4/16-An Unsophisticated Reading List

I’m pretty excited about my books this week. I’m gonna read 2 Jack Reacher books, Without Fail and Persuasion, H is for Homicide, and Code Girls, a story I have been looking forward to reading for weeks. I had planned on reading Ghostlands, but Code Girls is due back at the library sooner, and I think I should be able to read it pretty quickly.

Also, I’m sorry for not getting this post out on Monday, as usual, but I forgot to set it to post after I left for work…

 

Are you reading anything interesting or exciting this week?

4/9- An Unsophisticated Reading List:Last week take 2

So, for some reason, Running the Books took a week to read. I was able to finish it over the weekend, and I’ll get you all the review tomorrow. This week I’m going to finish the rest of last week’s plan, plus my book club’s scheduled book, once it arrives in the mail. Finding the original edit of Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, was surprisingly difficult. Also, Without Fail has gone temporarily missing, so it may not be my next book, as it usually would, but I will find it.

Are you all reading anything amazing this week?

 

UPDATE!!!!!

I finally found Without Fail. Where? you might ask… I found it in my car, against the front passenger door. It tried to jump for a puddle when I opened the door to put my groceries in the car… But it is safe and sound, see:

Also, Annihilation finally showed up. I will start it after I finish G, so I can for sure have it done before Friday’s meeting. I’m still sad that I couldn’t locate a copy at one of my bookstores, but no one had the right edition…

4/2 An Unsophisticated Reading List

This week I will be reading G is for Gumshoe, Ghostland, and the unpictured Without Fail. I will also be finishing Running the Books, which, so far, is really good.

Also, be prepared for more cat pictures and maybe puppy pictures as well. My brother-in-law got a tiny puppy and I may have to inflict her on you all.

Good luck this Monday!

Happy Caturday!

It’s Caturday, everyone! I’m happy/jealous if you are off. I’m slaving away at my day job today (Gotta pay the bills somehow.),  but I thought the world should see how my boys took care of me this week, while I was under the weather, so here you go!

Miles offering tummy rubs. This is not a trap, folks. He loves tummy rubs!

This is Tiny being jealous that Miles is getting all the pets right now.

Not pictured: Spot. He couldn’t care less that Mom felt like death. All he knew was that dinner was late, and this is unforgivable.

3/26-An Unsophisticated Reading List

This week I will be reading and reviewing F is for Fugitive, Echo Burning, Running the Books, and I will be finishing Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase.

I should have Buster done tonight. It has been so fascinating reading about him. I didn’t know exactly what an amazing gag-man and director he was. I’m going to have to find his movies and watch them.

As for the rest of the books this week… I have yet to be disappointed by either Sue Grafton or Lee Child. And a book about a jailhouse librarian? Yes, please. Last week’s books were awesome and amazing and my expectations for this week are high. I also have tentative plans for some new posts. We’ll see how those go.

Running Blind vs Without Fail: I’ve Made a Terrible Mistake!

I’m blaming the ear infection for this! When I posted my list for the week I included Without Fail by Lee Child. However, I didn’t read Without Fail because that would be reading out of order, and I can’t do that. (I mistakenly read a series out of order once and had to start over from the beginning once I realized what I had done. Good thing I liked those books.)I actually read Running Blind, which looks like this:

As you can see the cover of Running Blind is dark and in blues and greens, not the golden bright cover of Without Fail. There is literally only one excuse for the mix u, and that is my ear infection. I now totally understand why kids scream their heads off when they have ear infections. It felt like an ice pick was stabbing me through my eardrum. I wanted to die. However, thanks to the wonders of modern medicine, I feel mostly fine now, so watch out world I’m back and as cheesy as ever.

3/19-An Unsophisticated Reading List

This week I will be reviewing E is for Evidence, Without Fail, Artemis, and Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. I am really excited about all of these especially Artemis and Buster. Artemis is the book of the month for my book club, and I loved Andy Weir’s first book. Buster is especially exciting for me because he and I are related, and I know very little about that side of my family. I can’t wait to see how this week’s reading goes!

E, F, G, & H

This week, after a traumatic experience at a new book store, I went to a comfortable place, The Book Bin in Corvallis, with my tax return, alone…

This is just as dangerous as it sounds. I went in with a plan, to get E, and maybe a couple of other books. I did get E and a couple of other books, and a few more than a couple. I purchased E, F, G, H, Monument’s Men, Band of Brothers, two Carrie Fisher books, a book I heard about on NPR, and a book I found while wandering. I also bought a Book Bin bag to carry my books home in, since there is a bag ban in Corvallis. All told the damage was just under $100. This is why I am not supposed to go to any book store unsupervised. Consider this a sneak peak of what will be coming in the next few weeks.

The Hunt for D

I took a long time to write this blog because, for the first time in my life, I did not like the book store I went to to get D. I went to Browser’s Books in Albany, and it was not well organized. There were stacks of books all over the floor. It was difficult to find one of the most popular mystery authors, who has 25 very distinctive books, because of the lack of organization. The ship felt claustrophobic to me, and I will probably not be going back to that particular book store.

I struggled to write this post, because I truly do not want to hurt any local shop’s business. However, I also do not want to lie about my experience, and have someone else go and be shocked or upset, because I gave a dishonest review of a book store. I know that everyone’s experiences in book stores is different, and there are probably people who love going to book stores whose organization consists of stacks of books all over the floor, and in Browser’s defense, it was the cheapest I had found an alphabet book so far. Now, on to reading the thing.

Cat-astrophy!

So, I’m working my way through A, happily, but I’m not ready to review it yet. And, not that I’m making excuses… But I’m totally blaming my cats. They keep cuddling, and laying on my book, and making me fall asleep in my chair…

In place of a book review today I thought I would shame my sweet, darling, infuriating fur-sons.

Meet Spot. He’s 11 years old and almost 20lbs. He likes food, naps on my favorite blanket, and bathing himself in the middle of the hallway. He chews loudly on cardboard when it’s time to get up. He is a jerk at 5 am.

This is Miles. He is my delicate flower, my middle child, my momma’s boy. He weighs about 15lbs and is 10. He loves to cuddle, but only with me, and sit on shoulders, but only mine, and he likes to sing the songs of his people at 3 am.

Meet Tiny, actual name Ouroboros. He doesn’t actually answer to that, ever. He’s 1 1/2 and maybe 10lbs. He is still a ball of energy and makes the house crazy on a regular basis. He likes to eat socks and toes. His favorite place to sleep is on top of Papa’s computer tower or on Mama’s face or on whatever Mama is looking at that isn’t him. I often tell him he’s lucky he’s cute, or he’d be boots.

Tomorrow I should have a review for you.