I'm reading
This week my reading has been all about upcoming review books.
I read Jessica Redland's Hopes and Dreams at the Chocolate Pot Café which I reviewed here.
This coming week I have three reviews due. I powered through Maggie Christensen's Something in the Air in Pelican Crossing. I always love Maggie Christensen's books and this was another engrossing read.
I also started reading The Islander's Daughter by Patricia Wilson. This is a dual timeline WWII novel which is partly set in Greece. I haven't read this author before. My review will be up for this in a couple of days. I need to finish this one was I have one more book due for review by the end of the week
We went away for the weekend and we started listening to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir while we were driving (for reasons that will become obvious later in this post!
I read 14 books in March which kind of surprises me as I didn't feel like I was getting a lot of reading done and work has been pretty challenging. I didn't give any books 5/5 this month, although there were 5 books that I gave 4.5/5 to. They were
Books let our imaginations travel where our feet cannot - Nora Nguyen
Europe
Russia/Germany - The Rebel Romanov:Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
Asia
Japan - We'll Prescribe You a Cat
I'm watching
We went to the movies on Friday and saw Project Hail Mary which we really enjoyed. I did spend half the movie trying to remember what other Ryan's name was. No idea why my mind fixated on that. The Martian is one of those movies for me where I will put it on whenever I come across it on the TV schedule. I suspect Project Hail Mary might too!
Life
We decided to do a quick getaway for the Easter long weekend so we visited an island which is a couple of hours away from us called Phillip Island. It is most famous for two things. The motorcycle grand prix was held here for many years and each night at dusk a colony of penguins waddles up out of the sea. We didn't see either of those but we did enjoy our time on the island visiting the Nobbies (where we saw this fellow as well as lots of big geese and more), the local market, going the Vietnam Veterans Museum and more.
Posts from the last week
Top Ten Tuesday: Buzz-words!
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: April links
Blog Tour: Love Blooms at the Cornish Cottage by Kim Nash
Blog Tour: Hopes and Dreams at the Chocolate Pot Café by Jessica Redland
Weekend Cooking: In My Kitchen: March
Six Degrees of Separation: The Correspondent to Letters from Skye
I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date, Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz and the Good Book and a Cup of Tea link up hosted at Boondock Ramblings
We have been thinking about going to see Project Hail Mary. I'm pretty sure we would enjoy it more if we had listened to the book before seeing the movie. Maybe we will do that, too.
ReplyDeleteFourteen books read in March? Yes, that's a good month!
I hope you enjoyed your visit to Missouri in your reading. I grew up just south of Hannibal, Mark Twain's boyhood home, so Huck and Jim/James passed my home town on their way south.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, did you like The Correspondent? It was a surprising hit for me last year, perhaps in part because I knew nothing about it and went in with low expectations.
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