Sunday Bookends: More Agatha Christie and still sick cat

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Sunday Bookends, Sunday Salon

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.

Happy Memorial Day weekend to all the Americans visiting today! To the rest of ya’….happy weekend!

This past week was fairly uneventful other than our oldest cat, Pixel, continuing to battle the same virus all our other indoor/outdoor cats battled. She also wedged herself in a dirty crawlspace in our basement, which led to my claustrophobic son having to climb in and get her out.

The youngest cat did fairly well with the virus but the two older cats ended up at the vet.

This week The Husband took Pixel to the vet 45-minutes away and then we drove up to pick her back up later in the day. She received an antibiotic, a fever reducer, and anti-nausea meds and perked back up some that night.

 Thursday and Friday she wasn’t doing well, though, and yesterday she was somewhat better but still sleeping a ton and not eating or drinking much.

Here is Pixel before she got sick. She’s so much skinnier now.

I wrote about the cat and some other things on my Saturday Link Up, which is a new link up for bloggers to share their posts of any kind — weekly round-ups or just posts you’d like to get some eyes on. Old posts are always welcome.

I hope Pixel gets better soon so I can write about more than my sick cats….not that I have a ton else going on in my life.

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

I finished The Labors of Hercules this week. It is a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie featuring her detective Hercules Poirot.

I didn’t like the first couple of stories but pushed through and ended up enjoying some of the other stories, especially the final story, which I think should have been included in the collection first. I imagine a lot of people gave up on the collection because the first couple of stories really weren’t very good — well, to me anyhow.

The idea of the book was for Poirot to be working toward retirement and in order to make his last cases interesting, he decides to learn about his namesake, Hercules, and then mimic Hercules Twelve Labors.

There are 12 short stories to match up with the twelve labors. I will have a full review up at some point in the future.

In Progress

I am slow reading Stillmeadow Daybrook by Gladys Taber. Since each chapter is a month, I plan to read a chapter a month.

I am currently reading The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun. It is a very slow-burning mystery. I’m on chapter 9 and the mystery just happened, but that is how Lilian’s books are. I am also reading Summer by the Tides by Denise Hunter. This is a women’s fiction/romance and so far it is heavy on women’s fiction but not heavy topic wise

Up Soon

I’ll be reading ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham, and The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis soon.

What The Family is Reading

Little Miss and I are continuing Heidi.

The Husband is reading Chasing the Bear by Robert B. Parker.

New arrivals to my bookshelf

This week I added Garage Sale Secret by Elizabeth Ludwig to my bookshelf, thanks to my husband, who grabbed it at a local library/used bookshop.

What I/We’ve Been Watching

This week I watched the first episode of The Other Bennett Sister, a movie called My Sister Eileen, and part of the Bette Davis movie The Letter.

This morning I am watching old videos of Just A Few Acres Farm. Sadly, Pete ended his YouTube channel but at least left the old videos up. I felt bad that he shut off all commenting on the video where he announced he was leaving. It seemed rather harsh to not let his fans thank him and say goodbye but I guess he was just over it all already. Plus, mixed in with the good comments will always be some bad and I think he was getting sick of the bad.

What I’ve Been Writing

This week on the blog I shared:

What I/We’ve Been Listening To

I am only listening to Jack Benny at nights before bed. I want to listen to some more music this upcoming week.

Recent Blog Posts I Enjoyed

Mountain Adventures by The Farm Wife Reads

Secondary Characters Who Took Center Stage by Great and Noble Tasks

Some Housekeeping

Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.  This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night, but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link party.

Now It’s Your Turn

What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing?

This post is linked up with The Sunday Post at  Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer,  Deb at with Deb at Readerbuzz, and Book Date: It’s Monday! What are you reading hosted by Kathyrn at The Book Date and Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality.

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