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: Last Sunday, Mr. Bookwyrm and I went through more of the boxes in the basement. During the week, I had several medical appointments, including a baseline hearing test. Apparently I have mild hearing loss in the lowest frequencies, but everything else is fine. No wonder Mr. Bookwyrm can hear our rear neighbor’s subwoofer, and I can’t! But there’s no need for hearing aids at this point, so that’s good. I also took a watercolor of my grandmother’s to have it re-matted and framed. We watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on Friday, and man, do I miss Bob Costas! The commentary this year felt very amateur in comparison to Costas’ gravitas and depth of knowledge.
5 Good Things:
- Distilling Sunlight, the newest historical fantasy romance by Celia Lake, came out on Friday.
- I picked up my wedding ring and my grandmother’s ring, which were being repaired. It’s good to have them back!
- I don’t need hearing aids.
- Andrea Bocelli’s singing of “Nessun Dorma” in the Olympics Opening Ceremonies brought me to tears: a moment of sheer beauty.
- We are making progress on the house. Slowly, but progress nonetheless.
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 2/01/2026
- Sunday Post – 2/08/2026 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Love/Valentine’s Freebie – Top 10 Tuesday (tentative)
- reviews TBD
- Sunday Post – 2/15/2026
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I read Beast Business by Ilona Andrews, which contains the titutlar new Hidden Legacy novella about Augustine Montgomery and Diana Harrison, plus a collection of all the short stories featuring Arabella Baylor. After that, I read Nobody’s Baby (ARC), the second Dorothy Gentleman mystery novella by Olivia Waite. I finished it just in time to dive into Celia Lake’s new Albion novel, Distilling Sunlight, when it came out on Thursday.
Listening to: I finished The Queens of Crime (Marie Benedict) midweek, and started The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Virginia Postrel.)
Watching: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7 (a rewatch); Starfleet Academy, Season 1; and a little of the Olympics.
Playing: Wingspan (phone app), and my dailies: Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku (all from the NYT.)
Added to the Hoard
(Click title for Goodreads page.)
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Berkley for Enter the Nightmare!
Purchased or Free
Kindle: The Knight and the Moth; Kiki’s Delivery Service; Always Carry a Silver Cross; Tempests & Tea Leaves; Distilling Sunlight (was preordered); Romantasy Rebels
Audiobooks: The King’s Messenger
Ten Years Ago I Was Reading…
I saw this idea on Lisa Loves Literature, who got it from Musings of a Bookish Kitty (who I also follow.) I thought I would give it a try! I published these reviews 10 years ago between Feb. 2 and Feb. 8, 2016. NONE
- TOUR: Murder on Wheels, with guest post by Lynn Cahoon
- Treasures From the Hoard: Take a Thief (Mercedes Lackey)
- Switcheroo (Aaron Elkins)
Anne - Books of My Heart
You are really working hard on things. I though you would enjoy all your house updates after all that work last summer. My daughter and I are doing just the smallest bit of going through things.
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Anne - Books of My Heart
You are really working hard on things. I though you would enjoy all your house updates after all that work last summer. My daughter and I are doing just the smallest bit of going through things.
Melissa
I just found out that I have moderate to severe hearing loss in my right ear and mild loss in my left ear. I just got hearing aids – game changer!!
I’m finishing listening to Careless People – a memoir about working at Facebook, finished reading Motherland and Homsechooled and have started The Housemaid (I needed a light read after reading about Russian history!)
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Victoria
Glad your hearing is pretty good! Thanks for the reminder to read Beast Business!
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
I’m glad you got good news about your hearing.
I’m interested in picking up Beast Business and Nobody’s Baby
Wishing you a lovely reading week
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Katherine
My dad got hearing aids for some loss in the lower ranges and he’s loving them. He likes being able to listen to podcasts all the time and turn up or down his environment. We need to do hearing tests this year. With the studies linking hearing loss and dementia and seeing it firsthand with my grandmother I am not playing around with hearing loss. Ooh Aaron Elkins! I haven’t read anything by him in ages and I know there are a ton I never read. Have a great week!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
This sounds like is was a good week! I’m really looking forward to getting Nobody’s Baby when it comes out.
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