Monday Malarkey

Happy Monday! It's spring in our area. If you're sick of snow, I can take some spring photos to share with you. The tulip trees, fruit trees, daffodils, redbuds, and even some azaleas are blooming. And, my yard looks like the Annual Weed Convention has convened. I prefer snow, but I know some of you are sick to death of it.

Recent arrivals:

• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James - from Berkley Books for review
• I Am the Boss of this Chair by Carolyn Crimi and Marisa Morea - from Sterling Children's Books for review

Cat book! Spooky book! Much fun ahead. 

Books finished since last week's Tuesday Twaddle:

• I Am the Boss of this Chair by Crimi and Morea
• The Statue and the Fury by Jim Dees

I hadn't finished The Statue and the Fury at the time of this week's F2F discussion but it was a thunderstorm that kept me from driving the 30 miles to my meeting, this week, not worry about spoilers (it's not a book that can be spoiled). So bummed! I've missed three meetings in a row, now. Fingers crossed that next month's meeting day is a sunny, migraine-free day.

I sat down to read I Am the Boss of this Chair the moment it arrived, of course -- aloud, to the cats. I'm always excited to find any children's books centered on cats and I Am the Boss is loads of fun. It's almost identical to the story of Isabel's arrival and how it upended Fiona's routine.


Currently reading:

• Don Quixote by Cervantes
• Our Native Bees by Paige Embry

I didn't read a single page of Don Quixote until yesterday. But, then I finally got in my daily quota. Since I'm just buddy reading with two other people and they were well behind me, we've inserted yet another catch-up week but hopefully it will be the last. Just knowing there are other people reading with me has successfully kept me from giving up when I didn't get around to reading and had to flip back to refresh my memory. Buddy reading is definitely motivating.


Last week's posts:

• January Reads in Review, 2018 (brief descriptions of everything I read + a photo and links to full reviews)
• Two DNFs, why I stopped reading them, and whether or not I'll give them a second chance 
• Fiona Friday - Clearly, there's a story here. (cat photo)

No book reviews, for once! I've been thinking I need to branch out a little, now and then, and do some different posts but I seem to be perpetually behind on book reviews. Still, I may try to do an essay about book thoughts, now and then, just for a change of pace. Don't want to be boring.


In other news:


Just TV news . . .  I watched the season finale of Victoria, last night, and enjoyed it. Have I mentioned that the voice of Don Quixote in my head is that of the actor playing Ernst in Victoria (David Oakes)? I love his voice. He'd make an excellent audio book narrator, in my humble opinion. I thought it was nice that the Duchess of Buccleuch finally seemed to play a reasonable role in the happenings at the palace. Diana Rigg has seemed a bit wasted in that part because so little happened with her, till the final episode. I don't recall watching any other TV, last week, apart from the movie Kinky Boots when Huzzybuns and I were having a lazy evening. Hopefully, I'll get back to Dr. Who, this week. Have you watched anything terrific, lately?



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