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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 #268

 

 

 

 

On The Blog Last Week

 

• On Tuesday I designed book covers and lived out my artist dreams. The results were horrifying.
• On Saturday there was a book haul.

 

 

 

 

On The Blog This Week

 

• Um . . . I accidentally deleted this week’s blog post. That’s what happens when I’m tired and have too many unfinished drafts of posts sitting around. Oops. Have you ever accidentally deleted something important? Please make me feel better about my stupidity.

 

 

 

 

In My Reading Life

 

I finally finished Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King! Even though Stephen King books are unnecessarily massive, I usually finish them quickly. That was not the case with this one. It’s 702 pages and took me two weeks to read because the pacing is soooo slooooow. The book is about a plague where women’s bodies spin cocoons while they sleep. If someone removes the cocoon, the woman goes on a murder spree. The men are left alone in the world, wondering what to do with all these cocooned women. The book starts off great. The premise is attention-grabbing, and there’s a ton of suspense as the pandemic spreads and people struggle to stay awake. Toward the middle, I got bored. The book has too many characters and not enough world building. The point-of-view switches disrupt the action. Also, if half the world’s population spun itself into cocoons over the course of a few days, life would change drastically for the un-cocooned people. Instead of showing the changes, the authors give the reader a somewhat heavy-handed message about sexism. I would rather see the changes and work out the message for myself. I badly wanted more world building!

This isn’t my favorite Stephen King book, but it’s another one I can check off my list. Someday, I’ll get through all his work.

Right now, I’m reading At The Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino. It’s based on the true story of Hitler’s cooks and food tasters. Not much has happened so far, but I’m interested to see where it’s going.

 

 

In The Rest Of My Life

 

Five things that made me happy last week:

 

1. Pizza!
2. Decorating Easter eggs with baby Brooklyn. I think more stickers ended up on me than on the eggs.
3. Easter candy. I hope it lasts long enough for the bunny to put it into the eggs. We might need more candy . . .
4. I love my new smartwatch! It keeps track of my half-marathon training plan. I don’t have to memorize things or dig out my phone while I'm running to see how slow I’m moving. Running is easier when the important stuff is on my wrist.
5. I somehow fell down a YouTube rabbit hole and ended up learning about scam baiting. You know those emails you get from Nigerian princes or fake computer companies? Most people just delete the emails and forget about them. Scam baiters call the number on the email and mess with the scammers while livestreaming their conversation on Twitch or YouTube. It’s amusing. This is the most recent video I watched. The scam baiter gets into the scammer’s computer and steals the files he keeps about his victims. The baiter calls the victims at the end of the video and tells them they’ve been scammed.

 

 

 

 

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