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Welcome to my weekly update for May 2, 2021!
As you read this, my husband and I should be spending the weekend with his parents. We’ve all been vaccinated and they’re only a two-hour drive away. It felt safe to us and the CDC says it’s okay too. We’ve had lunch with them a couple of times since we arrived in Florida but this will be our first overnight visit since Christmas 2019. We’ll be celebrating an early Mother’s Day while we’re there.
The moonset from Siesta Key was spectacular on Tuesday morning.
Posted:
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori–4 Stars
Welcome to the Jungle (Dresden Files #0.5) by Jim Butcher, illustrated by Ardian Syaf–3.5 Stars
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan, read by Sneha Mathan
Six Degrees of Separation from Beezus and Ramona
Read:
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan, read by Sneha Mathan
Welcome to the Jungle (Dresden Files #0.5) by Jim Butcher, illustrated by Ardian Syaf
The Pretenders (Cemetery Girl Trilogy #1) by Charlaine Harris and Christopher Golden, illustrated by Don Kramer
Currently Reading:
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, read by Charlotte Parry
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Up Next:
I don’t even know. I’ve still struggled with my concentration this week. We’ll see where the mood takes me.
What did your week look like?
Hosts
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
35 Comments
So happy for you that you’re vaccinated and able to visit family! I just got my second shot, so we’re looking forward to a family visit in about two weeks 😀
How wonderful that you were able to spend time with your husband’s parents. My brother and sister-in-law came up from San Diego to celebrate my mom’s 88th and Mother’s Day and it was the first time they’d stayed over since Dec. 2019, so I know how you must’ve felt. Isn’t it wonderful to be vaccinated?!
Wow. What an amazing photo of that moonset! That’s one to frame & hang!
I haven’t been able to concentrate much on reading, either. We got home from our week-long trip and had to prepare for our houseguests. The next two plus weeks will be very busy with various appointments and prep before we head out on our road trip on June 1st. I’ll be happy if I finish two books in May!
I’m glad your brother was able to visit you and your mom! It is exciting to feel life approaching something like normal again.
My mom is coming for a visit in two weeks, when we are all vaccinated. I listened to Braiding Sweetgrass and found it inspiring.
That’s a beautiful shot! Enjoy your visit. 🙂
Thanks! Pictures of the moon are never very satisfactory. It’s always so much bigger in person. But that picture at least caught the feel of the moment, I think.
Beautiful photo. Enjoy your family!
Thank you!
My friend was telling me about Convenience Store Woman. She thought I might need to “work up to it” by reading other Japanese literature first! I’m tempted to try it now…just because!
I haven’t had great luck with Japanese Literature (not that I’ve read a lot), but this one was much more accessible to me than other books I’ve read!
I hope you have a great visit. You are reading/have read an interesting variety of books. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
Thank you!
Enjoy your family visit! Isn’t it great when we can do these kinds of things.
Your books look good, and I’ve been eyeing Convenience Store Woman.
Here are my WEEKLY UPDATES
It is so nice to start getting out and seeing loved ones again!
It feels weird to be back in the world again but of course I’m thankful! Siesta Key looks beautiful – that’s a bucket list trip for me.
It does feel weird so I feel like I have to justify it! 😀 Siesta Key is gorgeous. I’m usually just there for a walk in the morning but once the sun gets high enough to turn the water blue, it’s breath-taking.
I hope you are enjoying your weekend with family.
Wishing you a great reading week
Thank you!
Gorgeous photo. Nice to be able to finally have an overnight visit. When we can’t have something and then it returns we really appreciate it. Hope your concentration improves, like Anne above I find when I am tired etc the audiobook really helps.
Thanks! Audiobooks have kept me going the past few weeks.
I often find myself having trouble concentrating on my books. I think that means, but isn’t necessarily so, that I don’t particularly like the book. Audiobooks help me. Listening forces my attention or I have to back track which isn’t that easy. My Sunday Salon post
Audiobooks are the only books that really seem to be working for me at the moment. I’ve had a couple of books back-to-back that I either didn’t care for that much or that require more focus than I have. They’ve turned reading into a bit of a slog for me.
That is one of the most beautiful beach photos I’ve ever seen, it would make a beautiful print for a wall!
Enjoy your time with your family!
Oh, wow, thank you!
I hope you have a wonderful time visiting family! I’m looking forward to a time when we can do such things without almost having to justify it to ourselves or feeling like we have to justify it to other people (or qualify things with statements like “socially distanced and with masks”). 🙂
The mother’s day statement threw me off then I realised that it’s a different date in the UK to most other places… (Mother’s day here was in March). Have a lovely early celebration.
Take care.
I always feel like I have to justify anything I do outside the house. I just don’t want anyone to think I’m being irresponsible. Someone probably does anyway but we’re all just doing the best we can, right? I will definitely be glad when we don’t feel like we have to explain our excursions.
Being vaccinated is such a great feeling. Being able to see family and friends again. Sounds like a great time this week. I hope you enjoy Braiding Sweetgrass.
Love your pic too! I hope you have a wonderful week.
What a fantastic picture of the moon over the sea – thank you for sharing it:). And what a momentous milestone – actually visiting your in-laws and staying over! I hope you have the loveliest time! I haven’t actually been in a room with my mother for over a year and in the time I’ve only seen her through glass on two occasions… We still can’t go visiting indoors, yet. And quite right, too. We’ve been the worst hit country in Europe by quite a margin, so I’ve no quarrel with the Government taking the easing of restrictions very, very carefully. Have a wonderful week:).
I listed to Bunce’s PREMEDITATED MYRTLE a couple weeks ago and loved it. I haven’t read anything else by her, but A CURSE DARK AS GOLD is one I’ve had my eye on for some time now. I really need to just read it already! I hope you enjoy it.
Susan
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great pic! Glad you got to see your in laws!
Have a wonderful weekend visit, it is so nice to get some normalcy back. The moonset from Siesta Key looks amazing!
Enjoy every moment you can spend with your husband’s parents. My mom and my husband’s mom have been gone for many years now. I love to remember what a dynamo my mom was and what a loving person my mother-in-law was.
Look at that moonset. Beautiful.
I’ve finally culled down my titles so that I am not reading ten or twelve at once! My concentration has been odd, too.
Beautiful photo.
I had a great reading week, liking all 4 of the books I read. I realize that once my daughter is home at the end of the month, I will read much less.
Oh love that moon! And that’s awesome that you guys get to visit the in- laws. Hope you have an amazing trip.
Those 6 Degrees posts are always fun! 🙂