Sunday Bookends: Celebratory dinner, disturbing Rita Hayworth documentary, and the same books

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.

This weekend seemed hectic but it really wasn’t that bad.

I helped my parents a couple of days and then on Friday we had a family outing where Little  Miss and I got our hair cut and we had lunch out to celebrate my husband’s promotion at work.

On Saturday the kids and The Husband went to a mall an hour away and I stayed home and watched movies and caught  up on some shows I’ve been watching. It was nice to have a relaxing day.

This week Little Miss and I meet with our homeschool evaluator to close out our homeschool year. We are taking a month off and will start up with some school again in July to allow us some time off throughout the school year. She will continue her Outschool art classes throughout the summer, at her request.

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

I didn’t finish anything last week.

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’m still reading The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis and Stolen Past by Tara Randle.

I’m enjoying them both, but didn’t seem able to focus on reading as much this week. My mind was busy I guess.

I also started The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie for the June Reading Christie 2026 Challenge.

And then, because I know I will probably finish The Silver Chair this week, I also started All The Broken Places by John Boyne. I don’t know anything about it so I’ll see how it goes.

What The Family is Reading

Little Miss and I are continuing Heidi.

New arrivals to my bookshelf

The Husband picked up a Terry Pratchett book for me at Barnes and Noble:

What I/We’ve Been Watching

I’ve been watching The Other Bennet Sister and yesterday I also finished the first season of Ludwig. I watched a Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone that was a bit convoluted and treated Dr. Watson like a total moron.

I watched a documentary on Rita Hayworth that was disturbing, to say the least. That poor woman overcame a lot to become an actress but even then she was abused (by her own father), taken advantage of, and rebuilt (physically and otherwise) to become who we watched in the movies.

It was hard to watch You’ll Never Get Rich with her and Fred Astaire after seeing the documentary since one of the plot lines of the movie is a predatory married man trying to buy her gifts and hit on her and later involves her being tricked to marry Fred, who is a heck of a lot older than her.

What I’ve Been Writing

Last week on the blog I shared:

What I/We’ve Been Listening To

Little Miss and I are listening to Little House in the Big Woods before bed.

Photos From Last Week

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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