A Long Sunday Drive – Sunday Post,12/08/2024

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 spent the week indexing, planning and shopping for Christmas, and packing for our trip. We left yesterday morning for New Mexico and drove all and well into the evening before stopping for the night. By now we’re somewhere on I-40, headed west. Today’s drive will be around 10 hours, not including stops; tomorrow’s drive will be slightly shorter. We’ll spend the night at Robin’s and then all three of us will head to Utah to visit my dad and stepmom.

Between working on the index and visiting with family, I’ll be pretty busy in the coming week, so I probably won’t be around the blogosphere very much. I hope you all have a great week!

5 Good Things: Some good things from this week.

1. I’ve got almost half my Christmas shopping done.
2. I finished the first sock of the pair I’m knitting.
3. The cardiologist is pleased with how I’m doing, post-ablation.
4. I finally got back to studying Spanish on Duolingo.
5. We’re on our way to see Robin and both sets of my parents!

Recent Posts

• Sunday Post – 12/01/2024
• Self-Care and Community Care – Musings
• WIP Wednesday – 12/03/2024 – a look at what I’m making
• News & Notes – 12/07/2024 – a link roundup
• Sunday Post – 12/08/2024 – this post

Looking Ahead

• reviews TBD, time permitting
• Sunday Post – 12/15/2024

What I’ve Been Reading/Watching (since 7/14/2024)

Reading: I reread Soft Focus by Jayne Ann Krentz. I read a little more of This Will Be Fun by E. B. Asher. But mostly I worked on Christmas shopping and packing, and listened to my audiobooks.

Listening to: I finished Arrow’s Flight by Mercedes Lackey, read by Christa Lewis. Then I started Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher, read by Jilly Bond. It’s an old favorite; I reread it at least every other holiday season. But I’ve never listened to the audiobook before. Bond’s narration is engaging, for the most part. She is particularly good at conveying a smile, warmth, even affectionate humor, and her accents are fairly accurate (to my American ears.) However, she isn’t quite as good at different voices as my favorite narrators tend to be. Her children’s voices sound querulous, rather than young, and some of the older characters sound a bit older than they ought. Still, I’m enjoying it.

Watching: several episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation, Season 1. And we watched a few episodes of Late Night with Stephen Colbert as well.

Playing: The usual games: Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku. I also played a few games of Wingspan on Steam.

Added to the Hoard

(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)

For Review or Consideration

Many thanks to Tor for Wooing the Witch Queen!

Purchased or Free (Kindle, print, or audio)

Print: The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

Kindle: Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman; A Death By Any Other Name; The December Market; Sorcery and Small Magics; A Dragon of a Different Color (that one was free!)

Audiobooks: A Dragon of a Different Color

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

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