Sunday Post/Mailbox Monday 8/19/18: On Re-Reading Books, BBQ etc.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog…

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists….

Good morning and happy Sunday. Where is August going so quickly? We had rain pretty much all week again here and the humidity feels gross. Last Saturday’s dinner plans were canceled because of the flash flooding. This weekend we went to a food festival and decided to go rain or shine and lucked out with rain showers for about 40 minutes or so while we were eating under the tented area so it worked out. This upcoming week it looks like it will be clearing up hopefully. Also, thank you for your input on my commenting question on my last updates post. It seems a few others have also had the issue with the comments going to spam or needing to be approved.

Onto my updates….

This week on the blog:

I reviewed Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou which was a great psychological thriller. I recommend.

In My Mailbox:

I received an ARC of Dinner Party by Tracy Bloom via Bookouture. I read No-one Ever Has Sex on Christmas Day by this author this past January and I enjoyed it so I’m looking forward to reading this one.

Beth, Sarah and Marie have been friends forever. Now they are grown up, with busy lives, busy husbands, busy kids… but they still find time to meet up over dinner once a month. A cosy, comfortable gathering of happy couples – or so they thought.

Until one night, someone brings along a last-minute guest whose wife has just left him.

Simon is standing on the doorstep in floods of tears. While the women do their best to console him, their husbands feel the need to mark their territory.

And as Simon becomes more involved with the group, his presence changes everything these three couples thought they knew about each other, leading to a final dinner party that no-one will ever forget.

Re-Reading:

I’m back to my re-reading of  Needful Things by Stephen King. I started re-reading this one in mid-May but then set it aside on and off again for review reads and other books and it’s time to get back in and finish this one. I’m more than halfway through it. At over 790 pages long it’s more like 3 books in one.

Which brings me to this….which I found on Instagram. Very true:

Do you re-read your favorites? Or is once enough? I’m definitely a re-reader. I feel like it’s comforting knowing a book is going to be good. 

 

Watching:

I’ve been hooked on 90 Day Fiance for a few seasons. It’s a guilty pleasure, I’ve got my hubby watching with me as well lol. His reactions are funny because he is old school, he’s not online at all, no social media so it’s beyond him how people meet and how some fall in love online. He cannot believe it. Does anyone watch this show?

I’ll close with picks of the BBQ/food festival we drove out to this weekend. Good food and live music made for a nice day out with family. We got lucky with the weather because it rained while we were eating under the tented area, but then the skies cleared for the rest of the day and into the evening there. August has been such a rainy month.

There were over 60 food vendors there with mainly BBQ but there was other stuff like Kettle corn, funnel cakes, wine stands, moonshine and bourbon stands, all kinds of fun things to see and try plus some free samples too to tempt.

We got the family platter, my favorite were the pulled pork sandwiches and corn bread.

The Blackberry Sangria Slushee was very yum and refreshing. There was an 80’s and 90’s cover band as well as a Led Zeppelin tribute band which was fun to watch and listen while walking around seeing the different food vendors. All in all, it turned out to be a really fun day.

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And last but not least, a favorite with Aretha Franklin and George Michael. xo Enjoy your weekend, what are you up to? What are you reading or -re-reading?

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