I'm reading...I've had a great reading week over the last week, finishing The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte which I gave a grading of 5/5 (review here) and also The Wreck by Meg Keneally which I graded as 4.5/5. My review for The Wreck will be up later in the week and my review for the third book I finished this week, Paris Time Capsule, will be up in couple of weeks.
I somehow seem to have a gap in my reading schedule which means I can take the opportunity to actually read whatever I want. Today I therefore started reading Serenity's Song by Cathryn Hein which is part of the Outback Brides Return to Wirralong series. This is 100% a comfort read for me and so far I am enjoying it.
I am also contemplating reading The Turning of the Screw by Henry James because it is the starting point of the October Six Degrees of Separation. Originally I had no intention of reading it, but I had a look and realised that it is actually a short story, I think that I could definitely fit that in!
Over the weekend I also watched a book talk featuring the authors from The Deadly Hours (which I reviewed last week). One of the silver linings of COVID is that there are so many online events that are accessible that never would have been back in "normal days". One of those authors is Susanna Kearsley who I would love to meet for real one day, but I do think that it probably unlikely.
I'm watching
This week was more a week of finishing things rather than watching anything new.
We finished watching Great Canadian Baking Show which we enjoyed and also Singapore Sling, which was... interesting. Singapore Sling was about life in Singapore on the eve of the Japanese invasion during. That aspect was interesting but there were moments that just descended into buffoonery. The other thing was that the episodes just ended. It didn't really feel like the end a few times, including in the final episode. I was expecting them to come back after the ad break.
We are also enjoying watching the Tour de France,mainly for the scenery. It's an easy option when it's heading towards bedtime and we don't want to start a new show for the evening.
Life
This weekend we were supposed to go to Uluru for the weekend. We booked the trip back in February and we were hopeful that things might have settled down a bit so we could still go, but it wasn't to be. Not all was lost though. We needed to create a new car parking space at home so we have been working on clearing out a garden bed for the last few weeks, including chopping down trees, What we learnt early on during our projects is that our garden is full of very big rocks, It just so happens that my street name kind of rhymes with Uluru! I therefore bring you the big rock that we saw this weekend!
I also made the switch to the new Blogger this weekend. I have been resisting it, but for the most part I think that it's okay. In the end of got sick of having to swap it back to the legacy version. I haven't had too many issues with images, and labels are okay now too. Really, the only thing I am not 100% on is that I have a lot of posts in draft, and I can't tell what the scheduled date is just looking in the list. Instead it shows you the date that you saved it which isn't ideal but it is a minor thing!
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