The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
I like this meme because it gives me an opportunity to take a look back at last week and forward to next week in both my personal life and my blog and book life! I also like to see what other people are doing and what books everyone is reading. This is a great meme to take part in every week and I thank Kimba for hosting it!
Last Week
Home & blog
Rain and more rain . . . and a birthday!
Today is my husband’s birthday! Yay! I got him a book he’s been wanting. It hasn’t been available on Amazon for quite awhile so I found it at The Book Depository. So glad I could get it from there.
We got home from Iowa Monday evening and all week I’ve played catch-up. I did get cards finished and mailed for birthdays, anniversaries and other occasions. Plus a birthday card for my husband!
We’ve had thunderstorms several days this week. Today it started raining in the morning and we’ve had thunderstorms this afternoon plus a flood watch and tornado watch. Our pond has never been so high. At least our grass is nice and green and the plants are growing.
However, when we looked closely at our plants we discovered most of them being eaten by Japanese beetles. One of our roses must have had 50 or more beetles eating the poor plants. I hate these beetles. It makes me feel sick to see our poor plants. Of course, we’re growing several of their favorite plants–roses, birches and crape myrtles. They’ve become a serious problem in North America where they don’t have natural predators. (In Japan they aren’t much of a problem since they have predators to take care of them.) Our next door neighbor has two Japanese beetle traps. Unfortunately, several studies have found the traps may attract more beetles than they trap. Our neighbor doesn’t believe this. 😦
Blog posts
Books
What I’m reading
Disturbed Earth by E. E. Richardson
What I read last week
No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie
When Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
New–Books, E-books, Audiobooks–purchased or free or from library
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Library Books
None
E-books
The Rabbit Factory & Bloodthirsty by Marshall Karp
Laisrathera by M.C.A. Hogarth
Darkness Brutal by Rachel A. Marks (Kindle First book–free)
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
The Book of Bart by Ryan Hill
Audiobooks
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Art of Racing in the Wind by Garth Stein
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
Around the Internet
Free Sync Audio books
Sync is back again for the summer (May 7 – Aug 14). Sync is a program which provides two free young adult audiobook downloads each week. One audiobook is a current audiobook and the other is a classic audiobook. Each set of two books are only available for one week.
To listen to these books you must download Overdrive Media Console. It is available free to download at the Sync site.
For the week of June 25 – July 2
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
For the week July 2 – 9
Echoes of an Angel by Aquanetta Gordon & Chris Macias
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
Next Week
Home & blog
Our guests arrive this next week! I’m excited to see everyone and at the last minute my sister-in-law is able to come, too! Very happy about that. Also our three children are coming. So happy to have everyone visiting. We’re going to make seven trips to airports to pick up and drop off! I’m going to try to get next week’s posts all set up because, of course, I’m not that organized yet!
Blog Posts
- Top Ten Tuesday
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Review: When Last the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
- Review: Lock In by John Scalzi
- Sunday Post
What did you do last week? What books did you collect? What are you planning next week?