Showing posts with label vacation photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation photos. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2021

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - July 12

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday.


 


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 and comment, and er... add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.

Welcome back to Monday. For our family, it is also welcome home! After driving straight through, we are home from the Outer Banks. What a great time we had. Tropical Storm Elsa brought us a bit of wind and rain, but it didn't interfere with our plans too much. 


View from our street


Enjoying frozen yogurt at The Surfin' Spoon


They actually have three books out now


The Elizabethan Gardens


The Elizabethan Gardens


Elizabeth II replica


Beach time


Beautiful sky on the way back from Raleigh


Rainbow after a shower on Wednesday.



Theo isn't much of a car fan


Brought these home for me from The French Door in Nags Head and Mermaid's Purse in Manteo.



While we were away, the 14th anniversary of The Book Connection happened. I really should keep track of these things. 

Thankfully, vacation means time to read. I caught up on the Rocky Bluff P.D. series and a young adult fantasy novel that was overdue for me to review. 


Read my review here


Read my review here


Read my review here




I want to finish this one up, because it has been on my Kindle for a while. 



I am also reading this one, though I might have to break off since I have new books to review for book tours.


These are virtual book tour ones--you know, the virtual book tours I said in January I was cutting back on--coming up in August and September. 











Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It now has a permanent home at the Mailbox Monday blog.

We stopped back in at Book Warehouse in Nags Head. Books at a bargain make me happy. 

I picked up these four historical mysteries by Kerry Greenwood for my mother-in-law. 





Then I grabbed this one for me.


I snagged this Kindle freebie yesterday.


That's it for me this week. Not sure how much reading I will get done since I start back to work early tomorrow. Hopefully, I can keep up a decent pace. 

What are you reading this week? Hope you'll share in the comments below.