The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.I’ve just finished The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennesy and I can hardly see where or what I have to type through my red and swollen eyes. Please don’t expect any quirky remarks from me today. But really please do read Miss Queenie. If you can read it alongside her companion The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry so much the better.     As sad songs and sad books always go, they make you lose track of what you were suppose to do. I actually had this really nice Sunday Post planned, but I have no idea where to find the blueprint under the pile of tissues. The one thing I can remember is that I wanted to change My Sunday Post subheadings to match my page-tabs. So let’s try that (I’m just going to blow my nose first). Featured Inkspots In case you have ever wondered what that is, that is the tab under […]

I really love my Sunday visits with you guys, but today I have a serious case of a dreamy far off look with my nose stuck in a book Seeing that this is a very serious condition, I am just quickly stopping by to give a quick recap of the past week. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.HighlightThe highlight of my week was definitely receiving my firs ARC from Forest Avenue Press. I honestly thought it was going to take ages, dark ones and wintery ones, for me to receive an ARC. I was so excited, I even wrote a post on it. My First………Can you still remember what was the first ARC your received?Weekly features/Memes Top Ten Tuesday – Top ten underrated books on Goodreads For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, you had to pick ten books that you really loved, but had a rating of less than 2000 on Goodreads. I was amazed how many books […]

Sunday 03 July 2016 – It’s a celebration! The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.It’s a celebration!  Tomorrow will be my first quarter Anniversary! Yes, I’ve been gracing The Blogosphere with my inky presence for exactly 3 months now. Yea!In order for you to celebrate with me, you can choose between 4 amazing treats:   1. Buy as many sweets as you can for a quarter   2. Go on a date with a quarterback     3. Treat yourself to a quarter pounder  (seeing that it’s on me, you won’t gain a pound. Especially if you currently find yourself in the EU) 4. You can click, click, click and start following me. (It’s a treat. Really) Go on – treat yourself! And what do we say?  Thank You A very big thank-you-shout-out to all of you for keeping me afloat in this vast ocean of the Blogging Sea. Without you (if your name is Jack – please […]

Sunday 26 June 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.This is a very quick post just to say that I’m back from holidays! Had a lovely time and an even lovelier time today. I have a brand-new look and would love to hear your feedback and comments. Honesty is the best policy – so don’t hold back! (You will not know if I stick out my tongue or pull a face or even start crying. You might only notice a couple of silent cyber attacks. (As soon as I figure out how to launch one…) )I will be an active participant on the blogosphere as from tomorrow again and polish the brand-new look. Still need to update a few pages as well. The only thing I can share with you today is my review on 11/22/63. I finally finished it and I can’t stop talking about it. So I’ll just keep quiet and share the link. 10 Reasons why you […]

Sunday 12 June 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.A couple of weeks ago I told you (very excitedly) that holidays are approaching in SA. Winter holidays are the best! We have a stunning arts-festival here in Nelspruit and normally all my friends are around (the Lowveld is the best place to be in winter). So the flow of red wine and good company is quite similar to the wedding in Cana.And then my husband threw me a curve ball on Wednesday. We are going away for the long-weekend and then we’ll be on holiday the next week as well. Of course this is wonderful news!!!! IF you work for a boss and you can put leave in. And if you are NOT a part-time teacher and school is NOT closing during the time that you will be on your surprise holiday. I guess if you don’t have a blog that you realllllly try to get of […]

Sunday 05 June 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up. Just to proof that I know how to be sweet and short (yes I know I am physically sweet and short, this is to show I can do it with words as well), today’s post is going to be a very quick recap of the past week. Weekly Meme’s: Cover Characteristics  (I was a bit stuck on a bench here) Top Ten Tuesday (Top Ten Thursday…) Friday Meets I’ve posted my Library Card for June as well and I am thrilled to have a fully booked card. I’m not a reading ‘wallflower’ anymore! I just hope that I will be able to give all these books a twirl…. Library Card – June 2016 Highlight of the week: I finally finished Come, thou Tortoise. And I loved it soooo much. Maybe that was why I read this book at tortoise speed….. I promise to write a really nice, well […]

Sunday 29 May 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.Winter is coming to South Africa! Next week it is officially winter in the southern hemisphere. Time for red red wine, read red books and  wear a red coat.  This past week we had more than one day where the temperature dropped below 20 degrees Celsius in Nelspruit. Yes, that is considered as very, very cold here. But if this were you: you would be cold too! No, those are not statues. Those are real giraffes and zebras grazing right on our doorstep. No, they are not dangerous. Unless you are grass or a tree aloe. I’ve finished King Solomon’s mines on Thursday and just realized for the gazillionth time how blessed we are to live in South Africa. Yes, we have a parliament of baboons (in the Kruger National Park – what did you think I referred to?)    But we have Table Mountain, The Big Five, lovely weather […]

Sunday 22 May 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.Helllloooooo all you lovely people out there!! Yes, I am trying to sound like the lovely Mrs Doubtfire. I need the image of MrsDoubtfire or Maria/Mary (same same) or I will even settle for Nanny Mcphee. I need to think of puppies and rainbows and nannies who provide sugar in your medicine and not be called Sugar.           May I start with the let-down of my week. The literal let-down. I let myself put a book down.  This is not a very common occurrence, I don’t like to hurt a book’s feelings. But the problem with this book is that it is common (like in “common with a capital K”. You might have to be South African to understand that expression) and it doesn’t have any feelings. Or regards for anyone who might have feelings. And this is very very sad. I actually rooted for this novel on my Friday Meets post. I […]

Sunday 15 May 2016 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.My good-old trusted friend and companion – HP my laptop, decided to retire early in 2016. My husband and I thought it wise to put him in an “old age home” for computers. The type of home where they minimize your daily schedule to maybe just one or two chores and for very limited time. All HP-my-old-pal had to do, was wake-up every morning, go to just one folder, open it and connect to his HP nephew, the printer. Not too much strain on those old wires. But alas…. It was with the greatest of sadness that I declared HP as dead as a doorstop 6 weeks ago. (My husband suggested that we use HP as a doorstop in future – to honor the memory of our profound loss).I told my husband that I don’t need a new computer at the moment. He is at work during the […]