I might as well just roll everything into this Sunday’s post.
I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is this week! We’re keeping it very small and quiet this year, since we’re doing a lot of decluttering and reorganizing around the house. (And of course, last year’s Thanksgiving was also quiet, because of the pandemic.) But the fact that it’s this week reminds me that I had better finish up my Christmas shopping ASAP!
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 11/07/2021
- Joining the Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon
- Sunday Post – 11/21/2021 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Guild Boss, by Jayne Castle – review, tentative
- Sunday Post – 11/28/2021 – very tentative
What I’ve Read (in the last 2 weeks)
Reading: Over the last two weeks, I reread Guild Boss (Jayne Ann Krentz; ARC) so I could write a review, which is still in the draft stage. I also read A Spindle Splintered (Alix F. Harrow), which was really good, and Someone to Romance (Mary Balogh), which I thought I had read already, but I discovered I had only started it the last time. And I read Boundaries (ARC), an anthology of stories set in the world of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar. Most of my reading time was spent listening to audiobooks. I just started The Christmas Bookshop (Jenny Colgan; ARC) for the Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon.
Listening to: I finished A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley, which I read a few years ago on Kindle. Then I listened to Bellewether, which I had also read before. Listening to them in close succession, and right after listening to The Firebird, I caught several connections between the books that I hadn’t spotted before, which delighted me. Now I’m listening to A Study in Death, the fourth Lady Darby mystery by Anna Lee Huber.
Added to the Hoard (since Oct. 31)
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Crooked Lane for The Shadow of Memory!
Purchased (Kindle, print, or audio)
Kindle: It looks like a lot, but I didn’t post my new books on November 7, and I didn’t do a Sunday Post at all last week, so this is actually 3 whole weeks of acquisitions. Pictured above: The Art of Betrayal; Time of Fog and Fire; A Deadly Brew; A Scot to the Heart; Hogfather; Still Life; Chaos Reigning; The Anatomy of Stretching; Tiger Eye; The Faded Map; Men at Arms; A Christmas Party; Mrs. Polifax Pursued; Castle Shade; Unravel the Dusk; The Midnight Bargain; An Unexpected Peril; Bookish and the Beast; A Holiday by Gaslight; Rare Danger; Ghost Seer (Click title for Goodreads page.)
Audiobooks: As above, this is three weeks’ worth. All were either on sale (through Chirp), or Audible books that were discounted heavily because I bought or already owned the Kindle edition. Pictured above: A Desperate Fortune; The House at Pooh Corner; When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six; The Inimitable Jeeves; Castle Shade; Rare Danger; The Rose Garden (Click title for Goodreads page.)
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Hogfather is a good one for this time of year. I enjoyed the film version.
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
I want to read at least one seasonal book this Christmas and Colgan’s looks perfect.
Several of your new acquisitions appeal too.
Wishing you a great reading week, and happy thanksgiving
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ALICIA MARQUEZ
So many good books you’ve read in the last two weeks. I need to read more Susanna Kearsley.
Jinjer
and may you find books a haven in the coming weeks. — Yes!!! I certainly plan on THAT thanks to Thankfully Reading Weekend. lol
Our Thanksgiving will be just me and the 94-yo so definitely small and quiet. lol
Ohmygosh I had totally forgotten about Christmas SHOPPING. I’d better get on that.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits
I just started A Spindle Splintered, and I’m really enjoying it so far.
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Anne - Books of My Heart
Wow you have a great haul and seem to have been reading quite well. I can do audio while cleaning but my night time reading is deficient again. I am shocked it is already Thanksgiving this week. Thankfully, it will just be the two of us and quiet. Happy Thanksgiving!
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