This week...

 I'm reading

I mentioned in my post last week that I was starting to read Pictures of You by Emma Grey! I ended up reading it in one sitting. It was that good and I think I now have a bit of a book hangover. I have picked up a few things but nothing has really caught my attention, even authors I have tried and enjoyed before. Some of them I have to read, so I will just need to pick them up again.

One of the books I picked up is the upcoming book by Alli Parker, Until the Red Leaves Fall. I am struggling with this one a bit, not because of the book itself, but because the publisher doesn't allow you to send to Kindle on Netgalley. I am therefore trying to read it on my phone or my laptop, but the PDF format is a bit odd and you have to resize the page every time you changes pages as it doesn't remember the setting! It's very frustrating and doesn't make it a great reading experience. I will, however, persist with it as I really want to read the book. 

I did go to a couple of author events this week. The first was with Vanessa McCausland and Ali Lowe and it was in a city called Ballarat which is normally about an hour away from me. However, I had a meeting on the other side of the city before it, so I had to drive 90 minutes to get to the meeting which lasted an hour, then drive 2 and a half hours to get to the author event. Needless to say I was a bit tired, so luckily my husband came and met me and drove home. The event itself was a lot of fun. 

I have loved both of Vanessa McCausland's books that I have read, and they are both 5 star reads for me, so this was a great chance for me to get her latest book, The Last Illusion of Paige White, signed. I look forward to reading it. Ali Lowe is a new to me author, but her books sound like a lot of fun!

The other author event I went to was for author Amanda Hampson who came to my local library to talk about her latest book, The Deadly Dispute, which is set in the 1960s and features a group of tea ladies.

It was also my read on a theme book club meeting this weekend. The theme was Spy and the group read a lot of great sounding books. I wasn't the only one this time who read more than one book. Pictured are just some of the books that people read. I was interested to see the Nelson DeMille book as I went through a real phase of reading his books back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and I do remember the premise of The Charm School as well. I actually have quite a few of his books on my shelves as I never quite could let them go,. Having said that, I am not sure how well they would hold up age wise!

The theme for the next meeting is 1960s! Lucky for me, as I now have the first of the Tea Ladies series by Amanda Hampson out from the library, so I already know what I am going to read.

I'm watching

This week I discovered the Dish Podcast, which you can also watch on Youtube! I watched about 6 episodes in one day, and I will be watching more. Luckily, I am late to the party so there is a big backlist of episodes for me to watch. Each show is about 30 minutes or so, and features celebrity guests who come in and talk about food and what they are doing. It's so much fun! Here's one of the episodes

We also watched the last couple of episodes from Rogue Soldiers. The show ended just as the D Day landings were about to start. Thankfully season 3 is already announced and will cover the landings. We will be waiting for it in anticipation


Life


This week was our first opportunity to go and watch my son play basketball for his new team. He is now playing in the NBL1, which is the second highest level of basketball in the country. It's a bit weird cheering for another team after cheering for his old one for more than a decade, but it's a great career step for him, and he looked like he definitely belonged at that level.

Posts from the last week


Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Autumny Covers

Blog Tour: Safe Harbour in Pelican Crossing by Maggie Christensen
What We Ate on Holidays - Japan and Korea - The Savoury Edition

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - March statistics


I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz