Wednesday
Steve's got the gun range tonight. I will either read or bullet journal or both after I take care of the doggos.
I accidentally on purpose have been looking at reading journal layouts which has led me to looking at books. I wish I had more time to read because I want to read a LOT of things.
Unless I gave up sleep ....
You're right. I almost like that more....
Anyway, finding lots of books to save or do samples and stuff.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Tuesday
New books!
THE INK BLACK HEART by Robert Galbraith. 6th of 6 in series featuring Cormoran Strike, a private detective, and his partner Robin Ellacott, in London.
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
Published 2022; 1274 pages.
Also started BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry. Stand alone.
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Published 2022; 398 pages. This wasn't one of the three new releases today. I started to read the sample yesterday to kill time waiting for the Galbraith, and what do you know, I got hooked.
The other two new releases are:
Also a new episode today of Good Bones to watch
And my new reading bullet journals SHOULD show up today.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
It was a pretty good weekend. Hopefully, we got things straightened out with the beading group. I worked on my bullet journal while I was there but then scrapped it all because the ink bled through on the pages of the new September journal and I couldn't have that for a whole month. Good thing I had a couple extras on hand. And now I'm happy. Much better.
Steve's got a committee meeting tonight. I probably won't watch anything on TV but just work on the September journal. Yesterday afternoon I got most of the spreads worked out and inked so I can get through this weekend. I just have to decorate it.
Or stickers.
I've got cube steaks in the crock pot going for tomorrow and Steve tonight if he wants to eat when he gets home. I accidentally made some blue cheese dressing yesterday morning before realizing I had some Everything Bagel dressing left over so I don't need to make dressing tonight.
I am very excited and happy that the new Robert Galbraith comes out tomorrow -- or 10pm our time tonight.
And in true JK Rowling fashion, each book gets longer and longer. This one is 1024 in hardcover, 1274 in Kindle.
I almost want to order the hardcover now just to see it. Eventually, I will be ordering all six because these are keepers to me. I re-read the last chapter of the previous book to refresh my memory.
Ohhhh yeah, and there's a three-day weekend coming up.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
TGIF
Man, I don't know what is out there but EVERYONE is cranky.
Oh yes. Yes, they are. I don't want to be near it anymore.
I'm so glad the weekend is near.
I've got the bead group tomorrow. There's something brewing there that needs to be taken care of. It was suggested yesterday that we change the frequency of the meeting times to every other Wednesday and every other Saturday alternating weeks.
Jim is the one apparently behind it and from his texts, he's got some kind of bug up his youknowwhat and I don't know why. I know that he has been irritated that I haven't been beading while there, instead I've been working on my bullet journal. And it irritates him when people don't do ANYTHING but talk while there. However, there is nothing that says what one has to do anything whatsoever. A couple months ago, it was decided that when the time came that we had finished meeting for what we had pre-paid for, then we would be meeting at Jim's house. I didn't want to do that because I think it's a huge imposition on him and his wife but I was outnumbered. Now he's saying that's off the table but there are sour grapes involved. He won't be there tomorrow because he had made other plans but for those that do show up, we need to get some things resolved. See? People are just flippin' cranky.
We have On Patrol live tonight and tomorrow night to watch. I have streaming Making the Cut to watch via Amazon this weekend. I need to work on my September bullet journal rather quickly. I'm hoping the new book journals show up in tomorrow's mail so I can start that, too. I need naps.
Have a good weekend
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Thursday
Tonight we have BattleBots to watch. I'm kinda tired because after two or three hours of sleep last night, I woke up and then couldn't fall back asleep for a couple hours. Wasted time. Bah.
It would be nice to go to bed early-ish but probably won't happen. I also need to prep for tomorrow's salad -- making the Everything Bagel Seasoning dressing again:
But otherwise things are good to go. Easy peasy.
I watched a YouTube last night of the girl whose book journal I like, go through her 2022 reads thus far. She's in her maybe late 20s or 30-ish, very intelligent. But her view of life is a prime example of the indoctrination that goes on in education now. She can only see through the lens of "colonization", LGBTQ, racism, gender-ism, etc.
That's the way they have been brainwashed; they can't see anything else. And it's damn horrible.
With all the jewelry making that I've been doing for the past three years, I don't really do earrings mostly because I don't wear them. I don't wear them because my earlobes are mostly closed and I haven't done anything about that. I will today.
That's what I'm doing during my lunch. And back to wearing earrings and maybe making them.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
Wednesday.
I could swear that Mercury is in retrograde because of the morning I had. But it's not. I ordered breakfast from Hardee's for the guys via DoorDash because there was a truck to unload and we try to feed them. Long story short, the person delivered to the wrong place and we never got the food. DoorDash would only refund about 25% of the total amount I got charged. I contacted my credit card company and they said it could be disputed but I had to wait until it officially posted to the count ... in a day or so. The good news is that it was actually transacted through Paypal who immediate refunded my the remaining amount. And Steve was mad with me when he found out how much it had cost (my money). But food is expensive these days. Lesson learned.
Steve has got the gun range tonight.
Tonight I've got to do some prepping for my salad tomorrow -- cook some sausage, make some salad dressing. It's pizza salad tomorrow.
And I need to do my writing pages this evening per usual. Also, I'd like to finishing watching the new episode of Good Bones via streaming. And I want to read.
I think I'll be going with MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS by Anthony Marra. Stand alone.
Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won’t speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can’t escape the studio’s narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria’s only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father’s past threatens Maria’s carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father’s fate—and her own.
Published 2022; 412 pages.
I viewed some YouTube videos of a book journal bullet journal chick that I found that I like how she set up her reading journal and one of the videos was her "best of" reads for last year. She had a bracket like basketball, one book per month. Then the winners were pitted like January versus February, until there were six. And then three. And then one. And her agony at having to choose was amusing to watch. But it also made me re-think my personal reading choices lately.
Anyway, I think getting back to reading tracking, doing a journal this way, will make me more conscious of what I read.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
