The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news: a post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. Borrowed from Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
It was the longest short week that existed I promise you. On Thursday I developed a bit of a summer cold. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I fought a runny nose, sore throat, headache, and fatigue. It’s been fun. I haven’t read much in those three days. Maybe 40 pages? I’m hoping this week to get caught back up. I’ve been sleeping a lot though so we’ll see.
I finished The Black Book by David Ellis & James Patterson and I can’t tell you how good it was! Well yes I can but it probably won’t be up for review for another month. I haven’t been this excited about a book with James Patterson’s name on the cover in a long time! I’ll be reading more from the duo of David Ellis and James Patterson!
At work this week we had a woman be a completely nasty person. She willfully tried to wreck a monthly work tradition. She’s in her 60s and seriously militant. She’s also miserable with her job (she doesn’t want to be there) and is taking it out on those around her. Unfortunately I see a bit of my own attitude in her’s and that scared the crap out of me. I do not want to be her in 30 years. So for now, I’m just kind of watching myself and how I behave towards others around me. I don’t want to add negative space when there are so many people and things that can and do fill that void. I’m not going to go over the top perky but there has to be a nice balance somewhere.
Here’s what we’ve been up to on the blog this week:
Previously on Once Upon a Chapter:
- [28 May] The Sunday Post {5/28/17}
- [29 May] Six of Crows by ★★★★½
- [30 May] Task It Tuesday {5/30/17}
- [31 May] Finding You by Jo Watson ★★★★
- [1 Jun] Stephanie’s May 2017 Book Report
- [2 Jun] Foodie Friday: Turkey Roll Ups
- [3 Jun] Stephanie’s June 2017 TBR
Kindle Freebies:
Review Copies:
Library Haul:
I’m only about 40 pages into this one and I can tell already that I’m going to like it. I like Kate quite a lot and we haven’t even gotten to the juicy details of the book yet!
I was lucky enough to get on a blog tour with Little Bird Publicity for RaeAnne Thayne’s next Haven Point release Serenity Harbor. I adored Snowfall on Haven Point and I’m looking forward to this one too! I actually got to meet RaeAnne at the Tucson Festival of Books when Jeff and I went to visit Alexa and Johnny in AZ. It was a ton of fun. I think adds something a little bit more to the reading experience for myself when I’ve actually seen the author face to face. RaeAnne was a sweet lady to listen to.
Grace Fonseca
You got an amazing haul. I love the covers for your new books.
Grace @ Books of Love
Stephanie
Thanks! I love the cover for Chills!
Shaunesay
I’ll have to check into the Crime and Poetry Magical Bookshop series, that looks fun!
It’s a tough realization when you see yourself in someone else that is doing something you don’t like. But the good thing is that you recognize it, and in recognizing and acknowledging, you can work to not go that way. I completely understand it, only for me it’s with my mom, we are very much alike, but there are many ways I see that she is very unhappy, and I am trying to not go down those paths. That’s all you can do, stay vigilant of what you’re doing and saying, and realize when you veer towards that path you don’t want to go down!
Great Sunday Post, have a wonderful week!
Stephanie
I saw that at the library and I thought why not? Books, magic, and mystery what isn’t to like.
Exactly! I’m glad what I was thinking came through. I just don’t want to be that woman when I get older. There’s no reason to be that sour. Go us for figuring it out! Now as long as we can prevent it we should be golden.
Thank you! I hope your week is just as great!
Laurel-Rain Snow
I love RaeAnne Thayne’s books, although I’ve only read a few.
The Cracked Spine looks tempting. Enjoy your reading…and here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
Stephanie
I really loved Snowfall on Haven Point so I’m pretty excited to get to read this one. It sounds like The Cracked Spine will be a pretty good read once I get around to it. I always adore books that are about books. 🙂
Felicia GeekyBlogger (@thegeekyblogger)
Crime and Poetry is on my TBR 🙂 🙂
Stephanie
Hopefully it’s a good one! I love books about books and cozies to boot. 🙂
herding cats & burning soup
Chills is such an awesome cover. Bummer on the summer cold. That’s such an awful feeling. Hope you’re getting back to feeling totally better. Ergs at the work issue. Been there. Good (even if unsettling) that you caught yourself. That’s never an easy realization but a good thing in the long run, right? 🙂
Stephanie
Let’s hope the story lives up that cover! Feeling much better this week. That’ll probably only last until the next change in the weather. Trying hard to stay positive. I have super high work expectations and a lot of times I don’t think kindly of others who don’t meet them (privately). But still don’t want to get to that point. Much better to catch it at 32 than 62.