November 24th's Sunday/Monday Post

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:

Sunday - Sunday/Monday Post

Monday - Ornament Review: Merida and Snow White

Tuesday - Book Review: We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen

Wednesday - Movie Review: Three Wise Men and a Baby

Thursday - Book Review: Murder at Glenloch Hill by Clara McKenna

Friday - Friday Post featuring Ashes Never Lie

Saturday - Weekly TV Thoughts

This Coming Week on the Blog:

Sunday - Sunday/Monday Post

Monday - Book Review: Wedding Bride and Doom by Mary Karnes

Tuesday - TV Show Review: The Marlow Murder Club - Season 1

Wednesday - Book Review: Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg

Thursday - Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday - Movie Review: Three Wiser Men and a Boy

Saturday - Weekly TV Thoughts

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.

I try to slip in some of the middle grade books I read when I am getting a bit ahead of my review schedule for regular books.  I was looking at where I was and decided I could read one.  It would be fine if I were going to be reading like normal.  But I won't be.  I won't read as much when I'm with my family for Thanksgiving since, you know, family time.  So I probably shouldn't have done that.  Then, the next book I decided to read it a bit longer than the books I typically pick up.  Fortunately, I have a mostly quiet weekend to work on it.  We'll see how this all plays out, I guess.  Mind you, I currently don't have any ARCs I will be reading for December (although I expect to get one).  It's mostly Christmas books I'm trying to get read.  And then have time for a big middle grade book coming out in a couple of weeks.

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.