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!
The Past Week
In real life: Mr. Bookwyrm was away on travel all week. I had grandiose plans about how much I was going to get done while he was gone, but I don’t know where the time went. I did some spinning and reading, prepared for and led a meeting for the fiber guild, and did all the usual daily and weekly stuff (omg, how does email eat up so much time?!)
I fell on Friday and injured my right hand/wrist, below my thumb. A set of x-rays did not show anything broken, but apparently it’s fairly common for a fracture of the scaphoid bone not to show up on an initial x-ray. They splinted it and told me to follow up with an orthopedic doctor in about a week. Fortunately, it doesn’t really hurt unless I try to use or stretch my thumb. But I am stuck using my left hand, plus voice recognition software on my computer and phone. (I dictated this paragraph, albeit with numerous corrections.) I am getting creative at doing things one-handed, but there are a lot of things I can’t do—try styling your hair using only your nondominant hand! Even with the voice recognition software, I’m not sure how much blogging I’m going to do over the next few weeks, let alone writing.
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 2/25/2024
- Sunday Post – 3/03/2024 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Monthly Wrap-Up: February 2024 – review, tentative
- Weird and Funny Things I Have Googled Thanks To a Book – Top 10 Tuesday, tentative
- reviews TBD
- Sunday Post – 3/10/2024
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I finished rereading Blood Magick, by Nora Roberts. I started rereading Laurie R. King’s historical mystery series about Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes, beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (one of my all-time favorite books), followed by A Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary, and (currently) The Moor. I also started reading an ARC of The Spellshop, by Sarah Beth Durst.
Listening to: The Writing Excuses podcast (season 9), and I finished up Roma Agrawal’s Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed The World (in a Big Way), which was quite good.
Playing: Nothing new, still the NYT word games (Wordle, Connections, and the Spelling Bee); and Pokémon Go.
Watching: Brokenwood Season 7.
Added to the Hoard
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Berkley for Speculations in Sin!
Library Haul
Library: The two Stephanie Laurens books I picked up last week turn out to have print that is just too small for me, so I returned them. (One of these days I will learn to look before checking out my holds.)
Our library lets you pause your holds, set to resume on a date of your choice. I goofed at the end of February and forgot to change the March 1 date on my paused holds to April or May, so a whole lot of my holds came in at once. In fact, there are too many to list them all, especially if I have to hunt down the title links. And anyway, a bunch of them are books I’m using for research for my writing rather than reading straight through. As for the rest, there is simply no way I can get through them all before they are due, so some will go back to the library and then back onto my “paused holds” list. However, I do hope to read Gallant ( V. E. Schwab) in time for the COYER book club in late March.
Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)
Kindle: The Lonely Hearts Book Club; A Novel Disguise
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
Anne - Books of My Heart
I’m so sorry to hear about your injury. It’s frustrating when you have things you want to do. I also plan to read Gallant but the audio version. It is surprisingly short.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I thought about getting the audio version from the library, but the waitlist was too long. After I checked out the book, I found the audiobook on sale at Chirp. But I think I’ll probably read it. As you say, it’s short, and won’t take me that long
sjhigbee
So sorry to hear about your hand injury – they tend to take a while to heal and in the meantime, it’s a blessed nuisance! And invariably involves the dominant hand… I hope the coming week is a better one.
Lark_Bookwyrm
Thank you. I’m really so grateful it wasn’t worse. I’m not in pain except the occasional twinge. While there are some things I can’t do without help, I have found workarounds for an awful lot of my daily tasks. So “nuisance” sums it up pretty well: it’s annoying, but temporary…and that will be true even if it needs to remain splinted or in a cast for a few more weeks, which I’m not expecting.
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Heal up soon! I know what you mean about trying to do things with your non-dominant hand. My right shoulder has been giving me issues lately (enough that I saw my doctor about it). It’s not as bad as having your hand in a splint, but it has made me really re-think some of the things I used to take for granted!
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It does make me very thankful for the mobility I have, and the technologies that make things easier. And I mean, it can be a bit frustrating in the moment, but I knew it’s temporary and relatively minor. It’s certainly nothing to what my stepdad went through last spring and summer, after he had a bad fall. He was amazingly patient and stayed in good spirits throughout his recovery. I’m trying to emulate him as best I can. 🙂
Snapdragon
Sorry about your hand. At least there technology like voice recognition software to make some things easier.
Have a great week.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
The VR software definitely helps!
Lydia
May you heal quickly!
Lark_Bookwyrm
Thank you! It’s improving, slowly.