Category: Sunday Post

Sunday Post | Zoolights

Posted December 16, 2023 by Haze in Sunday Post, Weekly Book Memes / 35 Comments

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. 

Zoolights

As promised, we went back to the zoo last week for the Zoolights!

It was amazing and far exceeded our expectations! It’s our first time going to the Zoolights, but I’m quite sure it won’t be the last. It might have to be an annual thing from now on. The lights were gorgeous, there was so much to see, everyone there were in good spirits and we bonded a little with other people there helping each other take pictures, and as luck would have it, the weather was perfect. It was cold enough to feel Christmassy, but not so cold that we felt uncomfortable.

We took a lot more pictures than these, because there was so much to see, but I’ll spare you the photo album tour. Wherever you are in the world, I hope you’re enjoying this holiday season (or if you’re not celebrating anything, I hope you’re just enjoying life in general!)!

As for my reading plans last week, I didn’t read the books I originally intended, and I had a couple of false starts (books I started but couldn’t get into), but I ended up getting sucked into Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi and absolutely loving it! So I call that a win!

Last Week on The Blog

This Week

I’m having a hard time deciding what to read because a lot of the books on my TBR are books that fit the 2024 reading challenges I signed up for, and I want to save them for the new year. However, it seems that the Finishing the Series challenge requires that you started the series before 2024, so I’m reading the first books in series I think I might want to finish for the challenge. I might end up not liking them and not wanting to continue them, and I’ve already got lots of series on the list to be finished, but at least I’m giving myself more options!

So this is just a list of books I have on my TBR that are first in a series. Obviously I won’t be able to read them all by the end of the year, but they’re here to motivate me and I’ll do my best to read a couple!

  • Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
  • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
  • Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
  • Stolen Heir by Holly Black
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Storm Front by Jim Butcher
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  • Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
  • A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
  • Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews


I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!

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Sunday Post | Birthday Celebrations

Posted December 9, 2023 by Haze in Sunday Post, Weekly Book Memes / 20 Comments

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. 

Birthday Celebrations

I didn’t get a lot of reading done this past week because it was my husband’s birthday and we did several activities to celebrate, but I did manage to finish one book. We had a nice Sichuan meal. The food was so good, but honestly, not nearly spicy enough. It was our first time at this restaurant and we had the fish, prawns, and pork, but they’ve got lots of other great stuff on the menu and we’re definitely going back for more.

Our local zoo is very good and mindful about wildlife conservation, and the animals always seem happy and well taken care of. There are both indoor and outdoor spaces for the animals that need them and they can easily move between the two when they want depending on the weather.

It was my first time seeing the polar bears, but the otters were the stars of the show this trip. They were very active and frolicking around in the water, playing with seashells and each other. It was so fun to watch. It hadn’t been snowing when we went to the zoo so it looked nice and balmy in the pictures, but it was quite cold and I’m sensitive to the cold so I’m all nice and bundled up.

There were lots of other animals at the zoo too, of course, but we only visited the North American animals section of the zoo this time because it was closed the last times we went and we had already seen the other sections. We are definitely going back as often as we can though, because it’s always such a joy to see the animals playing, or just doing their own thing, and some of them even like performing for the crowd. We’ll be going back again for the Zoolights when it snows, because my husband wants to see them in the snow.

It did snow later in the week, and we went out to see Christmas lights last night. I love how beautiful they all look. My favorites are the peacock, and the big Christmas tree. There are lots of places in Calgary going all out on Christmas lights decoration, and we’re going back for the Zoolights, but we’re going to see if we can visit some other ones too. The Christmas lights are some of the best things about the winter season.

Last Week on The Blog

This Week

I don’t have much planned this week because I was too busy to think, but I do plan to do the weekly memes, and hopefully start reading the books I intended to read last week – Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!

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Sunday Post | My First Sunday Post

Posted December 3, 2023 by Haze in Sunday Post, Weekly Book Memes / 12 Comments

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. 

This past week was my first week book blogging again, so there’s that! There’s nothing much to show on my blog just yet, but I wanted to do a post anyway to commemorate my first week. Plus, although I haven’t posted much yet, I did spend a lot of time browsing other book blogs and book memes, and even signed up for a couple of reading challenges which I’m really excited for!

Last Week

This Week

  • I will be posting my first weekly book memes!
  • Planning to get started on The Classics Club challenge by
  • Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Reading Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
  • Writing a review for The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

Honestly, I’m still new to book blogging again so I don’t know if I can do all that I want to do, especially since the coming weeks are busy end-of-year ones, but I am excited to be here again and I’m going to keep reminding myself that even if I can’t do it all, I’m happy just to be blogging again!

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