Welcome to the Sunday Post, a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer to share weekly news and updates on what we’ve been up to on our blog, with our books, and book-related happenings.
Superhuman!
Last week I was very responsible. I caught up with almost all my book reviews, updated my reading challenges, did some journaling, got a lot of cleaning and reorganizing done, ran a couple of 5ks, and did some meal planning ahead of time. Am I even human?!
I am proud of me but now I’m not sure if I can ever perform at this level ever again!
It’s not all work and no play though. I read some really good books too, and watched a couple of scary movies – I don’t know why we chose scary movies, it just turned out that way.
On my watchlist:
We watched The Monkey and Nosferatu, and they were both really creepy but The Monkey had a little more levity than Nosferatu. I enjoy a little bit of morbid humor sometimes. The Monkey is an adaptation of a Stephen King story and we all know I love Stephen King.
Nosferatu has got an amazing cast and the acting from every one of them was superb. It was so intense, I couldn’t stand it, I had to take breaks in between. If you like horror, I highly recommend both these movies!
The Books
Books I read last week:
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman – I ended up getting this book from the library on a “skip the line” basis and I jumped on it because I’d been wanting to read it for a while. So glad I did! I loved it!
- The Long Walk by Stephen King – Also a “skip the line” borrow. And a reread, but it’s been a while. I love how so much of King’s books are psychological. I didn’t remember how he managed to write a whole book out of people just walking, but he did it so well and I’m excited to watch the film adaptation coming out soon!
- Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca – Erin @ Cracker Crumb Life featured this book in her Top Ten Tuesday Beachy Reads post a couple of weeks ago and I was intrigued! I got the book a couple of days ago and finished it yesterday because it was so good! Thanks for the rec, Erin!
Books I’m reading:
- The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin – I had a false start last week and got distracted by several other books that “skipped the line” so I’m trying again this week.
Last Week on The Blog
I finished so many book reviews!! I’m almost all caught up, but I’m reading just a little faster than I’m reviewing and I feel like I need new rules that I can’t start a book until I’m done reviewing the one I just finished! I know I don’t have to take reviewing so seriously and I do sometimes skip them, but it’s important to me to record the books I’ve read somewhere, otherwise I’ll forget them and feel like I need to read them again.
- Top Ten Tuesday | Stephen King Books That Are Not Horror
- Book Review | The Wild Robot Series by Peter Brown
- Book Review | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Book Review | Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Book Review | Swept Away by Beth O’Leary
- Book Review | The Love Haters by Katherine Center
- Book Review | A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
- Book Review | If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Book Review | Revival by Stephen King
- Book Review | The Crêpes of Wrath by Sarah Fox
- Book Review | A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
This Week
I haven’t gotten started on any of the books on my August TBR yet. After I finish The Keeper of Hidden Books, I’ll get started on them, I promise!
How was your week? I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!
Busy busy blog week! Good job on (almost) catching up with reviews. 😀
Haunted Ever After sounds like fun…
Yes, I really enjoyed it!
Wow I’m impressed you wrote so many reviews in one week — that is super human! I need to read the review posts. And I’m glad you liked the TJR book. I thought it was a good one (on my summer list). You are getting so organized before school! I can’t believe how fast summer is going. I’m wondering if I’m brave enough to watch Nosferatu … I’m super chicken on horror films. But the imagery seems good. Cheers.
Thank you! I’m still quite disorganized and have a long way to go, but at least I’ve gotten started. I’m too chicken myself to recommend Nosferatu too enthusiastically. Just, if you decide to watch it, good luck! 😂
Congrats on your book reviews! I hope some day to do the same, smile.
Thank you!
Wow you did review a lot of books last week. I have a regular schedule and try to read ahead. Right now I’m a week or two ahead which allows a bit more “free” reading for library books or ones I own.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I love routines and schedules and I love that you’ve got one that works for you. I’ve been all over the place with my schedule and I’m hoping to find something that sticks.
LOL, am I even human, haha. Yay for a productive week and getting mostly caught up on reviews. I think it helps to remember they don’t all have to be long reviews! Change it up every once in a while, it might make it easier. Have a great week!
Thanks for the great advice! I’m trying to find a happy medium that works for me. I definitely “cheat” sometimes by writing one review for the whole book series, instead of one per book, but it doesn’t always work especially if I don’t finish all the books in the series close to each other! 😅
It always surprises me how good books are that others have encouraged me to read but I’ve resisted reading once I finally get around to reading them. I’ve glad Ove worked out well for you.
You’re welcome!! Also I don’t think I could watch The Monkey. That short story creeped me out so much!! It has stayed with me.