So Sundays In Bed With… is a meme hosted by Midnight Book Girl. It’s an opportunity to share what book is by your bed (or by your current resting space) at the moment.

Happy Sunday! I am currently writing to you from, well, my bed. I have been trapped here for over a week with a back injury that in true me fashion I have no idea how I got. Thankfully, I am on the mend and should be up and about this week. You know, if the doctor clears me.

As for what’s by my bed, well the ADHD is strong with me right now so there are several things.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir was one of my favorite books when it came out in 2021 and I’m happy to read it again. It’s my library’s book club pick for the month, and I hope everyone loves it as much as I did!

Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams is a delightful little rom-com. The author is using Audrey Hepburn movies to inspire this series and this one is loosely based on Funny Face. I really liked When in Rome and am enjoying this one too!

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley is a small-town romance where both the protagonists are over 40! And it involves MMORPGs! I had to read this. It deals with some harder topics, like elderly parents, the aftermath of divorces, and empty nest syndrome. But it seems to handle them in real and respectful ways. I’m very much enjoying this. This book is available on KU if you’re interested!

I hope you enjoy your Sunday!!!

So Sundays In Bed With… is a meme hosted by Midnight Book Girl. It’s an opportunity to share what book is by your bed (or by your current resting space) at the moment.

Look at me! Three blog posts in a week! I’m on a roll. To be honest, I am trying to make more of an effort to post more often, but it will not be every day. Life, it gets in the way. But on to the post!

I am reading two books right now.

I’m pretty much where I left off when I posted about this title on Wednesday. I ended up needing to order a physical copy because I have to have one for book club. I’m going to, hopefully, finish it today.

The description:

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.

But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.

I picked this up last night before I realized that I still have to finish the book club book. I’m going to try and finish it tomorrow. Today and tomorrow are my days off work so I have plenty of time to get into it! I’m not very far into it, so I can’t say wether or not I like it yet, but I haven’t quit it, so that’s a plus.

The description:

Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.

But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into—love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?—with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.

If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible. Even though there are things we can only find when we aren’t looking. And there are people who show up when we least expect them. And there are always, always other ways of seeing.

Have a good Sunday!

So Sundays In Bed With… is a meme hosted by Midnight Book Girl. It’s an opportunity to share what book is by your bed (or by your current resting space) at the moment.

Well hello, hoppy people! I hope your Easter/Passover/Ramadan is going well! My life has been pure chaos lately, between work, construction on a house project, and a family visit, I haven’t had much time to relax. So I took this weekend off.

Not of work though, I still did that.

Today the hubs and I went and saw the Mario Movie, and it was okay. Loved Bowser. We also played Point Salad, a card/board game and that was fun. I might have backed its sequel, Point City, on Kickstarter today as a result. Maybe.

But let us get into the book I’m currently reading, as I am only a few chapters into it. The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez.

I follow the author on TikTok and I must say, she is quite funny. Her dogs are great. Did I own this a year ago? Yes. Did TikTok influence me. Also yes. So did my friend. I hope I end up liking her. I might have purchased all her books used or off book outlet.

I have a problem.

The synopsis is as follows:

Kristen Peterson doesn’t do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don’t get her. She’s also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children.

Planning her best friend’s wedding is bittersweet for Kristen — especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He’s funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he’d be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it’s harder and harder to keep him at arm’s length.

Have a egg-cellent day!

So Sundays In Bed With… is a meme hosted by Midnight Book Girl. It’s an opportunity to share what book is by your bed (or by your current resting space) at the moment.

Well hello! How has it been a month? I apologize for my absence. I got distracted by shiny things…and the flu. Ten out of ten, do not recommend. But I have been reading! And I am currently reading, among other things, Half A Soul by Olivia Atwater.

This fantasy romance set in Regency London is highly enjoyable. I’m about halfway through it, well, this and three other books, and I am so happy with it! It’s my book club’s pick for the month and it is what is now being termed “Cozy Fantasy”, which is low stakes fantasy that makes you feel happy.

It’s about a woman who had half of her soul stolen by a Fae when she was a child and so she grows up not feeling emotions the same way other people do. This condition makes her more likely to cause an accidental scandal. Of course, this also leads her to meet London society’s most unlikeable man, the Lord Sorcier.

What book are you reading now?