It's the weekend. Time for this week's Sunday/Monday Post. As usual, I will be linking up to:
Sunday Post
Sunday Salon
Stacking the Shelves
It's Monday, What Are You Reading?
Tuesday morning, I woke up thinking I was getting a cold. My throat was sore, but not too bad. The next stage never really came, however. I even took advantage of our mid-70's weather on Friday to run at lunch time. Then came Saturday morning. I've had worse cold, but I'm definitely sick. Hopefully, it will clear up before I got home for Thanksgiving.
On the plus side, it meant I got to work from home all week since I didn't want to get my co-workers sick right before the holiday. It's also nice since it means I can sleep in a bit and not have to drive to and from work.
In other good news, I think I've finished my Christmas decorating for the year. I've often thought about trying to decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving, and I always start. But this is the first time I've actually finished what I think I'll do. I may play around and add a little more here to here. After all, I have lots of decorations I don't use every year. But if I stop here, I'll be happy. Granted, with how late Thanksgiving is falling this year, I need to get a jump on it. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is going to be crazy busy.
And in blog related news, I hit a new milestone this week. I reached 4 million lifetime hits on my blog since I started it almost 12 years ago, at least according to the stats that Blogger keeps for me. I'm very happy about that.
This Past Week on the Blog:
This Coming Week on the Blog:
Book Haul:
For the second week in a row, I just have one book to tell you about. And, honestly, it was a surprise to me.
Late one night this week, I got an email about my Kindle purchased book. Since I hadn't purchased anything, I thought it must be either an error or spam of some kind. But I opened the Kindle app on my phone (what I use to read Kindle books since I don't have an actual Kindle). And a new book started to download. When I saw what it was, I realized it wasn't a mistake.
So what was the book? It was Eternal Empire by Sarah E. Burr. This is the fourteenth and final book in her Court of Mysteries series. I have the rest, although I've only read three of the books so far. I'm planning to listen to the fourth when I drive home for Thanksgiving on Wednesday. Obviously, I have quite a ways to go before I'm ready to read it, but she's offered a pre-order deal, and I took advantage of that. Then promptly forgot that I'd done that until it showed up. I had a good laugh at myself, but I'm not complaining since I really enjoy her books in general and like this series.
What I'm Currently Reading:
Considering we have a holiday coming up, so I won't be reading as much as normal, I've made some interesting choices reading wise.
Okay, enough rambling. Let's talk specifics. The middle grade book, which I finished Friday night, is Wrath of the Triple Goddess, the newest Percy Jackson book from Rick Riordan. I enjoyed it, although I don't think it is quite as good as the earlier books with the characters. Will I read the next one (I'm assuming there is at least one more coming given the premise for these current releases)? Absolutely.
That means, I am currently reading Flower Power Trip by James J. Cudney. This is the third in his Braxton Campus Mysteries. I had intended to get back to the series sooner and been trying very hard to get to it the last couple of months. As I said, it's a little longer than the cozies I typically read, but I'm about a third of the way into it as I type this (my goal for the day), and I am enjoying it.
That's it for me. Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving if you live in the United States.
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