My Monday tradition, including a look back and a look ahead — what I read last week, what new books came my way, and what books are keeping me busy right now. Plus a smattering of other stuff too.
Life.
In an otherwise busy week of work, I had two great brushes with cultural life. One, I went with my son to see a wonderful hula performance over the weekend. And two, I GOT TICKETS TO SEE HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD ON BROADWAY! Granted, the tickets are for June, so that’s a pretty long time from now, but I’m still super excited!
What did I read last week?
Guts: The Anatomy of the Walking Dead by Paul Vigna: Clearly, you have to be a fan to enjoy this one… but since I am, I did. My review is here.
Elsewhere on the blog:
Check out my post summing up the glory of listening to the His Dark Materials trilogy audiobooks.
Outlander !!
The print shop! It was the reunion of the (18th) century last night on Outlander! I’ll have my reaction post up later today or tomorrow.
The Walking Dead:
If I spend all day yawning today, blame the premier of The Walking Dead! Couldn’t stop thinking about it, therefore didn’t get much sleep, and I’m likely to spend the day looking like this:
Life is hell before my morning coffee…
Fresh Catch:
Another batch of my E-Bay Georgette Heyer purchases arrived this week:
I also treated myself to two books from the new Tor collection of mini-hardbacks:
I posed them here alongside my Funko Pops to give a sense of their size. They’re really adorable little hardcover books. Find out more about the collection here.
What will I be reading during the coming week?
Currently in my hands:
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) by Philip Pullman: I’m so excited to be started this! I’m only a few chapters in so far, but loving it.
Now playing via audiobook:
Indexing by Seanan McGuire: Fairy tales are real! This audiobook is lots of fun. Should be done by the end of the week.
Ongoing reads:
Book group reads:
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott: My book group’s classic read! We’re reading and discussing two chapters per week.
- Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon: Outlander Book Club is doing a Lord John readalong — we’ll be reading all of the Lord John novels and stories in story chronology. Let me know if you’d like to participate! All are welcome.
Via Serial Reader:
- I decided to finally dive in and start Great Expectations! I’m using the Serial Reader app, and really liking it so far.
So many books, so little time…
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Woo hoo for those tickets! That will be such a fun trip in June. I only live 3 hours from NYC (and my parents are only a commuter train ride away) so I really should investigate tickets myself!
I’m so excited! I think the first batch of tickets already sold out (through next November), but they’ll be releasing more, so stay on the lookout. 🙂 It’s definitely a splurge for me, but since I have family in the area, I’ll make a trip out of it.