It was a take-it-easy kind of weekend as the husband had to do some work. We did manage to do the usual weekend things like swim class (it was sunny for a change!), tennis, and go out for some meals.

 

I also did some baking. I made financiers for the first time and although I didn’t manage to get that characteristic dome, the financiers did taste good!

 

 

Currently…

 

Reading:

 

 

 

Watching:

The new season (or at least it’s season two according to Netflix) of The Big Family Cooking Showdown

Listening:

 

Eating:

Homemade Chinese bakery-style sausage buns

Drinking:

Yorkshire Gold with milk

Cooking:

Browsing:

“She was two things at once. Bodily she was a matron, jowly, bosomy, bottomy odd. At heart she was a gamine. Her smile was like a baby’s, full of joyful elan. You believed you had caused it. You felt felled by a stroke of luck.”

31 YA books by black authors that you can’t miss this year 

The locked-room mystery is back

Last week:

I read:

Front Desk – Kelly Yang

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R King (reread)

I posted:

Book Beginnings/Friday 56 – The Calculating Stars

Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong

Library Loot (February 20 to 26)

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I loved with <2000 Goodreads ratings