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
- Finished and reviewed A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
- Signed up for the 2024 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge
- Signed up for the 2024 Diversity Reading Challenge
- Signed up for the 2024 Bookish Books Reading Challenge
- Posted Top Ten Tuesday – Books on my Winter 2023-2024 TBR List
- Posted Books from the Backlog – Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
- Posted Book Beginnings and the Friday 56 – Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Finished and reviewed Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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!
I would also love to get Divine Rivals and/or Encyclopedia of Faeries read before the end of the year. They’ll probably end up lingering into 2024 for me though.
My Sunday Post 🙂 https://backshelfbooks.com/2023/12/17/the-sunday-post-reviewing-and-looking-ahead-12-17-2023/
Yeah, I’m not sure that I’ll be able to read Divine Rivals and/or Emily Wilde before the end of the year either, but I’ll try!
I went to the Zoo Lights at the LA Zoo tonight. So much fun. Went with a couple of friends, and it was great! As you said, so much to see.
Oh you already went! I’m glad you had fun with your friends!
I love Zoo Lights! Such a fun way to visit the zoo. 🙂
Enjoy your week!
It is! The zoo looks so different at night with the zoolights, I hardly recognize it from when we go during the day!
I knew we have Zoo Lights at the Denver Zoo, but it’s so far away that I’ve never gone to it. Your lights look awesome!
Thank you! I hope you get to visit your zoo lights one day too!
Those lights look pretty.
Have a great week.
Thank you! Hope you have a great week too.
Great photos! Enjoy the season.
Thank you! I hope you do too!
Zoolights looks lovely! Glad you had a nice time!
Thank you! It was great!
Those zoo lights are so beautiful, thanks for sharing them. What a glorious evening. Hope you find one or two beginning of series books that you really like.
Thank you! I wanted to do the challenge because I really wanted to finish some of the series I’ve started. I don’t like feeling like I’m half done and not finished, and now what do I go and do? Start more series!!
The Zoolights are awesome! Such a great idea! Here’s my SP: https://bonniereadsandwrites.com/2023/12/17/sunday-post-holiday-fun-merrychristmas-happyholidays/
Right? I wonder who had the first idea of putting lights at the zoo for Christmas!
The Christmas lights are so pretty! I don’t feel like we have done anything to celebrate the season yet. I hope you have a great week!
You’ve got plenty of time to celebrate! I hope you enjoy it whatever you do. Have a great week!
I love all those lights at the zoo! We had something similar in my area last month. Have a wonderful week ahead!
Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful week too!
The zoo lights are so pretty! I went a few years ago and I want to go back again.
I hope you get to go back again and I hope you love it!
Zoo Lights looks so pretty and fun! Hope you have a wonderful week!
Thank you! I hope you do too!
The zoo looks like visiting a fairytale!
It really does, doesn’t it? I feel like going again!
I enjoyed Children of Blood and Bone too. I haven’t read the sequel yet though.
Jill
http://www.allthebooksihaventread.com/
I’m saving the sequel for next year, but I’m so happy to have read the first one!
That Zoolights event looks so much fun! Thanks for posting so many pictures, I enjoyed seeing them. That’s great it was cold enough to feel Chrismassy, but not too cold to be uncomfortable. Too bad about those books you started that didn’t work for you, but that’s nice you found one that you enjoyed. From the books on your TBR list I enjoyed Poison Study, I read it years ago, but I remember really enjoying the series. I hope you’ll have a great week 🙂
Yay, I’m so happy you liked the pictures! There were a couple of years when I didn’t take any at all so these ones made me happy. Thanks for the Poison Study endorsement, it’s been on my tbr for the longest time and I really think it’s time I read it! I hope you have a wonderful week!
What a great event at the zoo. Sounds like the start of a new tradition. 🙂 It’s been years since I read anything by Dean Koontz but I used to love his books. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to pick up Stolen Heir. I felt like the original trilogy ended in a good place. Thanks for visiting my Sunday Post, Haze!
Omigosh yes, I would love to have it become tradition! I’ve only read one other book by Koontz and I loved it. I don’t know why I haven’t read his other books yet. Thank you for visiting my Sunday Post, Tanya! <3
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