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

 

 

The Sunday Post #256

 

 

 

 

Public Service Announcement

 

It’s that time of year! The time where we sign up for all the reading and blogging challenges. Since I failed spectacularly at last year’s goals, I’m only doing two challenges this year. I set my Goodreads goal at 50 books. I really hope I can read more than that. For blogging, I’m participating in the Discussion Challenge hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts At Midnight. I’ve participated in this challenge every year for approximately six zillion years. I’ve run out of topics to discuss. Do you have any ideas? The topics can be related to books or blogging. Tell me what to talk about! I’m desperate!

 

 

On The Blog Last Week

 

• On Tuesday I shared my favorite books of 2020.
• On Thursday we figured out if my 2020 five-star predictions actually came true.

 

 

 

 

On The Blog This Week

 

• On Tuesday we talk about 2021 middlegrade book releases.
• On Thursday I (hopefully) wrap up December.

 

 

 

 

In My Reading Life

 

Bad news! I gave up on Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg. I’m extremely surprised because it’s a “Me” book. The cover is beautiful. The story is about a commune in a crumbling manor house in the English countryside. That sounds perfect for me! Unfortunately, there’s no plot, the characters are bland, and the writing style is . . . weird. I read 1/3 of the book and was mostly just bored and confused. So, I gave up. I started 2021 by being defeated by a book at midnight.

 

I had much better luck with Finders Keepers by Stephen King. I flew through this one. If you like King’s classic Misery, you need to check this novel out. It’s about bookworms who are so obsessed with a book series that they’re willing to commit robbery and murder to get their hands on the author’s unpublished manuscripts. I like the themes of the novel. King talks about how unnerving it is to see aspects of yourself in evil people. If you share the same obsession with a deranged murderer, does that mean you have the potential to become a murderer, too? Is it okay to love something that causes other people harm? It’s interesting to think about. My only complaint about the book is that it’s part of King’s Bill Hodges series. Bill Hodges is a detective character. I struggle with cops and detectives in fiction because solving crimes doesn’t interest me, especially when I already know who committed the crime. I’m more interested in the criminals and the victims. I was tempted to skim Bill’s chapters.

I haven’t talked about baby Brooklyn’s books in a while. She got a ridiculous number of them for Christmas. The standout book this week was The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. It’s a classic from the 1940s about an imaginary game of hide-and-seek where a baby bunny runs away and transforms himself into different objects. The mother bunny follows him around the world so they can always be together. It’s comforting and sweet. Brooklyn seemed to like it.

Right now, I’m reading Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. I love it so far, even though it’s stressing me out. It’s a dystopia about what happens when California runs out of water. There’s a lot of action and drama and guns. I’m also reading The Inexplicable Logic Of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. I just started it. Nothing much has happened. Well, there's a teenage boy who gets randomly angry at everyone? I guess random anger is happening.

 

In The Rest Of My Life

 

Five things that made me happy last week:

 

1. Happy 2021!
2. Reading all the wrap ups and end-of-year lists on blogs. If you have a “best books” list or a 2020 wrap up, I want to see them. Give me links!
3. Working on my own wrap up and lists. I track a lot of reading statistics. I won’t have my post ready for another week or two, but it’s been interesting to sort through my spreadsheets and try to figure out what happened last year. I already posted my Best Books of 2020.
4. I’ve now done yoga every day for 11 months. I’m still terrible at it. Yesterday I fell over while failing at dancer pose. If I don't hurt myself, I'll make it to a year of daily yoga.
5. I finished watching The Queen’s Gambit. I liked it! After 7 hours of that show, I feel like I should know something about chess, but nope.

 

 

 

 

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Take care of yourselves and be kind to each other. See you around the blogosphere!