The Sunday Post #214

The Sunday Post is a chance to recap the past week, talk about next week, tell you what I’m reading, and share news. I’m linking up with The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Readerbuzz, and Book Date. 

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The Sunday Post #214

On The Blog Last Week

• On Wednesday I showed you some March book releases I’m excited about.
• On Saturday there was a book haul.

On The Blog This Week

• On Monday I wrap up February. (Hopefully. I haven’t written this post yet.)
• On Wednesday I talk about more upcoming March book releases.

In My Reading Life

I finished a novel! It was Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend. Can I please have the third book in this series now? I don’t want to wait until September or whenever it comes out. I need this series for my happiness! Wundersmith is about Morrigan Crow, a young girl with super-powerful magical abilities. The people around her can’t decide if they should teach her about her powers so she can control her magic, or if they should not teach her about her powers so she never learns how to hurt people with magic. It’s an interesting conundrum.  

Wundersmith answered a few of the questions I had after finishing Nevermoor. I think I like Nevermoor better? The plot of Wundersmith is meandering, as if it’s setting up stuff that will happen later in the series. Still, I really liked it! It's fun. I desperately want to know what happens next.

A book I didn’t like was Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I’ve DNFed it for now. I enjoyed the other Adichie books I’ve read. This one just isn’t holding my attention. It’s so slow that I’ve lost interest in the characters. I don’t know if I’ll pick it up again.

Right now, I’m reading Son by Lois Lowry. It’s a dystopia about a teenage mother who runs away from her community after her baby is kidnapped. This novel has been on my TBR shelf for years. I’m glad I’m finally reading it. So far, it’s okay.

I guess I should also update you on what I’m reading with baby Brooklyn (because I’m counting baby books toward my Goodreads goal this year. Don’t judge me.)

We read I Don’t Want to Go to Bed by Julie Sykes. It’s about a tiger who learns that staying up all night is not as awesome as it appears. I like that the book shows nocturnal/diurnal animals. There are a lot of words on each page, so Brooklyn squirmed through the end of story. One-year-olds do not have very long attention spans. She’ll probably like this book better when she’s older.

We read Baby Signs by Joy Allen. This book teaches sign language and has illustrations of babies doing signs. I like this one because I learned stuff! I wish the illustrations were more helpful, especially because Brooklyn wasn’t looking at the book. She was watching me make the signs. I tried to get her to do the signs, but nope.

Our greatest reading success was Peek-A Who? by Nina Laden. We both enjoyed this one because it’s interactive. It’s a rhyming book with holes in the pages. You look through the holes and try to guess what’s hiding. It’s short and clever.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. Today is the last day of my 30-day yoga challenge! I’m still terrible at yoga. I’m going to try it for another 3o days. So . . . 30-day yoga challenge, part 2!
2. I got a new app. It’s called Lose It, and it tracks calories and exercise. Creating my account was awful because the app kept crashing, but I haven’t had any problems since then. It’s been helping me eat less junk. I’m currently using the free version. I’ll upgrade if it actually helps me eat like an adult instead of like a ravenous feral kindergartner.
3. New books!
4. Is anyone watching Miracle Workers: Dark Ages? It’s the stupidest show ever, but I look forward to it every week. The second season is way better than the first. Since it’s an anthology, you can skip the first season and go right to this one!
5. Crispy got another Pondathon badge. We’re almost at the end of the readathon. Then you’ll never have to see this fish again.

I’m occasionally entertaining

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