Greetings!
I may have mentioned previously upon my return
from vacation that there might be some changes to the
bloggity.
Friday, December 16, 2016
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Manview: Greek Tycoon's Mistletoe Proposal by Kandy Shepherd
Welcome to another Manview. For those of you who are new to Manviews,
these are reviews of romance novels
specifically from a man's perspective, the reader today is my very own
Steve. You can find previous Manviews here.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
What Helen Read #8: November 2016
Helen's reading game is strong. That's all I have to say about how many
books she's read in the month of November compared to my pititul TWO
books!!
So many pretties ...
So many pretties ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Book swag from my US trip 2016
While
I was in the US, I had planned to attend NOLA Storycon and to catch up
with some author friends for the towns I happened to be in.
Things did not work out as planned and I had to cancel attending NOLA Storycon and catching up with a few authors in the NOLA area. I had bought a whole bunch of books and sent them to my girl Bambi cos I was attenting NOLA Storycon with her. Since I was not able to attend, she was kind enough to take some of my books and get them signed for me. Here is some of the swag from NOLA.
The first lot of my Jeaniene Frost books.
Things did not work out as planned and I had to cancel attending NOLA Storycon and catching up with a few authors in the NOLA area. I had bought a whole bunch of books and sent them to my girl Bambi cos I was attenting NOLA Storycon with her. Since I was not able to attend, she was kind enough to take some of my books and get them signed for me. Here is some of the swag from NOLA.
The first lot of my Jeaniene Frost books.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
What Deanna Read #10: November 2016
So, I didn't think it was possible to be more pathetic on my reading
count in November than I was in October but I was wrong. I only read
TWO books in the whole of November. One of them I didn't do any justice
to because it was a good book but it took me 1.5 months :-O to finish
reading it.
Yesterday, as I was lying in bed going into my second hour of playing Best Fiends (don't do it, it's addictive and a time suck!) I realised something.
The two months in the US, caring for Steve's dad while be was ill and almost died, the hospital trips (twice), the transition care trips (twice), and helping mom out and transporting her around daily because she no longer drives, really took an emotional toll on both Steve and I. Our emotional tanks are empty, so to speak. Both Steve and I are both sitting on empty on our emotional tanks. :-( Steve's gotten addicted to Bejeweled Blitz!
It is taking us so long to get back into the swing of things. Plus we hit the ground running being back home since we were away for so long. There was a lot of stuff that had piled up which we needed to catch up on.
Anyway, the whole point of this is while I am disappointed I'm not reading as much (and I really want to!), I recognise that I'm not in the right mind space for it at the moment. I'm going to be kind to myself and not beat myself up about it (I've been doing that a bit and feeling guilty about all the review books getting backlogged!).
Here's hoping December will be a better month.
Yesterday, as I was lying in bed going into my second hour of playing Best Fiends (don't do it, it's addictive and a time suck!) I realised something.
The two months in the US, caring for Steve's dad while be was ill and almost died, the hospital trips (twice), the transition care trips (twice), and helping mom out and transporting her around daily because she no longer drives, really took an emotional toll on both Steve and I. Our emotional tanks are empty, so to speak. Both Steve and I are both sitting on empty on our emotional tanks. :-( Steve's gotten addicted to Bejeweled Blitz!
It is taking us so long to get back into the swing of things. Plus we hit the ground running being back home since we were away for so long. There was a lot of stuff that had piled up which we needed to catch up on.
Anyway, the whole point of this is while I am disappointed I'm not reading as much (and I really want to!), I recognise that I'm not in the right mind space for it at the moment. I'm going to be kind to myself and not beat myself up about it (I've been doing that a bit and feeling guilty about all the review books getting backlogged!).
Here's hoping December will be a better month.
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