I do not acknowledge Monday

Monday. Service Manager back. A new week.

I've pretty much finished the shawl. I just need to weave in the yarn ends in a couple places. Next, I need to figure out how to ship it to Canada.

Next up - finish the Miranda Christmas blanket which should go quickly. Finish the wedding blanket - more involved. Neither of which can be brought to work to work on during lunch so I'll be starting the Christmas blanket for Kevin. 

Currently reading a library book, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARROTS by Donna Andrews 5th of 36 in series featuring Meg Langslow, decorative blacksmith in a small Virginia town

Meg Langslow knew the fan convention for her actor-boyfriend's hit television series was going to be the ultimate in weird. But she came along because she figured Michael could use an occasional dose of sanity-and because it was an inspired place to sell her hand-crafted weapons. And so far, she was dealing pretty well with the costumed fans camped outside, the batch of escaped parrots and monkeys frolicking throughout the hotel...and the minefield of egos lurking behind the show's success. But soon after Meg goes head-to-head with egomaniacal series star Tamerlaine Wynncliffe-Jones, the "Queen B" turns up brutally murdered. Now, with Michael in the running as prime suspect, Meg will go up against an all-star cast of not-even-innocent parties, hidden identities, and buried motives. And she'll cross swords with a deviously obsessed murderer determined to write her out of this picture for good.

Published 2003; 354 pages. This is actually a re-read for me but I have very little memory of the plot and/or characters.

Still reading NAVOLA. 

No sprints tonight. 

Have a good day

Much love, 

PK the Bookeemonster

TGIF!

Friday. Service manager out all week. 

Once again, no real updates. I mostly viewed the convention coverage this week on YouTube and not as much reading. Last night I ripped a row out on the shawl because I thought I'd made a mistake but apparently, I hadn't. Lost time and wasted effort.

The clock is ticking and I need to get the wedding and Christmas stuff done and more progress. 

Recapping: reading and listening to NAVOLA by Paolo Bacigalupi (fantasy) and L.A. BURNING by D. C. Taylor (crime fiction/thriller). Crocheting an orange shawl for an online friend who is starting the process for a heart transplant but I also need to finish the wedding afghan for our neighbors by October and I've only a skein and a half left to do on one of five Christmas present to be done by December 24th. I have a handful of YouTube book people's videos to catch up on. I'm in the middle of watching Blue Bloods and My Life Is Murder on Amazon Prime.

Sprints tomorrow. Steve has Big Sky State Games event to run tomorrow. I'm reading and crocheting. Walking Keo. Staying out of the heat.

Have a good weekend

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Eye on the prize: the weekend

Thursday. Service manager out still.

I am planning on listening to the audiobook of L.A. Burning. I started reading it last night and it has grabbed me so far. It's gritty. The female protagonist isn't a "good" girl but she's honest about it. 

Sprints tonight. Crocheting. Watching YouTube. 

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Aw, do we have to?

Wednesday

Not much really going on. No changes, no updates. Nothing to write home about.

I'm just plugging away on the side quest crochet shawl. Same books in play. 

No sprints tonight, crocheting very much, watching YouTube. Steve has the gun range.

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Tuesday

Tuesday

Sprints tonight. Crocheting tonight.

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

We got so lucky

Monday

I finished MURDER AT MELROSE COURT by Karen Baugh Menuhin this weekend. 3.5 stars for the story. 5 stars for the audiobook performer. At this point I'll continue with the series even though there were some things that irritated me. 

I'm back to reading NAVOLA. 

But I think I may also be starting L.A. BURNING by D.C. Taylor. Stand alone

An ex-con hits the streets of L.A. to find her twin sister’s killer. Is it a mission of justice—or a quest for vengeance? Cody Bonner, identical twin, daughter of a major movie star, a teenage street kid in Los Angeles, a bank robber at nineteen, and a prison inmate at twenty. When she’s released after six years, she returns to L.A. with a purpose: to learn the truth about her sister Julie, who washed up on a Malibu beach a year earlier. The connection between the twins was so powerful that the day Julie died, Cody collapsed in the prison yard. Now that bond is driving her to seek justice—at any cost. Using bootleg skills she learned in prison, Cody begins to peel back the layers of mystery. Her search leads her to the darker alleys behind the dazzle of the film business, and into the world of high-powered agents, high-priced call girls, and men with a taste for sexual violence. As she homes in on her mother’s powerful agent, Harry Groban, a man with ugly accusations of abuse in his past, Cody becomes more deeply enmeshed in the life she left behind as a teenager: her mother’s star power, her former classmates-turned-producers, glitzy parties, and a handsome former love who knows all the players. Is Groban at the center? Could there be others who had a hand in Julie’s murder? As Cody gets closer to the truth, another ghost from her criminal past is stalking her—one that could put her back in prison for years.

Published 2022; 288 pages. I dunno. The sample just read interesting and I could get both the ebook and audiobook via library. 

No sprints tonight. I need to do some serious crocheting. I did well on Saturday until the news. Then I couldn't concentrate

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Ready for the weekend.

TGIF. Receptionist out again for the morning.

Currently reading/listening to MURDER AT MELROSE COURT by Karen Baugh Menuhin. 1st of 13 in historical mystery series.

It’s 1920 and Christmas is coming. Major Lennox finds a body on his doorstep – why on his doorstep? Was it to do with the Countess? Was it about the ruby necklace? Lennox must go to Melrose Court home to his uncle, Lord Melrose, to uncover the mystery. But then the murders start and it snows and suddenly everything becomes very complicated.

Published 2018; 262 pages. The audiobook's reader/performer is luscious. A rich masculine voice who does the different characters well enough you KNOW who's speaking and their character type. 

Haircut and sprints tomorrow. Lots and lots of crocheting.

Have a good weekend

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster