It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and about to be reading over the week. It's a great post to organize yourself. It's an opportunity to visit, comment, and add to that ever-growing TBR pile! So welcome, everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and was then taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.
Happy Monday! Hope you had a great week. We arrived home from vacation on Saturday afternoon, which was my birthday. I bought myself a new Kindle Fire during Prime Days and am trading in my Paperwhite. I never really liked it. The family also treated me to the gifts below:
The candle reads, "Mom's Last Nerve oh look... it's on fire." The book is about a murder that took place in the Outer Banks. Not sure if those are related: me, my last nerve, and murder. LOL! The cat card in the back is hilarious. It's a cat setting a cake on fire. I guess my husband thinks I'm old (keeping in mind that he's two months older than me).
On Sunday, I made it out to the garden to see what I had killed... I mean grown. I was pleasantly surprised.
Lettuce and broccoli. The broccoli was delicious. We had it for lunch.
Snipped a bunch of herbs: basil, oregano, rosemary, parsley, and thyme.
I've always had success with potatoes. Besides beans, these are the easiest for me to grow. I also snipped the garlic scapes. Will probably add them to a stir fry this week.
The basil and rosemary made it into our chicken last night.
I've been on a bit of a spending spree lately. Nothing that I didn't need or won't use--work clothes, a tea nest and spoonula for the kitchen, shipping for a free candle that Yankee Candle gives for my birthday, and books. Most of the books didn't cost me money because I had Amazon credits. Of course, one could argue, how could someone with hundreds of books in her TBR pile need more books?
In my reading world, I realized there was a book I listened to on Audible that I never shared. It's really a great book--one of the most helpful on time management, but one I want to listen to again before reviewing it. At some points, I was distracted or on the phone while driving. Dang multi-tasking.
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
My review of 10 Nesting Swallows by Tammar Stein appears at The Children's and Teens' Book Connection. Read it here.
My review of The Three Faces of Nellie: The Real Story Behind Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Nellie Oleson" by Robynne Elizabeth Miller is posted at Laura's Little Houses. You can read it here.
Hope to have reviews of Stop That Witch! and My Dad Thinks He's a Scream posted soon.
I've been reading Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley on my Kindle.
Started The Bible Simplified by Zach Windahl on NetGalley.
I also started Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard Levine, which I will be reviewing in September.
Look for my First Chapter Reviews of these books coming July through September!
Whispers by J. Herman Kleiger
Gone to the Ground by Morgan Hatch
What Lies We Keep by Janet Roberts
Whatever It Takes by Alan Benham
Need to read Old Flames, New Beginnings by Lea Schizas soon.
Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books they added to their shelves the previous week. This weekly meme is now hosted by Vicki at I'd Rather Be At The Beach.
Here are the new books I added to my ever-growing TBR pile:
The Day I Met Big Foot and Made a New Friend by D. L. Miller
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
by Noah Andre Trudeau
by John Railey
Upcoming Events
- Whispers by J. Herman Kleiger - Jul 18 (First Chapter Review)
- Shooting Stars Above by Patricia Leavy, PhD - Jul 24 (Author Interview)
- Arabesque by M G da Mota - Jul 31 (Book Spotlight)
- Gone to the Ground by Morgan Hatch - Aug 7 (First Chapter Review)
- Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard Levine - Aug 12 (Author Interview)
- What Lies We Keep by Janet Roberts - Aug 20 (First Chapter Review)
- Whatever it Takes by Alan Brenham - Sep 2 (First Chapter Review)
- Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard Levine - Sep 15 (Review)
New Christmas... in the news talks about a new Hallmark movie in the works, Pittsburgh is in the process of finding its official tree, and QVC launching a star-studded 'Christmas in July' event this month. Check out more details here. Tomorrow, I will be posting "Three Things to Do in July to Prepare for Christmas."
The Children's and Teens' Book Connection has my review of Ten Nesting Swallows (link above).
Laura's Little Houses has a review of The Three Faces of Nellie, which I provided a link for above.
That's it for this week. Wow! That was a lot. Looking forward to checking out your blogs today.
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