A Book Lovin’ Mama’s Blog – Sunday Post January 21, 2024
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Last Week on the Blog
Cover Reveal: Something Like Love by Monica James
Book Review: Hour of Need by Melinda Leigh
ARC Review: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
RePost Book Review: Minutes to Kill by Melinda Leigh
Book Review: The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter
Book Review: Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks (Romanceopoly Reading Challenge)
Upcoming Posts for Next Week
Book Review: The Darkest Promise by Gena Showalter
Book Review: Wine Country King by Claire Marti
RePost Book Review: Seconds to Live by Melinda Leigh
ARC Review: Wrath by Cala Riley
Books I Bought/Borrowed/ARCs
Bought: Never Say Never by Harlow James (Audiobook)
Bought: Breaking His Code by Patricia D. Eddy
Bought: Rafe by Kathy Ivan
Bought: The King by Nana Malone
Bought: The Wife He Needs by Brenda Jackson
Borrowed: The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan
Borrowed: Highlander Most Wanted by Maya Banks
Life Updates
It was a pretty quiet week. My youngest ended up only having a three-day school week due to the school district deciding to close schools on Wednesday (she already was off on Monday due to MLK Day) because we had a hard freeze warning and possible icy conditions on the road after getting rain on Tuesday. We live in the Panhandle of Florida, and we don’t have the equipment to treat the roads when we do have icy conditions. It’s not the first time we’ve had ice and even snow before here in the Panhandle. We had icy conditions in 2014 and snow in 2017. The snow only stuck around for a few hours, but it was enough for my daughters to be happy.
While I was freezing this week, my oldest daughter was enjoying the weather in the 70s and 80s. I told her the next time the weather gets below the 40s here, I’m heading her way to visit.
I ended up having two migraines this week, which I knew would happen due to the weather changing. I do take medication for my migraines, but sometimes, the medication doesn’t work, and I’m down for 24-48 hours due to the migraine. Maybe, in the future they will find a cure for migraines completely.
I did manage to read some books this week when I wasn’t having a migraine attack. Most of them were rereads of some favorite books. I love rereading books, especially when I feel myself going into a reading slump.
How was everyone else’s week? How cold did it get where you are?
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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