Sunday Post/Mailbox Monday 8/14 Updates After Blog Hiatus

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….

Hi everybody. If you’re reading this thank you for stopping by today. I’ve been on blog hiatus since late March. Just life keeping me busy but also my computer sucks and I need to purchase a laptop this way I can blog from the comfort of my couch or bed instead of actually having to log onto this old dinosaur. Also, what’s with the WordPress ads? It seems they’ve taken over, I need to go ad free I guess. If you’re on WordPress are you ad free?

I won’t bore you with too much rambling but I’ve been enjoying my summer, we went on vacation to the lake for a week in June and just the usual other stuff is going on. I’m still working on a hybrid schedule which is great. I’m off work this upcoming week and plan on doing a day trip here or there then lounging in my pajamas as much as I can. We’ve had a very hot couple of weeks here with heat advisories and now it finally seems to be letting up a little. I haven’t read too much lately but I’ll be reviewing what I have been reading. I’ve been crocheting alot.

onto my bookish updates…

recently on the blog: I dove right on in and posted 3x this past week.


Book Spotlight: Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy Debut by Leigh Seippel


Book/Author Spotlight: Little Dirt Road and Juiced by Ted Mulcahey.


I re-read Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice.

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in my mailbox:

Oooh! I met Norman Reedus a few months ago!



He was very nice. He gave me a fist bump. He was on book tour for his book called The Ravaged. Unfortunately you couldn’t take a picture with him, you were just allowed to go up and get him to autograph your book but he was so nice and it was worth waiting in line to get to meet him in person. I’m a big TWD fan so this was awesome. He was so Daryl in person lol. I took this pic below while waiting in line to meet him.



The Little House by the Sea (Pennystrand Village Book 1) came via NetGalley/Bookouture. I love this cover and this sounds like a perfect summer read.



I purchased a copy of My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife A Library of America Special Publication when I visited Grant Cottage again this summer while on vacation. The cottage is near where we stay so I took my parents out there for a guided tour of the cabin. They have a little store on the grounds as well as a small museum. I’ll share my thoughts on this one soon.

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That pretty much wraps it up, what have you been up to this summer? What are you reading? Watching? I actually just finished re-watching Midnight Mass last weekend. It is so good and was worth the re-watch. I’ve also been watching Becoming Elizabeth which is very good.

I’ll be blog hopping and catching up a little this week. Stay well 🙂 I’ll close with a few vacation views from June.








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Sunday Post/Mailbox Monday 11/11/18: I am back and baby it’s cold outside.

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….

Hello everyone. Happy Sunday Happy November. Happy reading.
I am sending my thoughts and prayers to the people in California with the major fires burning there now. It is so scary to see the news.

I went MIA for a little bit on blog land recently, because I was in Puerto Rico on vacation for one week. See the palm trees above? Yep. This past week was my first week back home and I am still kind of on vacation mode. Going to beautiful, sunny Puerto Rico was amazing. It is funny how I got used to the warm sunny temps (high 80’s) and going to the beach in October, meanwhile back home we had cold Fall temps and shorter days. We spent the days by the pool and the beach as well as sightseeing. We also visited some family.

Sunday Post/Mailbox Monday 8/12/18: Enjoying the Summertime and Reading Good Books

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….

Hello everyone. I haven’t done an updates/mailbox post in a few weeks. I’ve been enjoying my summer, I hope you have been as well. I went away on vacation, came back and stood on vacation mode for a few weeks after that. I took the pic above by the lake on vacation, it was so peaceful and I enjoyed the view very much.

We’ve had a rainy couple of weeks here with flash flooding yesterday and I’m hoping the rain lets up. With all the rain yesterday I didn’t go out to run my usual Saturday errands but I finished reading my book so that was good.

I also enjoyed doing this on vacation last month, crochet. There is something to be said for not having any set schedule, sleeping in, staying up late, taking an afternoon nap and soaking in the sun every day.

Mailbox Monday 8/28/17: The Little Library by the Lake

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.

Happy Monday everyone, well, almost Monday here. I’m posting this a few hours early. I still can’t believe the end of August is here. I love this time of year though, as the season is beginning to change and cooler mornings and evenings feel nice.
I found a cozy little library on our family vacation at the lake last month within walking distance of our cabin community and I’ve been meaning to post about it. I stopped in to visit one morning, they allow non-state residents to borrow books for the week with picture i.d. and they have free wi-fi and offer you cookies and coffee and tea. Then the kindest librarian brought out a box of ARC’s for sale and told me to help myself. I’m not making this up, it really happened. There’s also a little gazebo nestled outside where you can sit and read outside if you prefer. You can see some of the gazebo if you look through the window in the picture below.