Happy Sunday! I'm in a mood. Can't tell you which one, but a mood. So today, you get a bit of this, a bit of that. A bit of this from my wild mind as well as a bit of that from the world wide web.
One of the dusty books in my virtual shelves is A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. It's one of those one day I'll get round to it. Saw George Miller Presents His “Anti-Mad Max” in Three Thousand Years of Longing Trailer on Tor which is based on Byatt's book and is quite intriguing. Especially since Idris Elba is in it. Yum. I'll be diving into The Djinn soon.
I recently got sucked into a Korean drama on Netflix, Romance is a Bonus Book which is set in a publishing company. It was quite fascinating and wondered if any of the books mentioned were real. Quite pleased to discover they are! Discovered there are a few K drama's that are based on books.
Stumbled across Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head by Shelby Van Pelt. Reminded me of my very literal minded son when he was young and how I had to rethink each sentence and learn how to talk to him without slang or metaphor. Will definitely be reading Remarkably Bright Creatures this year.
As we all know, Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors. Her assistant Laura recently posted her latest Notes from a Cranky Publicist in which she mentioned books she read while recovering from hip surgery. Besides Nora of course, she listed several great books including other authors I love such as Nalini Singh and Sarah Addison Allen. She talked about some new to me authors and Beach Read by Emily Henry and Every Summer After by Carley Fortune immediately went on my wish list. My ever growing wish list because my buying ban is still in force. Maybe I'll break down in June.
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I finished my reread of S.K.Dunstall’s Stars Uncharted and started the 2nd book in the series, Stars Beyond. (ebook)
Finished Jodi Taylor’s 4th book in her Chronicles of St. Mary’s series with A Trail through Time.
And thanks to my son for buying me Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance in his Stormlight archive series, which will take me a while since it’s quite chunky.
I think my sip read of George Eliot’s Middlemarch is probably going to take me the rest of the year.
I did a stupid thing on Thursday. Forgot I’m not as flexible as I used to be. I attempted to shave my legs by resting my foot up on the bathroom counter. I lost my balance and landed flat on my back. Ouch! Ever felt like you were falling in slow motion? Weird. But nothing broken fortunately. Heating pad whenever I’m sitting; Tylenol, and Salonpas patches have kept me mobile. Oy!
Watched the remainder of Romance is a Book, Sandra Bullock’s Lost City which was hilarious, as well as Jennifer Hudson’s Respect which wasn’t so hilarious. Plus got sucked into the Dep/Heard thing for a bit.
