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!
