Welcome to 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
Mailbox Monday
It's Monday, What Are You Reading?
I just heard the great news. Vicki at I'd Rather Be at the Beach has revived Mailbox Monday. So be sure to join in the fun.
Last weekend, the TV in my living room stopped working correctly. It shut itself off after being on for an hour or so. It would cycle on and off trying to stay on for me. I put off having someone come to look at it until Friday (one of the days I work from home anyway). He took one look at it and said he'd have to order the part and come back next weekend to repair it.
So I'm spending a lot of time camped out in the bedroom watching TV in there on my very old TV. Seriously, this is standard definition, square, tube TV. I've had it for almost 30 years. I rarely turn it on these days, but it's getting lots of use at the moment. The down side is, my bedroom isn't set up for much more than sleep these days, so it's not as comfortable as my bedroom. Oh well, first world problem for sure.
In other news, I went paddle boarding today. This is only the second time I've gone since I hurt my shoulder almost two years ago. My shoulder bothered me a couple of times, but it wasn't that bad. Definitely thinking I'm going to have to get a pass again soon. Just got to figure out how to balance everything else I want to do on weekends. Especially since there are times it's nice to just do nothing on a weekend. The weather was absolutely wonderful for it. We had highs in the 70's today, and it should be going higher over the next few days. Very little wind as well. Weather can be very unpredictable in So Cal this time of year, so it is great to take advantage of it when we can. No, I didn't try to stand. That was me kneeling on the board.
This Past Week on the Blog:
This Coming Week on the Blog:
Book Haul:
Up first is The Corpse at Caddo Lake by Jayna Morrow. This is the first in a series featuring a full time RVer. I keep saying I want to find more series with camping/RVing as a theme. Then I don't actually read them. But I've been eyeing this one for a while, so I snagged it when it went on sale.
The rest of these are on sale (not that the first one is super expensive at regular price).
Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives crossed my radar in the last couple of weeks, and it looked like it could be lots of fun. It takes place in a small British village. It's the first of two books (at least so far) from Rick Bleiweiss.
We're staying across the pond for the two books I got today (Saturday). Both are by authors I already know I enjoy.
The first is Alyssa Maxwell's A Pinch of Poison. This is the second in her Lady and Lady's Maid mysteries set in the 1920's. I haven't started this series yet (and don't have the first book), but I'm really enjoying her Gilded Newport series, so I'm sure I will want to read these eventually.
The other book is also a historical mystery - Murder Takes the Stage by Colleen Cambridge. This is book four in her Phyllida Bright Mysteries. I read the first one in January and really enjoyed it. I now have the rest of the series, so I have no excuse not to continue it, right?
What I'm Currently Reading:
As long as we're talking historical mysteries...
I'm currently about a quarter of the way into Silent as the Grave, book 21 in the Molly Murphy series from Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. It's nice to be back in Molly's New York of 1909, but I'm ready for the plot to really kick in. Not sure how much more reading I will get in today, but I'm hoping to make it to 40% or so. At the rate I'm going, I'll probably still be working on it on Monday.
Thanks for the Mailbox Monday shout out, I appreciate it. It's not catching on with people like it did before when I was hosting it with quite a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Molly Murphy mystery series sounds good! I like historical fiction from that time period. Thanks for sharing :)
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