“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what we’ve read the past week and planning to read next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently…

 

Reading:

Black Water Rising – Attica Locke

Intriguing so far.

 

Next up:

Fortunately, the Milk – Neil Gaiman

 

Watching:

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the new Netflix series developed by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. The premise: a group of four young women are released from years of captivity in an underground bunker run by a doomsday cult leader. Kimmy moves to New York City and hilarity ensues!

 

Eating:

Nian gao panfried with egg. Sticky and sweet!

Drinking:

Tea to wash down the stickiness

Cooking:

Kongbah – braised pork usually served with steamed buns

Stirfried rice noodles with sliced beef and broccoli

Claypot rice served with stir fried Asian veg.

Browsing:

I’m not a big Harry Potter fan but I adore this themed quilt featured on Bookriot!

Cathy at 746 Books talks about Once, that little shot-in-Dublin over 17 days for £75,000 movie that grossed $20 million worldwide.

Need something to perk up your Monday? Check out these two Swedish TV chefs as they celebrate cheese doodles day. Cheese Doodles Day?? Just watching her ‘fry’ the cheese doodles makes me smile. But wait for it!

Also, plenty of predictions for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction long list. Here from Nomad Reader, Farm Lane Books

Last week:

I read:

Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) – Jacqueline Winspear

Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary – Keshni Kashyap, Mari Araki (Illustrator)

Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein

Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers

I posted:

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai: Four Girls and a Compact

Read in February 2015

Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear