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: We had a lovely visit with my cousin and her husband last Sunday; they live several hours away. Sunday evening, after we got home, we had a family meeting via Zoom with my husband’s side of the family, to decide where to hold our first family vacation/reunion in five years. Tuesday was the monthly fiber guild social night on Zoom. It was fun, even if I couldn’t craft. Wednesday, I had a guild board meeting. On Thursday, the arborist came to assess which trees we need to take down. (My favorite tulip poplar can stay, thank goodness.)
Yesterday, we finalized the agreement on our flooring. We won’t have it installed until June, because we need to put away everything, and I do mean everything, in the rooms we are having done. (Which is most of the house.) I haven’t been able to work much on that because of my wrist, so it’s going to take quite a while to get the house ready for the install.
On the blog: I’ve been writing (Yay! See below), so I haven’t been blogging very much. I did write most of a review for later.
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 wrote EVERY DAY this week, all on the first draft of a fanfic I’m working on. Word count for the week: 5053 words (the goal was 1750.) I am using 4theWords to gamify my writing sprints, and it definitely helps. On Tuesday night, I surpassed my Camp NaNoWriMo goal of 7500 words in April. So far I have written 10,450 words this month. Woohoo!
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 4/14/2024
- News & Notes – 4/20/2024
- Sunday Post – 4/21/2024 – this post
Looking Ahead
- reviews TBD
- Sunday Post – 4/28/2024
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I finished The Love Remedy by Elizabeth Everett (ARC), which was very good. I read Madeline Miller’s short story Galatea, which is an interesting take on the Pygmalion and Galatea myth. Then I started The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton (also an ARC.) As I have gotten deeper into writing this week, I’m finding it harder to focus on reading, but The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love is truly delightful, with quirky humor and wonderful turns of phrase. I also started NaNoWriMo Inspirations by Dave Farland, figuring it was appropriate for Camp NaNoWriMo, too. And I’m rereading Exile’s Honor by Mercedes Lackey as my bedtime book, because I know it so well, I can stop whenever I get sleepy.
Listening to: The Writing Excuses podcast (season 9), and The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. Except I haven’t listened to much of either one.
Watching: Nothing, really. We have both been pretty busy.
Playing: Some of the NYT word games, mostly Wordle, Connections, and the Spelling Bee, plus a little Pokémon Go on Saturday.
Added to the Hoard
Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)
Kindle: A Will and a Way; World building: From Small Towns to Entire Universes; Mrs. McGinty’s Dead; Galatea; Murder at Spindle Manor; Murder on the Lamplight Express; Small Miracles; An Earl Like You; The Lantern’s Dance (also purchased the Audible audiobook); The Red Heart of Jade
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
sjhigbee
How lovely to have a get-together with family members – with the prospect of a family holiday:)). And getting flooring replaced is always a mighty project that takes a lot of planing. I’m extremely impressed at your weekly wordcount – that’s impressive, the more so as you have a poorly hand. I hope the coming week is a good one, Lark.
Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer
Nice haul. Yay for the reunions, flooring and favorite tree being marked safe!
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Anne - Books of My Heart
Well you are having lovely gatherings and writing! As well as getting some house maintenance / update decided. That’s a good week. I hope your wrist is continuing to heal.
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aimee @ aimee can read
Sounds like you had a fantastic week with family! Also, are you having a home renovation done? We are too, and I’m so excited about it bc I’m finally going to have new shelves after a decade of the Ikea ones I currently have. 😀 Might take a year or two, but I’m looking forward to it!
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Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Ooh, I spot an Agatha Christie — always fun! Hope you enjoy the new books. 😀
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Thanks! Me too. But I do seem to buy them faster than I read them. 🙄
Katherine
I think the main thing that is scaring me from redoing the floors and painting the walls for the main rooms of the house is because I really really don’t want to have to put everything up! I hope you’re having a great week!
Lark_Bookwyrm
It’s really daunting. We’ve been here for decades, and it’s amazing how much stuff you can build up in that time.