Hello everyone! This week Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie throwback week! We could choose from any previous topic, and since I am new to participating, there were a lot to choose from. I decided on Books That Feel Like Fall because I really love fall, and could very easily skip the rest of summer.
With that being said, let’s look forward to a future of warm drinks, cozy nights, crisp weather, and jeans and boots and snuggly sweaters!
These two contemporary romances caught my eye because of how different they seem from others. They just look like fun reads for fall, romance that is just more on the spookier side.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date
Hello everyone! I hope that you had a good week! Last Sunday we were waiting for Billy to get home from his camping trip, and he got home later in the evening that Sunday. We were very happy to see him! The rest of the week was spent working, all of us, in our own ways. Billy at his job and then around the house, Wyatt in therapy (he kicked butt on Wednesday!!), and I have been working on Wyatt’s room. He needed a huge upgrade, as he is now 9, which I can’t believe yet here we are. So I have been going through all of his stuff (sometimes with his help, sometimes not…iykyk) to donate or pitch or keep. It’s been a weird week but a good one.
Oh, I just loved this book. At first, I wasn’t sure about it. The main character was a bit of a whiner and the language/tone/voice was so juvenile – then I realized, duh of course it is, because the character himself is young. Yuki is young adult, who after graduation finds himself as a forestry trainee sent off to a rural village in the mountains, far from his home in the city. This story is a coming of age story, and it was really very beautiful and thoughtful. I am looking forward to reading the second book, Kamusari Tales Told at Night.
Reading This Week:
After The Easy Life I needed something just light, so I grabbed Getaway with Murder off of my cozy mystery TBR shelf. I wanted something I could just relax into before I start this Riley Sager book.
We are back to watching the Great British Sewing Bee. By the time we are ready to relax and watch tv these days we are whipped and kind of collapse. We need something easy to watch! Tonight we are going to watch a movie although which one has yet to be determined! So not too much on this front.
Listening:
While what we are watching has tapered off for the summer, we are listening to things much more. We both love to listen to books and podcasts while we do work around the house. I also listen to something when Wyatt takes his morning after meds nap while I stitch on my embroidery that is more just me stitching than real embroidery but I have fun.
Billy is listening to the audiobook Words of Radiance, in the Stormlight series by Brandon Sanderson.
I am listening to a few different things. Sometimes I listen to the cozy mystery To Fetch a Felon, which is a cozy mystery in the Chatty Corgi series. Sometimes I listen to Silent Came the Monster about the 1916 shark attacks along the Jersey shore. And then sometimes I listen to The Night Owl True Ghost Stories Podcast. (for those of you in Texas, he is a Texan covering stories in and around Austin)
And that is it from around here today! I hope you all are doing well!
This weeks prompt is: books with my favorite color on the cover! My favorite color is green. To me, it is a color full of nature, life, yet so calming. The color of leaves and grass and katydids. Emeralds. Moss. Luna moths. Frogs. The patina on old copper. I love all shades of green, from deep forest greens to bright jewel tones to more muted sage and then springlike light greens.
I usually write a little something about the books in these posts, but today is just all about the cover and the color.
So…this post was originally all just cover and color. But Laurie pointed out to me that this made my post inaccessible to her as a screen reader user. So I went through and tried to do alt text. I hope I did it correctly! As the parent of a wheelchair user, I understand how frustrating inaccessibility is.
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 