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 came home a week ago yesterday (Sat. March 8.) With the two-hour difference between Utah and Virginia, plus the hour we lost due to Daylight Savings, last Sunday morning came way too early, but I adjusted to the time change over the following days. I spent Sunday sleeping in, unwinding, unpacking, and starting to catch up on things (including the blog.) During the week, I set up my planner for March and April, made appointments with a lawyer and several contractors, and began the process of getting preapproval for a home loan. I also squeezed in some “me” time for blogging, etc., though there’s not going to be much of that in the coming weeks. We have so much to do to get the house ready to sell and our stuff packed up for storage.
Online: Thank goodness for the Akismet anti-spam plugin! Generative AI bots have gotten scarily good at writing comments on my blog posts, responding to what I wrote in ways that could easily fool me into thinking the commenter was human. The bots do get things wrong on occasion—at least four comments on my review of The Queens of Crime referred to a rivalry between Sayers and Christie, which I never mentioned and which, as far as I know, did not actually exist. But if Akismet hadn’t flagged the comments as spam, my only other clue would have been the websites associated with the commenter. And comments on other posts seemed plausibly human. To be honest, it’s kind of freaky.
5 Good Things:
- I’m thankful to be home, with parental crises handled for the moment.
- The crocuses were blooming when we got home. Alas, the sudden cold snap and snow midweek killed the blooms, but the daffodils seem set to bloom any day (and are blooming elsewhere in the neighborhood.)
- I got my planner set up for the month.
- I enjoyed yesterday’s monthly meeting of the fiber guild, and it was good to see some friends there.
- We celebrated Pi Day with an apple pie! (Not homemade, but good nonetheless.)
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 3/08/2026
- Nobody’s Baby, by Olivia Waite – review
- Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers – Top 10 Tuesday
- Michael Hague (1948–2026) – author/illustrator obituary
- Sunday Post – 3/15/2026 – this post
Looking Ahead
- Books with Green Covers (In honor of St. Patrick’s Day!) – Top 10 Tuesday
- other reviews TBD
- Sunday Post – 3/22/2026
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I continued reading Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter (Heather Fawcett; ARC), but I also reread Illusion of a Boar (Celia Lake), a historical fantasy romance set during WWII, and started Three Graces, a novella in the same series. My library hold for the ebook of The Thursday Murder Club finally came in on Wednesday after months of waiting, so I began reading that as well.
Listening to: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Virginia Postrel)
Watching: We watched all 12 hours of The American Revolution, a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. It’s extremely good.
Playing: Wingspan (phone app), Winter Burrow (Steam), and Pokémon Go, plus my usual NYT games: Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku. I know that sounds like a lot of time spent playing games, but it really hasn’t been, since I don’t play everything every day.
Added to the Hoard
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Del Rey for A Widow’s Charm, and to St. Martin’s for The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies!
Library Haul
Library: The Thursday Murder Club
Purchased or Free
Print: Book Outlet had a $5.99 sale on hardcovers a week or two ago, including some special/deluxe editions, so I ordered The Black Bird Oracle and A Theory of Dreaming as a treat/reward during a very tough couple of weeks. They arrived Monday.
Kindle: Murder by the Book; Silver & Blood; Second Chance Romance
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 this review 10 years ago on March 10, 2016.
Anne - Books of My Heart
It’s nice to be home and get to tasks. You are going to love The Thursday Murder Club. I think we are going to have another cold snap sadly.
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Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
I hope you find some time for yourself among the home move stuff! I know that moving can be A LOT and it can be hard to find balance.
Thanks for the reminder about spam comments! I have been managing to mostly avoid the bots lately, but I had a real person’s comments caught in the spam filter so I was able to rescue them before they got auto-deleted.
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Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer
I love Harkness and Osman. Enjoy! It sounds like you have been busy. I hope things work out. Have a great week.
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
The moving process is no doubt going to keep you busy. I hope it goes smoothly.
I have A Widows Charm too, I hope we both enjoy it.
Wishing you a happy reading week
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