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Welcome to my weekly update for December 29, 2024!
I hope everyone who celebrates had a wonderful holiday week! My husband had to work too close to the holiday for us to fly out to visit any family so we had a nice, quiet day at home in our RV. He made a crème brûlée French toast casserole for breakfast that was delicious!
Space is always at a premium in our RV so I didn’t get many bookish things but I did receive The Book Lover’s Journal: My Personal Reading Record and a copy of the latest Bookmarks magazine.
Posted:
The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily (Dash & Lily #2) by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, read by Tara Sands and Ryan Gesell: Book Review–3 Stars
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras: Book Review–4.5 Stars
Read:
This list is not as impressive as it looks since all of them except Hogfather are picture books, graphic novels, or otherwise heavy on illustrations and light on text. All links go to my reviews on GoodReads.
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, illustrated by Wendy Xu–3.5 Stars
Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem! by Stacey McAnulty, illustrated by Stevie Lewis–4 Stars
Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist #1) by Jim Benton–4 Stars
Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, illustrated by Charlene Chua–4 Stars
Hogfather (Discworld #20) by Terry Pratchett–4 Stars
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World by Mike Higgins, illustrated by Manuel Bortoletti–4 Stars
Currently Reading:
Lumberjanes Volume 4: Out of Time by N.D. Stevenson and Shannon Watters, illustrated by Brooklyn Allen
Noir (Noir Chronicles #1) by Christopher Moore, read by Johnny Heller
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin
Up Next:
I’ll be posting my top ten books of 2024 on Tuesday and I have reviews for The Dutch House by Ann Patchett and Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery scheduled on Thursday and Friday. I may post an in-depth 2024 reading recap if I have time.
On the reading front, I have a couple of graphic novel memoirs by John Lewis to read and I need to choose an audiobook for myself (My husband and I are listening to Noir together on road trips).
What did your week look like?
Hosts:
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sun-day Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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Nice journal. Even though some of your books are smaller in page count, you still read them. Sometimes hard to do this time of year. Hope you enjoy your reading week. Wishing you a wonderful 2025!
https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-dec-30.html
Thank you!
That reading journal looks very nice. Must look it up. Your Christmas sounds lovely and quiet, hope your New Year is the same! Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you as well!
Your quiet Christmas celebration sounds nice! We stayed home and hosted small family gatherings for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so we didn’t have to travel until the day after Christmas. It was a lot of cooking and cleaning, but there was also time to spend laughing and chatting with family we don’t get to see that often.
I haven’t read any of your books except The Dutch House and the first Dash & Lily.
I hadn’t heard of Bookmark before, either!
Small family gatherings sound lovely for Christmas. I’m surprised how many people haven’t heard of Bookmarks! My husband has bought a copy for every Christmas for quite a while. I think he gets it at Barnes & Noble.
I’m a big Anne Patchett fan, and liked The Dutch House, so I hope you are enjoying it. I agree with all the comments about creme brulee French Toast casserole. What a great idea!
Have a great New Year…mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I listened to The Dutch House a couple of years and just realized recently that I never posted the review here. I really liked it!
A crème brûlée French toast casserole? Oh my!
I fully intended to read Hogfather this December, but I had to return it before I really got started. Sigh. Next year, perhaps.
It’s amazing how quickly the holiday season came and went this year. The late Thanksgiving really threw my internal clock off.
I really enjoy Christopher Moore’s books. I hope you enjoy Noir. We visited my family in North Georgia for Christmas. We stayed in Blairsville, GA which is about 2 hours South of Asheville. We had amazing weather, sunny and in the mid fifties.
My family in Asheville was happy to have a warm Christmas too!
Yum! A crème brûlée French toast casserole sounds heavenly! Good for you guys to use your rv oven. I think we’ve only used ours once! It’s a perfect spot to store my pots, though. 🙂 Looking forward to your year-end wrap up!
I hear a lot of people use their RV oven as cookware storage 🙂 We do use the regular oven but our microwave is also a convection oven. It’s not high quality but we’ve been using it more lately since it heats more evenly.
I used to love Bookmarks magazine. My subscription must have lapsed during our recent moves and I thought they’d stopped publishing it. I’ll look for the latest issue next time I’m at B&N… so glad to know it’s still around! A crème brûlée French toast casserole sounds like a wonderful treat. Will look forward to your best books of the year post.
It’s difficult to keep up with subscriptions during moves.
Yum. I made cinnamon and jam muffins for Christmas breakfast which were tasty but Crème Brûlée French Toast sounds even better!
Have a good week of reading, and a happy new year
Those muffins sound delicious too! It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a good muffin.
Crème brûlée French toast casserole sounds like something I need to eat. I hope you have a great week!
I don’t know if my waistline agrees that I needed crème brulee French toast but my taste buds certainly did 🙂
Oh, I love this time of year when we all start posting our favorite books of the year! I always get good ideas from all our fellow bloggers. I have never heard of Bookmarks magazine, I’ll have to go check it out.
Thank you for reminding me of the map book, I need to get a copy as I love geography
I do love a good book of maps. My TBR explodes at this time of year!
Space is why I primarily read and listen in digital formats. I’d love to hear more about RV life if you ever included some info on that or how you chose it and what kind of RV and equipment you use/have. Happy Rdading!
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I’ve had one or two other people ask about RV life in the past. I’ll try to get myself together and post about it someday soon.
A crème brûlée French toast casserole sounds amazing! Lovely gifts. I have no heard of the magazine. I’m going to look into it.
Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem! seems like it would be fun to read WTH the grandkids.
Pluto would definitely be a fun book to read with kids! I could practically hear Pluto’s voice and see a cartoon playing in my head as I read.
Mooncakes looks so cute. A woman in the Polar Night sounds interesting.
Have a happy holiday week.
Harvee https://bookdilettante.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-year-reading-books-with-fascinating.html
Sneak peek: A Woman in the Polar Night made it onto my top ten books of the year!
I loved WILD MINDS FOR CURIOUS MINDS. I laughed my way through all the maps and walked around with the book showing every body the different maps.
I definitely tell my husband and text my sister more about these map books than they would probably like 🙂