The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This is my first time doing the Sunday post, but I’ve seen it around and it always seemed fun!
This Week of the Blog
- Black Lives Matter Book Bingo Update
- Lodestar Nominees Mini-reviews of Catfishing on Catnet, Riverland and Dragon Pearl (where I somehow managed to fudge the posting date)
- Book beginnings and Friday 56
New books:
I ordered a few Discworld books because boyfriend expresed an interest in reading them, and I’m doing a very slow reread of the series. We got:
- Guards! Guards!
- Mort
- Moving Pictures
- Equal Rites
Read/Currently reading
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, just started the final part this morning and things are looking grim, it’s a very interesting book with a lot of idea work and a complicated found family
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett, I noticed this one rarely makes it onto people’s favorites list, but I really like the Discworld books that take a specific idea from the modern world and play with it in a fantasy setting
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco reading this for Feminism in Fiction bookclub on fantasy.reddit.com, I’m not very far in because at chapter 7 I decided to restart the audiobook because I’d zoned out on too much of it, having missed a vital piece of info in the prologue. It’s making much more sense now and I’m enjoying it.
I also read Lady Griffith’s Second Chance by Quenby Olson, a historical romance about a middle-aged woman getting a very hot man. It’s a really delightful and fun romance that I read in one sitting.
Other goings-on
I’ve started playing Hades on the PC and I am obssessed. Playing on the easiest possible mode and still doing pretty bad, but I’m having so much fun with it that I don’t mind.
Can’t remember if I mentioned this on the blog before but bf and I have started painting out DnD minis. It’s lots of fun and I’m super happy with how it’s going so far.
I’ve got about 10 books scheduled to arrive next week so you can tell how well my book buying ban is going. So well we’ve ordered more shelves.
Planned for next week
Going to hit the post office Tuesday to see if my book depo order arrived. My town is currently lacking a post-man so I need to go check if they’ve got my package,
On Tuesday I’ll be participating in Top Ten Tuesday – Super Long Titles, some of my favorite indie fantasy books fit there
Depending on how we manage to get them set up I might do Stacking the Shelves as I’m moving most of my books to the new shelves and will want to show those off
I’ll be publishing 1 or 2 posts of mini-reviews, novellas and the 4 books I read on holiday this year
Bookclubs over on r/fantasy:
I’m a mod over at reddit fantasy, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to mention what books we’re reading this month in case I can tempt any of you to join in. I’ve already read and loved the HEA book, currently reading the FIF one and will be starting the Mod club one soon.
- Goodreads Book of the Month Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- FIF Book Club The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
- HEA Book Club Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans
- Resident Authors Book Club The Combat Codes by Alexander Darwin
- Mod Book Club Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Oh I almost forgot! I wordpressed a lot
- broke then fixed all my categories
- manually updated categories and tags on all my posts
- fixed something on the front page that had been bugging me all year
- faffed around with sidebar widgets
So yeah, dianthaa.com, now with marginal improvements! If you’re into that and SFF content, maybe give me a follow
I feel like i learn so much about my blogging friends when they do a Sunday Post or other wrap up, lol. I’m sad to hear your don’t have anyone delivering your mail, you must live in a very small town😁
That’s so true, I love wrap-ups cause I can catch up, and it’s a great way to find other bloggers who are into the same things as me. Also I love when people mention other hobbies or info I might not know about.
I think the problem is the town used to be small but it exploded, but they still only want to pay one person to deliver all the mail and no one is up for that much work.
Our mail was coming super late for a few weeks (like 8 at night). It seems to be back on track now. And, hey, there are never too many books. Just never enough shelves. 🙂 Have a great week!
Haha yes! I’m so excited about the new shelves coming in. I’m glad your mail got sorted, hoping something happens to fix mine too. For the sake of the books
Welcome to the Sunday Post, I am glad you and the boyfriend are reading together! The gaming sounds like fun, and yay for playing with WordPress and code!
