The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead.
What’s been happening since my last Sunday Post:
I finished painting the bedroom, finally! Well, I do still have to replace the trim around the windows, but everything else is done, and we were able to put the furniture back. I also did some serious culling of my bookcases, which was way past due. I have five full-size bookcases and one shorter one (not including the ones in the kids rooms)–and yet, I can’t fit all of my books on shelves. And, I have books that I’ve held onto for ten years that I know I’m not going to read. I mean, I keep telling myself maybe I’ll read them, but I need to be realistic.
What I Read:
- I listened to EngiNerds by Jarrett Lerner. I love everything about Jarrett Lerner’s online presence, but I’d never read one of his books (even though I own two of them). I had to change that! This book is a ton of fun and perfect for MG readers who loved Wimpy Kid.
- Next I listened to Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee. You know how much I love foxes! I couldn’t resist this one.
- One of my friends from Barnes and Noble raves about The Wedding People by Alison Espach, and she was so right. A fantastic read!
- After listening to Maybe a Fox, I realized I had another Kathi Appelt book that I’d been holding onto for ages, so I read Once Upon a Camel—ironic that it’s another book with an animal main character.
- Another book I’ve been meaning to read for forever is This Appearing House by Ali Malinenko. I’d heard such amazing things about this MG horror book featuring an MC who is a cancer survivor. Malinenko wove the story together in incredible ways, and I highly recommend it.
- And finally, I listened to All the Light We Cannot See, mostly because AJ over at Read All the Things listed it as one of the books she recommends most often, and I loved many of the other books on her list. I’m not always a huge fan of war stories, but this one was very different than what I was expecting, and the writing is utterly gorgeous!
Here’s what you may have missed on the blog since my last Sunday Post:
- None this week!
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Yay for finishing the bedroom! That’s awesome! It always makes me a little sad when when we have to clean up our bookcases like that but I know it’s ideal and practical. Although, my notion always is I just need more bookcases! Lol.
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I know, right? More bookcases is the true solution. (My husband definitely disagrees. LOL!)
Look at you getting stuff done. It’s so hard doing the clean-outs, but I agree, if you have not read it (or in the case of clothing, worn it) in a decade, you probably won’t.
Yeah, I think ten years is definitely long enough to give a book a chance! LOL!
I need to do another weeding of my bookshelves too. I have some that are over 10 years that I’ve had them, but they are autographed, often ARCs from the big Book Expo in NYC, back in either 2012 or 2014, the two years I think I went? But I don’t want to give up on them just yet. I do have several from my Book of the Month club subscription that I never got around to reading. I should get them out of my house. And I don’t know when you worked at the bookstore were you still able to get stripped cover books? I have a ton of those too, I am slowly making myself throw them away. But ones I know I might never find an actual copy of the book again to read I can’t seem to do. Hope you have a good week!
We couldn’t take strip cover books (at least not that I’d ever heard), so I at least didn’t have that problem. I did get a lot of ARCs though, especially since I was really the only one interested in the middle grade ones. And, yes, a lot of my books were still from BEA and Book Expo! (Yep, some signed from 2014.) I’ve held onto them all these years out of a mixture of guilt and hope that I would still read them. But, yeah, reality calls. (I did save some signed ones that I’m nostalgic about.)
Also, I just wrote this in a reply to another comment, but I’ll put it here too, in case it inspires you –
One thing I did end up doing is searching for the audiobooks of ones I still thought sounded interesting (but I knew I wasn’t going to read) on Libby and Hoopla. If I found them, I favorited them and then put the book in the donation pile. I’m way more likely to get to them via audio. I’m already listening to one that I’d had on my shelf since 2019!
I did go to add to the library Libby audiobooks the e-galleys on Netgalley I never got to, but guess I could do that for the other ARCs too, and maybe put those ARCs in my giveaway pile. It’s so hard though! To have met the author and then feeling bad I didn’t get something read I really wanted to. But you’re right, at this point, I’m probably never going to. Oh, they didn’t do the strip covers anymore at B&N? That sucks, but they had been getting really strict about it right at the end of my time there back in 2020, so it’s possible that stopped.
Culling the bookshelves can be very satisfying sometimes. It just has to happen every once in a while. Lol. I am also known to hold onto books because like you, MAYBE I’ll get to them one day. No, I won’t 😂
Yes! It was both sad and satisfying to get rid of books. One thing I did end up doing is searching for the audiobooks of ones I still thought sounded interesting (but I knew I wasn’t going to read) on Libby and Hoopla. If I found them, I favorited them and then put the book in the donation pile. I’m way more likely to get to them via audio. I’m already listening to one that I’d had on my shelf since 2019!
I’m glad you finished your bedroom. And culling bookshelves is hard, but it’s good to share books you’re not going to read again with others.
I realllly need to clean my bookcases and purge. The dust alone could knock a person out! And like you said, I need to be realistic about how much I will read- considering I have read zero books I own this year, not even the new Hunger Games book! I want to read The Wedding People too, glad to hear you liked it!