Good boy gets a Friday

 Thursday

 

No plans this evening. I'd like to read after writing my pages but maybe I'll watch the rest of the Curse of Oak Island premiere from Tuesday -- or I could just save that until the weekend. We'll see. 

 

 I was making a list last night while doing my pages, of the books I'll actually probably likely read for the rest of the year to make my goal of reading 60 books in 2023. In my list earlier, I had forgotten a couple new releases that I will absolutely be reading.

 

 The first is WELL TRAVELED by Jen DeLuca. 4th of 4 in the Renaissance Faire rom com series.

 

 And THE SECRET OF THE LOST PEARLS by Darcie Wilde. 6th of 6 in series featuring Rosalind Thorne, a minor heiress in 19th century London, England, in the Useful Woman mysteries.

 

 There's two. I'll finish my current read so there's three. And then the next in series of the following as I mentioned the other day:

 

 That's reads four and five. And probably in December the next Sherry Thomas as I'm doing one per month.

 

There's six of eight without trying that hard. And then just two more. And I haven't counted any audiobooks I'm listening to because I seem to have a problem completing them.

 

Have a good day

 

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Resist!

 Wednesday. 

Sure.

No time spend on this today. Gotta keep moving.

Steve has the gun range. I'm doing the usual.

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

It's a conspiracy, isn't it

 Tuesday

 Tonight is the season premiere of the tenth year of The Curse of Oak Island. Two hours. I doubt Coda will let me watch all of it so I'll have to catch it in streaming later.

 I scrambled together a salad for myself for today because I just wasn't in the mood for the leftover soup from last week. I'll have to probably have it tomorrow. But I've used the broth for something else so maybe I'll mix the beef and veggies with some cauliflower rice.

 

 We've got about six weeks left in the year. My reading goal for 2022 was 60 books. According to Goodreads, I'm on track to make that goal but I need to read eight books in six weeks.  Part of the rush to the end is due in part because of the monster-huge Galbraith book at 1274 pages - still only counts as one. Enjoyable but took time.  

Doable, if I plan it with shorter books, like the Murderbot series. I've got four books in that one alone left to read. All are under 200 pages.

 

 

 I kinda hate reading so many of the same author so close together but if needs be.

 

And I have two books left in the Tales of Haroon fantasy series by Alice Sabo. Another series I'm really enjoying and they are also around 200 pages each.

 

And I can count the Sherry Thomas I'm currently reading.

 

And any other book that isn't too long. Why do I care if I make that made-up goal? 

 

 

Next year, I'm looking to read some big fantasy books so I'll be making a goal of 50-ish books.

 

Have a good day

 Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

No. Just ... no.

 Monday

 

We didn't have bead group on Saturday which was rather nice actually. I was able to work on some stuff and read.  

 Currently reading  MURDER ON COLD STREET by Sherry Thomas. 5th of 7 in series featuring Charlotte Holmes, a disgraced young gentlewoman solving cases under the pseudonym Sherlock Holmes, beginning in 1886 London.

Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes’s friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife’s initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage, because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring deeper feelings for one of the men? To make matters worse, he refuses to speak on his own behalf, despite the overwhelming evidence against him. Charlotte finds herself in a case strewn with lies and secrets. But which lies are to cover up small sins, and which secrets would flay open a past better left forgotten? Not to mention, how can she concentrate on these murders, when Lord Ingram, her oldest friend and sometime lover, at last dangles before her the one thing she has always wanted?

 Published 2020; 352 pages.

 The usual this evening. Leftovers for Steve. I should have leftovers for tomorrow. Take care of boys, do my pages. And then read.

 Have a good day

 Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

(angelic music) The weekend cometh

 TGIF

 Currently listening to the audiobook of JUSTICE DELAYED by Marti Green. 5th of 6 in Innocent Prisoners Project series.

 

 The brutal murder of sixteen-year-old Kelly Braden sends shock waves through a community—and an intellectually disabled man to jail. The only witness to Kelly’s murder is the five-year-old cousin she was babysitting. The young girl names their neighbor, Jack Osgood, as the bat-wielding criminal. Two decades later, Osgood faces execution. Defense Attorney Dani Trumball and her partner, investigator Tommy Noorland, are summoned to the Georgia prison where Osgood is on death row. With no friends or family of his own, there is no one left to believe Jack didn’t kill Kelly but Dani and her Help Innocent Prisoners Project. With a mentally disabled son of her own, defending Osgood could be her most heartrending case yet. While fighting a system that blocks her attempts to overturn his conviction, Dani must race to identify the real killer before Osgood’s time runs out—and the murderer strikes again.

Published 2017; 286 pages/7 hours 41 minutes

 Also starting THE LITTLE SHIPS by J. A. Sutherland. 3rd of 6 in Alex Carew SFF series.

 

Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74-gun ship of the line in New London’s space navy. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the war and end the threat of Hanover forever.

Published 2015; 420 pages. Both are Kindle Unlimited books that I need to work through. 

Otherwise, the weekend will be much like the other weekends. I'll have my beloved Thai Beef for my salads. I'll go to the coffee shop tomorrow for bead group. Napping. I'll set up my bullet journal for next week. I'll do some laundry. 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Happy Annual Event 2022

 Thursday. 

 

Birthday day.

 

 Yep another year older. No plans. I had beef soup for my meal of the day. I received some tea and birthday balloons from my co-workers.

 

 Tonight just the same old stuff. I'm just about finished with the Sabo book. That would be nice to do after my pages.

 Have a good day

 

Much love, 

PK the Bookeemonster