On My Nightstand June 7, 2025

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Another week of checking way too many books out of the library, and not reading any of them! This is the last really busy weekend, so hopefully I’ll get to some of them soon.

Quote of the week

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
— The Mill On The Floss by George Elliot

On My Nightstand This Week

Paper book - I’m still working on Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem and Across The Airless Wilds. Hoping I get some long nights with these on the porch soon.

Kindle - I started the nap dream that is Audition by Katie Kitamura. What a ride!

Audio - I was lucky enough to get Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten. Loving this.

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On My Nightstand May 31, 2025

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I’m looking forward to a weekend in the yard which means audiobooks! We got a massive amount of rain last night so the weeds will come out easily today. Can’t wait to get that done. I think I’ll be looking for a spot to plant some more veggie seeds too. This spring has been so cool I think I’m going to be able to get away with a few more weeks of beans.

Tomorrow starts a new month, but I’m still in the middle of about 5 May reads. Whatever, this is not my year to meet deadlines- even the fake reading deadlines I set for myself.

Quote of the week

“No one ever owns a cat...You share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respect...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead in the deal.”
— The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun

On My Nightstand This Week

Paper book - I’m still working on Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem and Across The Airless Wilds. It’s going to take me a while, but it’s so worth the time.

Kindle - The Time In Between by Maria Duenas is just as good the second time as the first. I’m thinking I will finish this chunkster over the weekend.

Audio - I have a bunch of Stephen King books on the go. Right now I’m listening to The Dark Half (not sure if I read this when it first came out), then the new one, Never Flinch, and then finally a re-read of Firestarter. Stephen King books say summer to me.

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On My Nightstand May 24, 2025

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The calendar says it should feel like summer, but the weather says otherwise. I’m regretting that I put my winter clothes away. If you’re looking for me I’ll be under a blanket reading my books.

Quote of the week

“Let the world disapprove if we do what we know to be right; let us take no pride in society’s approval if it rises from that which we know to be wrong.”
— The Rushworth Family Plot Claudia Gray

On My Nightstand This Week

Paper book - I’m still working on Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem. Once I started I realized I also had his other book Across The Airless Wilds out from the library and I’ve been going back and forth between the two. I love his writing so much. Hoping to finish one or both this weekend.

Kindle - I’m planning on starting one of the two books I have about the Spanish Civil War this weekend - The Palace at the End of the Sea by Simon Tolkien and The Time In Between by Maria Duenas.

Audio - I’ve been listening to Dr No by Percival Everett. What a crazy ride.

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On My Nightstand May 16, 2025

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This school year is winding up with a bang! Prom is this weekend, plus the last of the league field hockey games, and year two of confirmation prep is almost done. I know I signed up to bring a bunch of different fruit trays to various places, so I need to sit down with my planner this weekend and figure that out. Grateful for Aldi and their wonderful fruit and veggie aisle.

I’m loving the extended evenings with light skies almost until my bed time. Reading on the porch to the sound of frogs signing is a balm in this fraught world.

Quote of the week

“She marveled briefly on how hard humans tried to shape the future, herself included, and how much it was really in the lap of the gods.”
— Murder Most Royal by SJ Bennett

On My Nightstand This Week

Paper book - I finally started Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift and it’s really good! Can’t wait to get back to it tonight.

Kindle - I’m working on another mystery - A Muddied Murder by Wendy Tyson.

Audio - Yesterday I started Entitlement by Rumaan Alam. It’s promising so far!

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On My Nightstand May 10, 2025

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All of my travels are over for now, so I’m hoping for good weather this weekend. I need to spend some quality time with my garden! I think I should be able to start picking peas and lettuce this weekend which is exciting. Some years it gets too hot before I even can pick those cool weather crops. The big bunny who visits my yard ate all of my cilantro and mint so at least he’s a bunny that enjoys flavor.

I’m excited for all of the summer reading lists coming soon. I also have my own list of books to read before I turn 50, and #CampLitsy on the Litsy app. Again, I ask if anyone knows of any jobs that will pay me to read all day?

Quote of the week

“Growing up may be the most remarkable thing that anybody ever does.”
— A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz

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On My Nightstand This Week

Paper book - Trying to decide between Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift and Good Soil by Jeff Chu.

Kindle - I have Murder Most Royal by SJ Bennett. I love these books, but they’re bitter sweet as the Queen gets older.

Audio - The Parrot and the Igloo by Dave Lipsky - This book is fascinating. I am really into it.

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My May TBR

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