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 cooked a pork loin on Sunday, which fed us for half the week. I made a cake to celebrate Mr. Bookwyrm’s birthday. And I saw the OT again for my wrist. I have some exercises to do to try to release the nerves.
I am also spinning again, though not as much as I would like. Tour de Fleece started yesterday, so I will be spinning every day, at least 15 minutes, but on several different projects depending on where I am. My primary wheel doesn’t travel very well, so I have one project at home, another on my travel wheel, and a third that I’m trying to spin on a drop spindle.
Decluttering: I continued slowly moving books downstairs, either to shelves (for my more precious books) or in boxes.
Blogging: I finally got a few more reviews written.
Writing accountability: My minimum goal is an achievable 250 words every day (fiction or other creative writing; book reviews for the blog don’t count.) I wrote 5 days this week. Word counts for the week: 3402 words of fiction* (my goal was 1,750 total for the week.) I am using 4theWords to gamify my writing sprints.
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 6/23/2024
- My Most Anticipated New Books for June–December 2024 – Top 10 Tuesday
- The Love Remedy, by Elizabeth Everett – review
- Sunday Post – 6/30/2024 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Monthly Wrap-Up – June 2024
- Hideaway, by Nora Roberts – review
- Books with My Favorite Color on the Cover – Top 10 Tuesday, very tentative
- other reviews TBD
- Sunday Post – 7/07/2024
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading and Listening: I reread Hideaway by Nora Roberts, and then read Wait Until Midnightt by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz.) Somehow, it’s the first time I have read this one. Just as I was finishing it, my library hold for Montana Sky (Nora Roberts) came in, so I reread that. And when my preorder of When a Dragon Comes Courting came in on Friday, I gulped it down in a single bite… er, I read it in one sitting. It’s lovely, but short even for a novella.
Listening to: I continued re-listening to The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (read by Robert Ian MacKenzie.) In podcasts, I listened to a few Writing Excuses episodes from Season 10, as well as an episode each of Smart Podcast Trashy Books and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
Watching: The Natural (Robert Redford movie), and episodes 4 and 5 of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 10, which means we only have one episode left in the season.
Playing: Some of the NYT word games, mostly Wordle, Connections, Strands, and my favorite, the Spelling Bee. I also played Pokémon Go occasionally.
Added to the Hoard
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Crooked Lane for Schooled in Murder and Minotaur for The Secret of the Three Fates!
Library Haul
Library: Montana Sky
Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
Kindle: Troubled Waters; The Uncommon Reader; The Book of Dragons; When a Dragon Comes Courting
Audiobooks: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews
So many good books and authors on your list. I haven’t read Amanda Quick in such a long time. I really have to grab one of hers off my TBR and read it. She’s always so good.
I hope you have a great week!
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Anne - Books of My Heart
That sounds like a good week to me. You are really keeping up well with your writing. Have a happy and safe 4th of July!
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Rachel @Waves of Fiction
Hope the OT helps with your wrist. I love Nora Roberts. I need to look into more of her back list. Didn’t they make Montana Sky into a movie? Good luck in your spinning, and have a lovely week!
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Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
When a Dragon Comes Courting sounds really cute, but I hadn’t realized it was a novella. Actually, that makes me even more interested in it. I’ll have to pick up a copy.
I’ve been playing Pokemon Go off & on lately, too. It’s something I can do with my niece and nephew when we visit (or when we recently went on vacation together). If you want another friend on there, message me and I’ll send you my friend code. 🙂
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I really liked it, but it’s a very short novella. More of a novelette, tbh. And I’d love to be friends on Pokemon Go. I’ll message you.