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
The flooring people came to fix a crack in a threshold and adjust some of the LVP planks that had developed too much space between them. We found a bug in the basement that Mr. Bookwyrm thought might be a termite. Fortunately, it wasn’t, according to the Orkin inspector we called in. I kept working on the packing and book cataloging. And I finally gave in and converted my Fitbit app/account to the new Google Health app so they wouldn’t delete my account. I absolutely hate the new app; it’s not as easy to use as the old one, and it’s making significant errors.
Dad’s hospice nurse called late in the week to let me know he is doing worse. She feels that if he stays on this trajectory, he has a month. My stepmom says the nurse told her two or three months; either way, it’s faster than I expected. I’m grieving, and simultaneously panicking over everything I will have to do. (I’m his only child and essentially his executor.) I’m still trying to get his long-term care insurance company to cover the assistance he needs right now, and wondering how soon I should go out there. (There are some complicating factors on my end, or I would have already booked a flight for this week. Of course if he takes a sudden turn for the worse, I’ll leave immediately.)
3 Good Things:
- This week, I put 33 book jackets in archival plastic covers, and catalogued 13 books.
- Someone on a Discord server I’m a member of has offered to send me a fountain pen and some ink samples. The pen is one I haven’t used before, and I can’t wait to give it a try!
- Saturday, I went to my fiber guild meeting. I missed it last month, and it was good to be among my friends again. In the afternoon, I took a much-needed nap.
Recent Posts
- Sunday Post – 6/07/2026
- Illusion of a Boar, by Celia Lake (review)
- Sunday Post – 6/14/2026 – this post
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching
Reading: I alternated between Second Sight, the first Arcane Society novel by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) and Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter (Heather Fawcett; ARC.) I finished Second Sight and went back to Agnes Aubert, but when I got the news about my dad, I turned instead to one of my favorite comfort reads in recent years, Celia Lake’s Eclipse.
Listening to: I finished White Lies, the second in Krentz’s Arcane Society series, as well as book #3, Sizzle and Burn. I went on to book #5, Running Hot, skipping book #4 because I didn’t have access to it at the time. (They can be read somewhat out of order; I’ll go back and pick up book #4 this coming week.) I have read the series before, but I this is my first time on audio for any of them. I’m still finding that familiar books work better for me when I’m packing things for storage/moving—not to mention when I’m sad and anxious. It’s not that the books are soothing in and of themselves, but the stories are fun and diverting; the comfort comes from the familiarity.
Watching: a NOVA documentary on Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic archaeological site in Türkiye that is challenging long-held ideas about the development of civilization. We also finished up Season 12 of The Brokenwood Mysteries.
Playing: I gave myself the comfort of a few short sessions of Winter Burrow (on Steam). And I played a little Wingspan (phone app), plus a few of my NYT daily games: Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, and Sudoku (not all of them every day, just as I could fit them in.)
Added to the Hoard
(Click title for Goodreads page or my review.)
For Review or Consideration
Many thanks to Wednesday Books for My Unfamiliar and to Dragonblade Publishing for Unexpected Magic!
Library Haul
Library: Sizzle and Burn; Running Hot
Purchased or Free
Kindle: SALE: Books & Bewitchment; The Sorceress Transcendent; Yours, Wickedly: A Story in Thirteen Letters (short story); The Governess and the Rogue; Dragon Fires Everywhere
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 published these reviews 10 years ago this week, between June 8 and June 14, 2016.
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