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.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! I hope the weather is beautiful wherever you are.
The Past Week
In real life: We are celebrating Easter quietly, but with our traditional Easter dinner, which we will finish off with homemade carrot cake. I made half of the usual cake recipe because I do not need all that cake! I also tweaked the recipe to be healthier—less sugar, less oil (applesauce is a great substitute), and I subbed in a little almond flour and some whole wheat flour for most of the white flour. I forgot to add the raisins, though. (Darn it!) I’m interested to see how it turns out. It looks fine, though a little flatter than I hoped.
I received some very sad news this week. The Quaker day-and-boarding school that was a huge part of my childhood and teens abruptly announced that it is closing its doors forever at the end of this semester due to financial difficulties. As the child of a faculty member, I lived on the campus during most of my elementary-school years; later I attended the high school as a student. I am grieving, knowing that after this spring I will never again be able to walk those hills and woods and playing fields, nor see once more the house where I lived or any of the other beloved buildings. I don’t know what will happen to the campus—it will probably be sold to a developer—nor to all the records of the school. I hope they can make arrangements for the records, at least, to be archived somewhere accessible. I was able to contact the school, and they are willing to arrange an escorted visit for me and my cousins sometime in the next few weeks.
5 Good Things:
- We walked on 5 evenings this week, enjoying the birdsong and the cool breezes.
- We picked up our new glasses on Monday. I like my new frames; they are very light (in weight, not in color.) I hadn’t realized how big a change in prescription my right eye needed, but I think the new prescription is helping.
- My doctor is pleased with the changes I am making regarding exercise and eating healthier. (Fingers crossed I can maintain my progress this week!)
- I’m making progress on an index. It’s going slowly, but it’s progress.
- I had a great visit to the library. One of my library holds came in, and while I was picking it up, I had a lovely conversation with the man who was staffing the checkout desk. I found a 750-piece jigsaw puzzle in the Friends of the Library sale for only $2.00. And finally, I saw a bald eagle when I was leaving the library; it was soaring over the river, its white head and tail clearly visible in the brilliant sunshine.
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 4/13/2025
- The Martian Contingency, by Mary Robinette Kowal – review
- News & Notes – 4/19/2025
- Easter Sunday Post – 4/20/2025 – this post
Looking Ahead
- TTT – Top 10 Tuesday, tentative
- WIP Wednesday – a look at what I’m making (tentative)
- The Martian Contingency, by Mary Robinette Kowal – review
- Arrows of the Queen – audiobook review
- Top 10 Tuesday (freebie; topic TBD)
- Treasures from the Hoard: The Sleeping Beauty, by Mercedes Lackey
- Feuds (ed. by Mercedes Lackey) – review
- other reviews TBD
- News & Notes – 4/26/2025
- Sunday Post – 4/27/2025
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I continued rereading Closer to Home (Mercedes Lackey; reviewed in 2014) and the sequel, Closer to the Heart (reviewed 2015.) I also started Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King, for the COYER Mystery Readathon that ends on Apr. 27. And I switched my reading of The Goose Girl (Shannon Hale) from audio to Kindle. (Not that the audiobook isn’t good; it’s very good! But I’m finding that I’m more comfortable when listening if it is either familiar or nonfiction.)
Listening to: I finished listening to Spindle’s End and started The Blue Sword, both by Robin McKinley and both borrowed from Hoopla. And I’m still listening to Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Watching: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3. We’re almost done—only the season-ender cliffhanger episode to go (S3 E26.) We plan to watch that one back-to-back with S4 E1.
Playing: Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku (all from the NYT.) Wingspan.
Added to the Hoard
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
Library Haul
Library: The Library Game
Purchased (Kindle, print, or audio)
Kindle: High Deryni
Audiobooks: High Deryni
Anne - Books of My Heart
That’s fascinating about your school and sad it is closing. I’m glad you are having your walks and saw the eagle. We used to have one in our backyard in MN and I worried for our small dog. I’m sad we haven’t had swans here for a couple years.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I always loved your photos of the swans. I’m sorry they haven’t been there in the last few years.
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Oooh, Deryni books! I haven’t read those (or at least, not many? I forget) but my mom loved them when the series was new. I should ask her if she still has copies of the first few that I can borrow.
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Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library
Easter here was a really lovely day so we grilled and I made a cake and we had a nice quiet day. That’s too bad about the school and sad to hear about the changes. It is nice that you are able to take one last tour. I enjoyed that Gigi Pandian. The first book or two of the series were a little confusing but I think she’s really found her footing with this one. I hope you’re having a lovely week.
Space Station Mir
Hey–so funny story, but I’m also mourning the closing of (probably the same?) Friends school this week. I didn’t attend as a student, but I worked at a summer program there for several years and it’s where my husband and I met and fell in love. Such a beautiful campus–I led students on nature walks in the woods, we performed in the theatre and amphitheatre, played on the playgrounds and in the fields, picked blackberries and mulberries…it’s nice to reminisce with someone who knows!
Lark_Bookwyrm
Very possibly! If it’s the same school, you may already know that there is an ongoing effort by alumni, parents, and friends to save the school, which has succeeded in raising enough money that the Board committed to staying open through June 2028. It does sound like you were there a lot later than I was, though. It was only grades 9-12 when I was there, and I don’t remember any summer programs except possibly lacrosse and soccer. The Lower and Middle Schools were added later.