Sunday Post – 3/10/2024

March 10, 2024 Sunday Post 13

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

Apologies for posting this late; I had a JSON error that was preventing saving or posting, and it took me a long time to track down the cause.

In real life: I set up the follow-up appointment for my wrist, but they can’t see me until early this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Bookwyrm has done a great job picking up all the things I can’t do one-handed, including driving, cooking, and doing the dishes. As I suspected, I didn’t get much blogging done, because it’s been frustrating working on the computer with one good hand and little pecking from the other hand. While I can use the voice recognition software for emails and things, it’s more awkward for blogging and creative writing, where I do a lot of editing on the fly.

Decluttering update: We donated a box and a half of books to the Friends of the Library booksale, and dropped off some extra supplies at a local shelter for homeless families.

Writing accountability: no writing this week. I’m finding it difficult to “write” by dictating. The words just don’t flow smoothly.

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Looking Ahead

What I’ve Been Reading/Watching

Reading: I continued rereading Laurie R. King’s historical mystery series about Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes, finishing The Moor and going on to O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, and (currently) Locked Rooms. The Spellshop has been on temporary hiatus.

Listening to: The Writing Excuses podcast (season 9.) I started listening to a book on Celtic mythology, but realized that since I’m reading it for research, and I’m more of a visual learner, I would doo better with a print copy that I could mark up.

Playing: Not a lot. I managed to do a few of the NYT word games (Wordle, Connections, and the Spelling Bee), since I could do those one-handed

Watching: Brokenwood Season 7, and All Creatures Great and Small Season 4.

Added to the Hoard

Kindle: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic; Flash; Cybele’s Secret; Renewed for Murder; What Is Love?; White Hot; The Gates of Sleep (reviewed in 2012); The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone; The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street;

(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)

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

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13 Responses to “Sunday Post – 3/10/2024”

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      Me too! I’m getting better and better using my left hand, but I’m still looking forward to being able to use both hands freely, whenever that is.

  3. mae

    Good luck with healing your injury. I can imagine how frustrating it must be to lack the use of a. hand.
    best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      A bit, but I’m really grateful it’s not worse! I got the go-ahead today to switch to a rigid brace, which means I can take it off to shower or wash my hands, so that’s an improvement. 🙂

  4. sjhigbee

    Glad you have been able to switch to a rigid brace that you can take off – but it is a massive nuisance not to be able to use your dominant hand! I hope it continues to get better. I have just requested an arc of The Spell Shop, so I hope you are enjoying reading it. And I know what you mean about reading print books for research. All fiction these days is on my kindle or in audio format. But if I need to refer to a book regularly, I’ll get the printed version. Have a great week:).

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      It’s a nuisance, but it could’ve been so much worse. I’m thankful every day that it wasn’t! And every day, I get better at doing things with my left hand, or figure out a new workaround for something I couldn’t do a few days ago. It’s forcing me to be inventive and flexible, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

      As for The Spellshop, I am finding it delightful so far.

  5. Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits

    I hope you have a good doctor’s visit for your wrist! I completely understand the feeling. I recently saw my doctor for a shoulder issue I’m having — it doesn’t stop me from typing or knitting, but there are a lot of things I can’t do normally without pain. I’ve had to learn how to do a lot with my off-hand, too.
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      Oh, ouch! I sympathize; that makes doing things really tough. I had a frozen shoulder in 2018, and the other one started really hurting in February 2020. I got one session with my PT before lockdown. Fortunately, I still had printouts of the stretches and exercises they had me do for the first one, so I basically DIY’ed my own physical therapy for the second one. Because I started it before the shoulder actually froze up, I was able to keep most of my range of motion through the whole thing. Both shoulders are a lot better now, but I still do some of the stretches periodically to keep the range of motion open. I hope you’re able to get some help and relief for your shoulder.

  7. Lydia

    Writing with one hand is tough for sure! I’m getting caught up on posts this afternoon, so expect another comment from me.

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I have voice recognition software, but I find that the words flow more smoothly when I’m typing than when I’m trying to dictate.