Sunday Post – 2/18/2024

February 18, 2024 Sunday Post 8

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 didn’t watch much of the Super Bowl last Sunday. I have really lost my taste for football, although I was a fan in my 20s and early 30s. My favorite team went downhill after Joe Gibbs retired, and Dan Snyder’s ownership was… ugh.* More importantly, as the long-term damage done by multiple concussions has become clearer, I feel increasingly uncomfortable about football as a whole. (Also rugby and boxing, but I was never a fan of those.) I’m not judging anyone else for enjoying football, but I’m pretty much done with it. I did check out some of the better commercials on YouTube, though. The Groundhog Day commercial was great!

I cooked pancakes and sausage for supper on Tuesday—a traditional supper for Shrove Tuesday (aka Mardi Gras.) Valentine’s Day fell on Ash Wednesday this year, which is a really ironic juxtaposition—especially for people who are giving up chocolate or sweets for Lent this year! We celebrated Valendtine’s Day quietly with cards and chocolates. It turned out we had each bought the same box of chocolates from the local cake-and-candy shop, which made us laugh. After 30+ years of marriage, we know (and love) each other very well. Mr. Bookwyrm also brought me roses on Monday; I have been enjoying them all week.

*About the only good thing Snyder did was finally give in to pressure and change the team’s name from a racial slur to the Commanders. Frankly, he should have done it a lot earlier… though he could have picked a better replacement name.

Writing accountability: My writing goal is 250 words every day (fiction or other creative writing; book reviews don’t count.) In the past week: I didn’t get any fiction writing in this week, but I spent some time doing research.

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Looking Ahead

What I’ve Been Reading/Watching

Reading: I finished up Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (ARC), which I loved. Then I reread The Wards of the Roses by Celia Lake. My playreading group read Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. (Review scheduled. And by the way, this totally counts as reading as far as I’m concerned, especially since I have to follow along as others read their parts so I don’t miss my cues.) I reread a novella by Stephanie Laurens, Rose in Bloom. Then I plowed through an ARC of Nora Roberts’s forthcoming novel, Mind Games, which was terrific.

Listening to: I finished season 8 of the Writing Excuses podcast and went on to season 9. I also continued listening to Roma Agrawal’s Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed The World (in a Big Way).

Playing: NYT word games (Wordle, Connections, and the Spelling Bee); and Pokémon Go.

Watching: We watched three out of four episodes of Brokenwood Season 6. We skipped the other episode because we had seen it at my Mom’s over Christmas, out of order.

Added to the Hoard

For Review or Consideration

Many thanks to Berkley for The Love Remedy!

Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)

Kindle: The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes; A Perfect Bride; A Perfect Groom; A Perfect Hero; Rose in Bloom (novella); Birthright; Wyngraf: Cozy Fantasy Romance Special, 2024 (a digital magazine); A Study in Drowning.

Finding Samantha James’s Sterling trilogy on sale means I can now let go of three more paperbacks! (Have you noticed how the print in books seems to shrink after a while? Sort of like my clothes… At any rate, it’s getting harder to read a lot of mass-market paperbacks. So I’m replacing a lot of them with Kindlebooks as the books go on sale.)

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

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8 Responses to “Sunday Post – 2/18/2024”

  1. sjhigbee

    I love that you and Mr Bookwyrm have the same idea regarding Valentine’s gifts:)). I also thoroughly enjoyed Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. Have a great week.

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I’m sorry we didn’t get much snow this winter, but I am beginning to look forward to warmer weather and more hours of daylight. I’m ready for spring.

  6. Katherine

    I can’t wait to read the Nora Roberts book! I’m glad to see you enjoyed it. It sounds like a very nice Valentine’s Day. We both kind of forgot about it and we haven’t celebrated our anniversary yet (it’s at the end of January and we were in Memphis for Will’s tests) so I think we are going to go out to a really nice dinner sometime in the next couple of weeks to make up for it. I hope you’re having a great week!
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