Welcome to 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?
We finished month end close at work successfully. Sounds like just about everyone in the company had some extra stuff to deal with. Fortunately for me, my extra stuff had been included the week before, so this week was a little easier. Which meant I got to start in on the account reconciliations for the month. The ones that have been problems before are still being difficult. It would be nice if they fixed themselves upon occasion, wouldn't it?
Awe, the glamorous life on an accountant.
In other news, it was really windy on Wednesday. It had died down some by Thursday. But Wednesday was the first time in a while that they cut our power as a prevention against fires starting. Or, I should specify, my neighbors' power. I could look down the street, and one side had power but the other side didn't. Fortunately, I was in the part of my complex that had power. It's strange how they can work sometimes, isn't it? They didn't get their power back until sometime Thursday night/Friday. It was still off when I got home at 8:45 PM Thursday night. The winds had pretty much died down by then, but they'd been without power for over 24 hours.
Got my car smogged Saturday morning.
Really, don't I have the most exciting life?
I was going to start some Christmas decorating this week. I got as far as rearranging furniture in my living room, but that's it. Hopefully, I can pull out my trees this coming week.
But today is game day (I'm typing this at 12:06 PM Saturday afternoon). So let's get this finished so I can go and have some fun.
Pun of the Week:
This Past Week on the Blog:
This Coming Week on the Blog:
Book Haul:
Let's start with an ebook collection I probably didn't need. The Kindle set of the first 8 Dorothy Martin mysteries from Jeanne M. Dams went on sale last week. As of my typing this, it is still $1.99. I've read a couple of her books, and always intended to read more, so I snagged them. Last night, over a week after I bought them, I remembered that I have a bunch of hardcovers sitting on my shelves. So I probably already have these books. But at that price, I don't feel too badly if I didn't need to get them.
I also got a Kindle deal on A Lack of Temperance, the first Hattie Davish mystery from Clara McKenna. I read one of the books back when these books were first being published under the author's real name, Anna Loan-Wilsey. I enjoyed it, but I never got back to it. Now that I'm reading her current series published as Clara McKenna, I've been wanting to go back and read more of this earlier series. So it was great to snag this one.
My final Kindle deal was Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum. This is a non-fiction book about the birth of reality TV. While there are a lot of those shows I don't watch, I do watch enough that I was interesting in this book.
Now, to find the time to read all of these books.
What I'm Currently Reading:
But that's for the future. Here's what I'm reading now.
Friday night, I finished up We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen. This is book eighteen in her Royal Spyness series, set in England in the 1930's. It wasn't the strongest in the series. But I'll have about it when I publish my review in a week or so.
As I type this, I'm about 50 pages into Murder at Glenloch Hill by Clara McKenna. Yep, the author I was talking about in the Book Haul section. This is book six in her Stella and Lyndy series set in England in the early 1900's. We've actually in Scotland for this book at a golf tournament. So far, there's lot of tension, but the murder hasn't happened yet. I'm enjoying it, although I am missing some of the supporting players who aren't on this trip.
That's it for me. Enjoy your week!
Sounds like an interesting week.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your books and good luck with the decorating. My son keeps going on about getting the Christmas stuff out. My partner isn't having any of it 🤣 we need to move bits around first too.
Have a good rest of the week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/stacking-the-shelves-84/
A lot of bloggers are not even mentioning Nov. 5, as if it never happened. Guess that's a good way to avoid contentious comments from readers. Have a great week.
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Look at all the wonderful deals you found this week. That's fantastic.
ReplyDeleteHope you get time next week to start Christmas decorating.
It must be getting toward the end of the year if Mark is getting out the trees. I look forward to seeing how they look once you're done.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about smog tests!!! I was in Arkansas for 6-ish years and they don't believe in smog tests.
ReplyDeleteYes, contentious comments and posts, as though the country wasn't divided enough! Too early for Christmas, I'm only planning for Thanksgiving right now, as far as holidays go.
ReplyDeleteThanks for two updates on books by a favorite author and one I want to read. Rhys Bowen and Clara McKenna.
I have Cue the Sun on my Kindle wishlist and I saw the $1.99 deal the other day, but wasn't in the mood for it. Now I wish I had gotten it because my reading moods swing regularly. I know I've seen it on sale at least once before, so maybe it will have a $1.99 price again. 📘
ReplyDeleteHave a great new week. ☀
Early Christmas decorating? Is that something you try every year?
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I was just talking to my husband this weekend about how all we ever do is work. Very boring.
ReplyDeleteNo Christmas decorations here yet, but I am aching to get started.
Your books look great. So long since I've read Rhys Bowen. Enjoy your week.
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Sounds like an interesting week. I'm glad you didn't have your power cut off. It is really windy here today too. I could feel and hear it against the house. I need to catch up on Stella and Lyndy. I just listened to book 4. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI think a not so exciting life is not a bad thing. Typically when we have a lot of exciting things going on there's also a lot of stress! I have the Rhys Bowen series coming up on my TBR and just finished an earlier book in the series and really enjoyed it. I think we are putting up Christmas decorations next week and am looking forward to it. I hope you have a great week!
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