Steve has a gun class to help with tomorrow afternoon. I'm not doing anything both days other than take care of the boys, read, binge, and work on jewelry.
And nap. Surprised you, right.
That's about it.
Have a good weekend
PK the Bookeemonster
Thursday
Well, I worked on some of my grab bag jewelry and I think I've got some of the last pieces figured out.
I love the feeling when inspiration and creativity strike.
Lots of pendants but, truly, other than earrings what you can you do with hoops? I had a lot of them.
Again, according to the guidelines, I don't have to use every little piece I received but I'm just challenging myself to do so.
Don't know if I'll work on it again tonight. I may just read.
Oh, almost forgot. Happy binging news. Lucy Lawless's online series, Murder is My Life that I enjoyed so much is getting a second season. I was so bummed that there was only one available when I watched it, what, last year. But I randomly looked it up yesterday and saw 10 episodes of season two will premiere at the end of August.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Wednesday
Steve's got the gun range tonight. I'll be hanging with the boys.
In general, I find it hard to do beading during the week. The brain just doesn't want to engage after coming home from work, dealing with dinner, cleaning up, etc. But maybe I'll bead, maybe I'll read.
Listening to the audiobook of BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED by Lisa Gardner. 1st of 2 featuring Frankie Elkin, a missing persons volunteer.
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her.
Published 2021; 395 pages (or 12 hours 7 minutes long)
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Tuesday.
Coda's home. He's very happy to be home.
Ryker followed me downstairs as I was leaving this morning. He's gotten used to the idea of going to work.
About to start TELL ME by Anne Frasier. 2nd of 2 in Inland Empire series.
No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies. At a campsite on California’s Pacific Crest Trail, a guide is murdered and three young hikers vanish without a trace. The only lead is a puzzle in itself: a video of the crime scene, looking eerily staged, uploaded to social media. The girl who posted it can’t be found. Is it a viral hoax gone unspeakably wrong, or is there something more sinister at play in the forest? The case intensifies when one of the missing is found wandering down a dirt road, confused and afraid. As Reni and Daniel struggle to sort fact from fiction, a secret past collides with the present, threatening to sever their relationship. Are some truths too much to bear? Will this be the case that finally breaks them?
Published 2021; 285 pages.
Maybe I'll do some beading tonight. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll read. We'll see.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Monday. Receptionist called in again so I missed being at Coda's appointment this morning.
The vet called to say the granulation in Coda's leg had started so they're going to stitch up the wound. He can probably come home after work.
I finished THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn. A rather good book and worth the big size. Probably one of the better ones I've read this year.
Currently reading THE MURDER BOOK by Lissa Marie Redmond. 2nd of 5 featuring Lauren Riley, a cold case homicide detective, in Buffalo, New York, in the Cold Case Investigation series.
Cold Case Detectives Lauren Riley and her partner Shane Reese are helping the Homicide Squad after a murder earlier in the day left the department short-staffed. As their shift ends, Reese leaves Lauren alone only for her to be savagely beaten and stabbed from behind minutes later. Lauren didn’t see her attacker, but knows it was a fellow police officer from the city-issued boots she glimpsed as she passed out. Stolen during the attack is the Murder Book, which contains evidence on all active cold cases. Without the book, old homicides became almost impossible to track down. Who in police headquarters would try to kill a fellow officer? Why’d they suddenly want the Murder Book? Although hurt and on enforced leave, nothing will stop Lauren from seeking answers . . . but who on the force can she trust and how safe is she within her own home?
Published 2019; 312 pages.
I went to the bead shop after visiting Coda on Saturday. I'm closing in on getting the grab bag jewelry done. I've done a lot. Being my first time, I'm trying to use every item as best as I can. I don't think one necessarily has to do that to participate. I'm just pushing my creativity and learning new skills so it's still enjoyable. I probably won't do this every month but it's been a great experience and I love the direction this is taking me.
Tonight we're having tacos while watching some Antique Roadshow before reading and going to bed hopefully early.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
TGIF. Sorry, another short one today. Receptionist called in sick so I'm covering front desk and phones.
No real plans for the weekend. Coda will stay with the vet probably through the weekend.
I haven't beaded all week so I'll need to use the weekend to keep working on the grab bag challenge jewelry. I just don't know if I'll be doing it from home or if I'll go to the bead shop since I won't need to care for Coda's recovery quite yet. I haven't decided yet.
So far Steve doesn't have any plans. So maybe it will be a quiet couple days. I'll read, bead, nap, binge.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Really not much to report today. Work. Coda still in the hospital; Ryker at work. Home, dinner, read/binge, probably won't bead, bed.
I'll see you tomorrow
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Wednesday. Coda is in the doggo hospital. They wanted to give him IV antibiotic and really super clean out his wound under sedation. It was hard leaving my baby there last night. So hard. And as much as Ryker is annoyed by him, Ryker is acting a little lost without his little brother.
So I took Ryker to work with me today. The vet, I think, wants to keep Coda for a couple days so Ryker will have another bring-your-pet-to-work day tomorrow. He finds it very boring. He mostly sleeps. But sleep in work air conditioning or home air conditioning?
Currently reading THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn. Stand alone.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.
1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...
Published 2021; 646 pages. I usually don't care for WWII stories but I'm really liking it.
Probably because I'm reading that nonfiction book on Churchill.
Steve's got the gun range tonight. I may bead; I'll probably read. Then bedtime.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Sorry, see ya tomorrow.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
