Sundays with Sam is a combination of Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews.
My Week in Review
Happy Sunday and Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a great week.
Last Sunday, my daughter and I went to the city. We got some Korean fried chicken and then saw Bigfoot the Musical. It was campy and fun. The actor who played Bigfoot was the same person we saw play Damien in Mean Girls. He was great. Monday, I drove my daughter to Newark airport and made it back to the train station by 5 am. It was short work week. The stock exchange closes for Good Friday, so we had off. I went to the dentist for my six month check up - still cavity free. Today, we are going out to dinner with one of our neighbors. Another low key holiday.
They finally installed the chairlift. It's a little easier for my mother to get up and down now. I really hope they get that part made soon and repair the elevator. It's been over 6 weeks since they closed it.
Did anyone notice an uptick in spam? All of a sudden, I am getting like 50 emails a day that gmail correctly routes to my span folder. I didn't use to get that much.
This year, my daughter and I planned to do a car trip instead of our normal big vacation. The problem is that neither of us likes to plan trips. I have always done tours, Disney cruises, or theme parks (Disney/Universal) which require no real planning. It's tedious, and I am not enjoying the planning. We may end up going nowhere because of this.
On the Blog
Stacking the Shelves
I picked up an auto-approval this week. It's the latest Before the Coffee Gets Cold book. I adore them. I saw The Cozy Nook Bookshop as read-now and downloaded that as well. The author is new-to-me, but it's a cozy bookshop, how could I go wrong?
I thought I had already purchased the Center short story, but I did not, so I did now. I love her stories! Both the invites sound good to me. I LOVED Skye's last book, so that one is a definite download for me.
Netgalley/Edelweiss
- Before I Knew I Love You by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Cozy Nook Bookshop by Jeannie Chen
Purchased/Free
- Everybody's Favorite Guy by Katherine Center
- If We Love Again by Linda Barrett
- A Family Affair by Mary Campisi
Invites
- Ideal Life by Evelyn Skye
- So It Grows by Andie Burke
Read Last Week
My week did not start strong, but it finished with a bang. Brammer did it again with Good Joy, Bad Joy. I know I was supposed to care about Joy stepping outside her "good" image and doing some questionable things, but mostly I was here for the female friendship. Hazel and Joy had been best friends since they were eight, and here they were, 89 years old and Hazel was dying from cancer. Their friendship was one for the ages, and I loved learning about the important moments that shaped them and their relationship through the years. It was very moving.
I also really enjoyed Lucky. I generally like these books, but the characters and their fun romance stood out for me.
Find all my reviews on Goodreads
Books
- Picking Daisies on Sundays by Liana Cincotti -★★★ 1/2
- So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder - ★★★ 1/2
- The Real Ones by J. Rose Black - ★★★★
- Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer - ★★★★★
Audiobooks
- Lucky by Sawyer Bennett - ★★★★ 1/2
Currently Reading
- The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
- Breaking the Ice by Whitney Dineen
To Be Read
- Just Friends by Haley Pham
- The Shippers by Katherine Center
- Before I Knew I Love You by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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