It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to.
This week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn at The Book Date.
What I/we’ve been Reading
Currently Reading:
The Cat Who Went Into The Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun
Hell is Empty by Craig Johnson
Do The New You by Steven Furtick
Recently Finished:
Sisterchicks Do the Hula by Robin Jones Gunn
This book wasn’t horrible but there wasn’t really an actual plot and that annoyed me. I kept waiting for something to happen – like a mystery or a trial they had to overcome or .. well, anything really. Like a plot maybe. Once I decided and accepted that was never going to happen it was much easier to skim ahead and just see what happened at the end and move on to the next book.
Update: I went back and read some of the parts I had skimmed and decided the book is actually very sweet. A bit slow but sweet and relaxing. I think I’m going to try the first book in the series, which I heard was better, and other books in the series as well. I was excited to see that they are now on Kindle Unlimited and it looks like the author updated some terms, etc. for now.
Up Next or Soon:
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Bats Fly At Dusk by Erle Stanley Gardner
This week Little Miss and I finished The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz. I hope to finish The Borrowers with her this week but she’s been reading Fortunatly the Milk by Neil Gaiman to me.
What We watched/are Watching
This past week I watched Miss Austen Regrets and wrote about it on the blog. I really enjoyed it. The rest of the week I watched Lark Rise to Candleford and Miss Scarlet and the Duke.
What I’m Writing
I’m plugging away on Cassie and hope to have it finished at the end of this month so I can start the third book in the Gladwynn Grant series.
Last week on the blog I shared:
- Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot February 1
- Jane Austen January: Miss Austen Regrets
- Faithfully Thinking: When it feels unnatural to not worry and ruminate but you stop doing it anyhow
What I’m Listening To
This week I listened to this song on repeat:
And loved this version of it:
Now it’s your turn! What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to or writing? Let me know in the comments or leave a blog post link if you also write a weekly update like this.
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I don’t mind reading stories where nothing really happens, but I don’t usually seek them out, and they have to be done really well. I’m glad you ended up liking it a little more in retrospect. I hope you’ll enjoy the first one more if you read it!
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I actually do read books where nothing really happens but this was truly nothing. But it was still sweet. I think I had just read too many mysteries before it and was expecting something similar.
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Sounds like you had a productive week last week. 😀 Those are always the best. I hope you have a great week this week too! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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You’re welcome! I hope you have a good week too.
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Your header is absolutely stunning!
I hope you are enjoying Bury Your Dead. I am a huge fan of Louise Penny and this series.
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I hope to start it soon. I’ve heard a lot of good things about her.
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And thank you on the header. It’s a photo my husband took of a swamp area during a heavy snow last year.
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So, I went back to some of my old comfort reading this week: a Grace Livingston Hill book. They are definitely old-fashioned, from a different era. And yet, my heart is put at ease when I read her themes of “darkness is overcome by light.” I hope you have a good week of writing and reading!
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I haven’t read her in forever. Her books are a bit of those “noting happens” books that I enjoy!
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Love your winter header! I would like to watch Lark Rise to Candleford at some point. Have a great week!
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Thank you! It was a photo my husband took of a swamp area near our house after a winter storm last year.
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I’ve gone back to reading some books on my Kindle app because I unfortunately checked out two books from the library that I realized I’d already read after I got them home and the third library book was trash, so I closed it tight after the first few pages. I’m so tired of vulgar, foul language and descriptions of sex scenes. Enough already! I told my hubby there’s enough garbage in the world that I can’t help but see so I certainly don’t need to put that kind of writing in my mind. Blech!
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It is very frustrating to find that stuff in books. I read mostly clean/Christian fiction so I don’t find that but I’ve been branching out lately and find myself putting a book down if its the really heavy language and especially if it describes sex. I’m done. I have pushed through some mysteries despite the language but sometimes I just finally give up and close the book, or remove it from the Kindle. I can recommend some cleaner authors for you but I’m sure you’re more widely read than me. Let me know what kind of books you read – romance or mystery or …whatever. I’ll see if you’ve read them before. 🙂
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I stick to clean/Christian fiction ebooks for sure. But I never know exactly what I’m going to find when I open a book from the library unless it has an “inspirational fiction” label on the spine. So when I ‘branch out,’ and check out a book that sounds interesting from the inside jacket, sometimes I’m surprised it’s good and sometimes…..yuck. Close the book and return it. I do read mysteries, a little romance (but sometimes I get tired of those), and I also like historical fiction. I practically devoured Alison Weir’s series on the wives of Henry VIII.
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke is the next show I plan to binge with my daughter, I’m putting off watching season 4 til then
Wishing you a lovely reading week
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i been reading tainted cup finished it last week. Really enjoyed her majesty royal coven and eagerly starting book two. I also doing the gilded one series as i have all 3 on netgalley but i doing them via audiobook. have a great week.
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I’m one of the few readers, I think, who doesn’t really care if a book has a plot—as long as the characters are intriguing.
Good luck with Cassie! I’m very impressed with someone who can set out to finish a book by a certain date and then do so.
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I’ve read a few of The Cat Who books via audio. I really need to read more, but my audio reading has become as backlogged as my physical reading.
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I am reading the latest installment of The Hawthorne family books. They are full of plots…too many and too many secrets and too many trying to figure out if that was in a prior book or is it going to come out later in this book. Mike watched Aquaman 1 & 2 while I crocheted and pretended to watch. I don’t like those goofy movies, but he watches lots of the ones I choose.
I really need to get busy and finish writing my mini retreat. It’s about 750 words too short. I just need to buckle down and do it…especially it’s about a month away…eeek!
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