Wow, that was some week. In case you didn’t know, it was Book Blogger Awareness Week. In which I added lots of books to my TBR list and lots of new-to-me bloggers to my blog reader. It was a blast!

The boy was pleased to get cheeseburger sliders at Black Angus. I had a bit of a hankering for prime rib and they have lunch specials on Saturdays so that’s where we went.

 

Currently…

 

Reading:

An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) -Jacqueline Winspear

For an upcoming blog tour

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries – Jessa Crispin

Children of the Jacaranda Tree –  Sahar Delijani

Hunger makes me a modern girl – Carrie Brownstein (an audiobook! read by the author!)

Scribd’s announcment (that they’re doing away with unlimited ebooks! GGAAAHHH!) was the push I needed to start reading all these books (except the Winspear) that I had put in my ‘library’ but hadn’t begun reading yet.

The Vegetarian – Han Kang

Update: so while I had originally read somewhere that this book was written in English, turns out it wasn’t and it is indeed a translated book 
Ok so I thought this was a translated book but turns out she wrote it in English. So I am slightly disappointed. But that sounds silly because I’m just glad this book by a Korean author has been making waves.

 

Watching:

 Inside Out. 

I had seen bits and pieces of it on the plane to Singapore last November but sitting with two kids under five for a sixteen hour flight (and that’s just the first leg) means one doesn’t get to watch the whole movie (or keep one’s sanity but that’s another story).

But I was surprised at how adult it seemed. As in I wasn’t sure if this was a Pixar movie a kid would enjoy. Is that why last year they also released The Good Dinosaur? That was the first time Pixar had two releases in one year.

 

Eating:

 

This easy one-bowl chocolate loaf

Drinking:

Tea. Always tea.

Cooking:

I’m not a good meal planner as I never actually stick to any plans I do make! I have a bag of spinach in the fridge though so I may throw that into some kind of baked pasta. I also have some tilapia fillets that I may bake in foil packets, with, if I can get them, some nice asparagus.

Browsing:

These Alice in Wonderland shoes (Boing Boing)

8 small press books to read in February (Bookriot)

10 great writers nobody reads anymore (LitHub)

And happy blog birthday, Andi!

Added to the TBR list:

• What She Left by T.R. Richmond (via Dolce Bellezza) – somehow the cover makes me think of Fates and Furies though
• What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera (via Word by Word) – I had already added this to my list after reading Munaweera’s debut, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, but Claire’s review has made me more eager to read this one and bumped it up my list!
• I really like Stefan Zweig’s Post-Office Girl when I read it last year, so I was happy to learn that Pushkin Press is publishing his collected novellas (via His Futile Preoccupations)

 

 

Last week:

I read:

A ridiculous number of comics, I hope to talk about them sometime this week!

 

I posted:

 

BBAW Day 5 – Burnout!

BBAW Day 4 – staying connected

BBAW Day 3 – Bloggers made me read these

Book Blogger Appreciation Week – An Interview with Shanaya Tales

BBAW Day One – Books r Us