I'm having a tough week. Or rather I'm allowing myself to be bothered by a tough week.
I'll be honest. I need a break from people.
Exactly. And I haven't figured out what I'm in the mood to read yet.
No sprints tonight. Steve has the gun range.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
So I'm not in a great mood. And I don't know if I'm in the mood to read the books I'm currently reading.
And I don't know what to read otherwise at the moment.
Sprints tonight.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
I finished THE ATLANTIS CODE by Charles Brokaw. 4 stars. Fun thriller in the vein of THE DAVINCI CODE. And I finished MIRANDA IN RETROGRADE by Lauren Layne. Also 4 stars
Currently reading WORDHUNTER by Stella Sands.
Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The top student in her forensic linguistics class, she’s tapped by local police to use her skills to decipher harrowing notes left by a stalker-turned-rapist—and succeeds brilliantly. But when the daughter of a local mayor is abducted, Maggie isn’t sure she’s the right person to help the police solve the crime. Given what happened to her best childhood friend, Maggie just might be too close to this one. Yet she knows the authorities in this rural south-Central Florida town cannot crack the case without her special skill. Along with her new best friend, a detective Jackson, Maggie begins to analyze the texts, emails, and verbal tics of various suspects . . . and comes to a disturbing conclusion that will rock this small community.
Published 2024; 256 pages. I love the linguistics of it. This is an interesting character and setting. From the library.
We watched the movie Twisters this weekend. There was much to mock but I did enjoy the improbable ride.
In honor of that, I think my next GarbAugust read will be LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE by Elizabeth Hrib.
Recently single, livestock vet Kate Cardiff is tired of risking her heart. So when an emergency calls her home to her family’s struggling ranch, Kate is ready to help—and definitely not looking for love. It’s dislike at first sight when she meets temporary ranch hand and storm-chasing photographer Nathan Prescott. He says he can win her over, but Nathan lives in the moment, not for the future. If Kate opens her heart to someone who lives on the edge, will taking the risk lead to another heartbreak…or a new beginning?
Published 2023; 263 pages.
No sprints tonight.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
I have decided to remove one of the planned Christmas crochet projects. Or rather, I think I've substituted it. I'm not making anything for Christmas for Candy - rather I'm getting her a gift certificate to get her ears pierced. She keeps saying she wants to so this will be the push, I mean nudge to get it done.
I still could make her something for her birthday in January. But I think a shawl made of the Caron Latte Cakes yarn would be nice for Mom.
And of course I'm going to add another read to the three I've got going and several others on deck.
About to start MIRANDA IN RETROGRADE by Lauren Layne. Rom com.
After getting passed over for tenure and having her life upended in the process, a physics professor decides to throw caution to the wind and live by her horoscope predictions for a year in this effervescent rom-com from the New York Times bestselling author of Made in Manhattan. As the youngest physics professor at her university, practical-minded Miranda Reed plans her life with minute precision. But that’s before she’s denied tenure and the promotion she thought was guaranteed. Suddenly, her tidy life is anything but constant. Overdue for a sabbatical, Miranda takes some time to look towards the stars—only this time, she’s not looking for black holes. With her faith in science shaken, Miranda turns to a practice she’s long dismissed as astrology. Determined to figure out why her life has suddenly gone sideways, Miranda commits to a year of letting her horoscope guide her. Put a down payment on a home? Not while Mercury’s in retrograde. Spontaneous dinner party invitation? Sorry, horoscope says Gemini Rising best stay in tonight. And as far as the intriguingly aloof artist living next door? Never. His Aries energy is all wrong. On the other hand, the charming father of her new tutoring pupil is Sagittarian perfection. Made for her...right? As Miranda navigates life with new a perspective, she slowly discovers neither science nor the stars have all the answers. And that, when it comes to love, you sometimes just have to trust your heart.
Published 2024; 288 pages.
So the usual this weekend. Reading, crocheting, walking Keo, napping. I would like to do some jettisoning of stuff in the house. Maybe on Sunday.
I also have a haircut and of course sprints tomorrow.
Have a good weekend
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
I'm enjoying the books that I'm reading currently. That's all I want to do.
In other news, I'm so very tired of dealing with other people's problems.
The easy answer is because I can only see through my perspective but what I'm asking I guess is why am I attracting this to my experience?
Sprints tonight.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
I have ditched pretty much my entire GarbAugust plan. That plan was made before August started.
Last night during sprints, one of sprinters asked what was my guilty pleasure read. I had to opnder it during the first sprint and then hit me with the obvious...
In a nutshell, Da Vinci Code type stories. Which was a type of book I liked before The Davinci Code came out but that sums it up. Vatican conspiracies, biblical archeology, treasure hunting, etc.
So I spent some of sprinting last night looking for new GarbAugust options. And I thanked the person for making me work for it, thinking about it, and verbalizing it. And I found one that I think fits the bill.
Currently reading THE ATLANTIS CODE by Charles Brokaw. 1st of 4 in series.
A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and power… but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man.While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world."Short, gripping chapters move the action from Egypt to Russia to Africa to London.
Published 2009; 429 pages.
And I think I may be starting another one. It's a new release this week. THE WINGED TIARA by J'Nell Ciesielski. Stand alone.
After a hasty wartime marriage and an even quicker divorce, two jewel thieves risk it all to obtain the grandest prize of them all, the last Valkyrie tiara, but their hearts may have something else in mind. It was a match made in champagne-soaked heaven, but all too soon the bubbles dried up and divorce papers were issued just in time to ring in the end of the Great War. Jewel thieves and ex-lovers Jasper and Esme find themselves circulating among the elite of British aristocracy where the diamond-lined pockets are ripe for picking. But when the last Valkyrie tiara ever created becomes the talk of the season neither will stop to obtain it, not even when they inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a game of cat-and-mouse where their lives are suddenly at stake.
Published 2024; 352 pages. I think I'll do this as an audiobook. Isn't that a gorgeous cover?
No sprints tonight. Steve's got the gun range.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
I finished AFTER OZ by Gordon McAlpine. I think I'm giving it 5 stars. Well done. And sadly, at the notes at the end, we learn that the author passed away before this was published.
I'm not quite sure what to read next. I should read my next GarbAugust choice, MAGIC'S MANTLE.
I have sprints tonight.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