Thank you! It’s really fun seeing him gigle when he reads, especially as he’s not at all used to this style
I’ve made life long friends from this Post. I love catching up with people.
I am currently obsessed with playing the sims.
I hope you have a great week! Happy Reading! xx
Thank you, I hope you have a great week too! I can’t wait to get back to my game after the work day
I always play games on the easiest setting! Otherwise its just stressful!
Equal Rites is one of my favorite books of all time! Also, can I just say how cool your minis look? Excellent painting hand!
Thank you! I was kinda surprised how not-bad they turned out, always imagined I’d be bad at this sort of thing. Can’t know until you try I guess.
Yes! Me too, I sometimes start easy and then increase it if it starts getting too easy, but that doesn’t seem to be happening yet with Hades, in fact if it had an even easier setting, I would take it
Welcome to the Sunday post! It is a great way to get to know others and people do as much or as little as they prefer. I own Gideon the Ninth but have yet to read it.
Anne – Books of My Heart
I gotta admit I wasn’t the biggest fan of Gideon, mostly because I listened to the audiobook and I found it so confusing keeping track of characters. But most people love it.
Welcome to The Sunday Post! I’ve been hit or miss in posting to it lately but I’m usually a regular. It’s a good one and you get to meet a lot of bloggers. What I particularly love is that it doesn’t matter what genres you like to read, there’s something for everyone and everyone is inclusive. 🙂
Thank you! Yeah, reading everyone’s posts has been a lot of fun, and I keep meaning to step outside my genre now and then, seems like a good way to see what other books are popular.
I did a little fussing around with my WordPress sites this week, too, primarily because I changed up some headers and themes, which led to more obsessing. LOL.
Enjoy your week and your books, and thanks for visiting my blog.
It feels like every little change I do gives me 5 more ideas for things that need fixing
Thank you for dropping by too!
Welcome to the Sunday Post! One of my old classmates has been painting miniatures lately. She shared pictures and how many hours one dragon took to paint and I decided I do not have the patience for that kind of undertaking!
I’ve read a few Discworld books and liked them but I get stressed out about the reading order. It seems like everyone has a different list for the order you should read them in. I kind of give up in defeat.
Enjoy your week!
The main thing about Discworld reading order, is that it mostly doesn’t matter. Most of the books work as stand-alones, I think only 2 Moist Von Lipwick ones are really sequels. The rest is just nerds nerding on the internet. I read them in publication order originally and going semi by sub-series now for my reread, which mostly just means I’m skipping the Unseen Academy ones for a while.
We’ve got a couple of dragons too, but we’re putting those off until we get better at this.
Enjoy your week too!
Happy to meet you! You are always welcome to add your link at Sunday Salon, too.
I was late to the game with Terry Pratchett, and I still haven’t read very many of his books. He always makes me laugh, and I think he’d be a great author to read during this pandemic.
I might need to take a look at the Black Lives Matter Book Bingo, too.
Have a great week!
Happy to meet you too! I’ll join The Sunday Salon next time for sure!
Pratchett really is a lot of fun during this pandemic, his writting is so warm and human.
I’m having so much fun with the Book Bingo, I really recommend it!
You have a great week too!
Oh, how lovely you are tucking into the Discworld series – I’ve so many happy, happy memories reading these alongside Himself. And you’re right. I was once reading Moving Pictures in a laundrette while on holiday and cackling like a banshee. It’s hilarious…
I love your painting! Himself and I used to collect, paint and play Warhammer – the classic game – with the children. I had Elves, Himself played an Orc and Goblin army, my daughter had Dwarves and some Imperial, and my son had a Scaven army… They are still up in the loft, somewhere…
Haha! I love that image!
Thank you! We normally play Dungeons and Dragons with some friends, but haven’t been playing now, we always said we’d never have the patience to paint, but turns out we love it, just do an hour or so every few days.
It is so much fun… Not so much these days, as my eyesight isn’t that great, sadly.