Monday Malarkey

I don't have a photo of this week's book arrivals, so you get a cat. I knew you'd approve.

Posts since last week's Tuesday Twaddle ('cause I blanked and missed Monday):

• More Minis - Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, Doreen by Barbara Noble, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (book reviews)
• Fiona Friday - Book love. I get that. (cat photo)

Once again, not a big blogging week. I just haven't been feeling it, lately. Husband said -- during a moment in which I wondered aloud if I should even bother at all -- "Why stop? If you just write when you feel like it, you've got a reading journal." Husbands can be surprisingly helpful.


Books finished since last week:

• Dancing with Mistletoe by Leslie Wells (novella)
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Arrivals since last week:

• John Halifax, Gentleman by Dina Maria Mulock - from HarperPerennial Legacy for review
• Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh - purchased
• Ghost Town by Richard W. Jennings - via Paperback Swap

Currently reading:

• The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt - Update on this one: I've been reading it off and on for at least a couple weeks. It's wonderful. Although a lot of the names were probably familiar to people when she wrote it and are not familiar to me (the wealthy, politically positioned and famous), I don't bother worrying about who's who. I just enjoy the anecdotes and the view from inside politics in a different time period. It's a fascinating read but it will take me some time to finish.
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - Recommended by Michele of A Reader's Respite and purchased in e-book form (shock!!!) when it went on sale at a price I thought I could swallow (I still don't feel right spending more than a few dollars for an electronic book). Loving this one, so far. Michele gives excellent recommendations.

Movies:

None. And, not much in the way of TV, either. We drove up to Memphis to look for a new pan at the Williams-Sonoma outlet store (all our old non-stick pans are losing their surfaces) and then stopped for a couple hours at Kiddo's to take him out for an early birthday dinner and give him some gifts on Saturday. On Sunday we spent the day cleaning/purging. That book I finished on tidying (mentioned above)? Seriously helpful. I wrote about it on Goodreads the moment I finished and will repeat that review, here, tomorrow.

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