It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's a great post to organise yourself. It's an opportunity to visit and comment, and er... add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!
Another week speeds by. Hope you all enjoyed the Easter break and season.
I went to the optician last week for eye testing and new glasses. I have had these ones for over nine years and they were beginning to fall apart. Also prescription was changed a little so looking forward to it. I wear them all the time so no wonder they were rather wobbly!
I read, sewed and gardened... well just a little gardening. It has been so wet here that really I have the perfect excuse not to get out there!!
I have started to keep an account of the quilts I make now on another blog - so that I can know what I have made and how many etc. They were beginning to accumulate and I'd lost count.
If any of you are crafters or have a great eye for colour do take a look at The Splendid Sampler - Rinse and Repeat to suggest to me a colour that will just brighten up the fabric I have chosen.
What I read last week:
Review book, Rachael Johns never disappoints me, great Australian country outback story. Review to follow later.
I sped through this 15hr 45 min audiobook narrated by Isabel Keating. It was a reread and so wonderful on audio. I love doing rereads of books that I have loved and after eight or so years have forgotten enough of it to love it up all over again. This is the series that made me yearn after quilts and quilting.
The Little Breton Bistro is a review book. I didn't request it but the publicist sent it anyway even if I didn't review it. ( I do have a review for it). I loved it actually, it is about a sixty year old woman breaking free of the shackles that bind her. It hooked me right in.
From my recently bought shelf...
A fun and warm small town romance that was enjoyable.
What I am reading at present:
From my TBR shelf, I love Jodi Thomas' books so expecting I will love this one. Just starting.
I'm listening to...
Narrated by Christine Traister. #3 in Luanne Rice's Hubbard Point series. I actually have read the rest of the series but this one missed out somehow, but doesn't really matter that it is out of order.
Up next:
From my recently bought shelf, have been wanting to sample this author for awhile so here goes!
I may also reach this review book
Posts from last week
Any Day Now Robyn Carr
The Night the Lights Went Out Karen White
Quilt Posts
Mug Rug Using Anne of Green Gables fabric
It is always nice to get new glasses. I like books with older characters and will check out the Nina George books. Enjoy your books and audios this week. Have a great one.
ReplyDeleteI got new glasses a few months ago, and I love the change.
ReplyDeleteYour books look tempting...I'm curious about True Blue and Talk of the Town. Have a great week!
Sounds like you were about due for new glasses! I went to the eye doctor for the first time this year (I inherited good eyesight from my dad so I'd never been). The exam was really interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe Little Breton Bistro sounds good. I love the cover of the Jodi Thomas book. I haven't read anything by her yet but I will have to give her books a try sometime.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
My son's glasses only last about two years before he manages to break them or scratch them from beyond repair.
ReplyDeleteI'm back from my trip. It didn't turned out as planned but we had fun.
It's been very wet here too although the last two days have been nice. And yay for new glasses. Glad to hear the Night The Lights Went Out is good. I've seen several positive reviews for it.
ReplyDeleteWill horses looks great. I love cowboys. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you're enjoying them. Oh the audiobook looks promising. I'll check out the series.
Have a great week and Happy reading. :)
I'm impressed you could go 9 years with one pair of glasses! When I wore glasses (well, I mostly wore contacts, but I always had glasses as a backup), my prescription changed almost every year. I had Lasik a few years ago, but I think I might need to have glasses again. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to reread books. I am thinking of rereading some books this year.
ReplyDeleteI read that Luanne Rice book many years ago, I remember enjoying it.
I'm looking forward to reading the new Rachael Johns too - sounds brilliant!
ReplyDeleteIt's miserably cloudy here today - a good day to read I think!
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a good week :) I hope you had a nice Easter!
ReplyDeleteGood week then :)
ReplyDeleteOh well done on getting new glasses! It's always fun to get new ones and I'm glad you'll have the correct prescription again!
ReplyDeleteI hope you are enjoying the wet weather and that it isn't getting too much!
Have a lovely week.
I'll be keeping an eye out for the Breton bistro book
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you Kathryn. Hope you had a lovely long weekend.
ReplyDeleteGreat news about the glasses :-)
I agree Rachael Johns never disappoints. I love her rurals as well as recent branch out to life lit. I'm jealous you have already read Talk of the Town. I'm looking forward to its release.
I will have to check out your review of The Breton Bistro. I won a copy on a Facebook competition but haven't got around to reading it yet.
Have a lovely week, reading, quilting and gardening :-)
Hope you had a nice Easter, Kathryn. I'm adding The Little Breton Bistro to my GR list. Sounds good!
ReplyDeleteThe Little Breton Bistro sounds like a good read. Wow, I can't believe your glasses made it for nine years! It's been a warm but wet week here, too. At least it's making the grass turn green! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteNice, busy week for you.
ReplyDeleteWe are finally getting some warm weather. Yeah!! I transplanted some of my hostas. They are a hardy plant. :)
I started THE BOOK OF SUMMER...it is pretty good.
Love the cover and the title of THE SECRETS OF ROSA LEE.
Have a wonderful week, Kathryn.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
My It's Monday, What Are You Reading
The Little Breton Bistro caught my eye. I saw it last week on another blog and it sounds so good! Enjoy your reading and quilting week.
ReplyDeleteWoot I see one of my suggestions in your basket Kathryn. Great choices and I love all Emilie Richards oldies but goodies!
ReplyDeleteI never read anything by Rachel Johns. Talk of the Town looks good. I'll have to check it out. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lovely week for you! Congratulations on the new quilting blog!
ReplyDeleteA nice variety of reading for you this past week - enjoy your books this week, too!
Sue
Book By Book
The Little Breton Bistro sounds intriguing! It's raining today here too - my plants desperately needed it. Have a lovely week!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter and happy reading! I'm visiting from the Reading with Beth blog.
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You have some good books listed in this post. I'm going to check them out. I would love to see a quilting post. I'm intrigued how the picture ones work.
ReplyDeleteYou have great concentration to listen to an audiobook and quilt. I feel I'd miss so much important facts in the plot if I tried to do that but I know you're an experienced quilter so it's more cake for you than sewing for me :O). Do you have cute teahouses around your neighborhood? And thank you for watching the video. It was interesting to know about this man who lived during the MLK days and who had experienced segregation.
DeleteYour quilts are gorgeous! I bow down to your quilting greatness =)
ReplyDeleteNow I am going to check out the Little Breton Bistro. Your short description make Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman pop into my head, and I unexpectedly loved that book.
Sam @ WLABB
Funny we got our eye doctor appointments done last week too! :) Hope you enjoy your gardening I should get out there too!
ReplyDeleteI won a copy of BJ Daniels Lucky Shot and I have other of hers to read, hope you like it.
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