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  I am linking up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for Happy Homemaker Monday!  Before I begin, I had a really great surprise on Friday.  My boss called me and told me that my yearly raise is 3x bigger than I thought it was going to be.  I was also given a promotion.  AND my yearly bonus is going to be larger than anticipated too!  Good news is few and far between lately! So I had to share.  I am always talking about the negative (since that is all there has been for a long time) so time for some happier things.  I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  I was up all Friday night with my bum shoulder. (SEE?  There's that bad stuff I"m always talking about lol)  I can't describe the pain - but it is up there with child birth and gall stones.  I finally fell asleep around 11 a.m. and slept til 6 p.m.  So Saturday was pretty much gone.  Sunday I worked OT for 4.5 hours, moved the furniture around, swept the living r...

  I am joining in with  Kimberly @caffeinated book reviewer for the Sunday Post  I am also joining in with The Book Date for  "It's Monday! What are YOU Reading?"   LAST WEEK ON THE BLOG: Last week I posted Happy Homemaker Monday and Sunday Post/What Are You Reading ?                                NEXT WEEK ON THE BLOG: This week I plan to post this post, of course, along with my weekly Happy Homemaker Monday and I hope to do a review of "Evelina" and perhaps another weekly meme if I can find one that applies to me!  WHAT I READ LAST WEEK:  Last week I finished:                  Too Late by Colleen Hoover   I love Colleen Hoover - but I did not love this book.  Too many "F" bombs and too many unneeded sex scenes for my taste.  Still give it *** for the story.  From Amazon:   Sloan will go thr...

  I am linking up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for Happy Homemaker Monday!  The weather:::    Still awful and boring.  Ranging from upper 20s to upper 40s.  A little rain.  Cold enough to keep the sidewalks icy so I can fear for my life.  On my reading pile:::    I finished the audio book Heartbreak Bay by Rachel Caine.  It was gory and serial killerish but awesome.       " EVELINA " BY FRANCES BURNEY - About 1/3 of the way through this book.  Really enjoying it.   Also reading " WHO PUT THIS SONG ON " BY MORGAN PARKER. just started this one - it's for my work book club this month.  so far it is really good.  i'll do a review once i'm finished.    What I did not finish::: Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney.  I listened to about 25% of the audio book (a good two hours) and could NOT get into it!   Current Audiobook:::  Colleen Hoover's "Too La...

  I am joining in with  Kimberly @caffeinated book reviewer for the Sunday Post  I am also joining in with The Book Date for  "It's Monday! What are YOU Reading?"   LAST WEEK ON THE BLOG:   Happy Homemaker Monday with Diary of a SAHM  My NEW MASTER LIST of Classic Novels for the Classic's Club  F is for Friday                                NEXT WEEK ON THE BLOG: Happy Homemaker Monday The Sunday Post and What Are You Reading Book Review of "Reminders of Him" by Colleen Hoover (see below)  WHAT I READ LAST WEEK:  Last week I listened to the audio book "Reminders of Him" by Colleen Hoover"  and "Heartbreak Bay" by Rachel Caine.    WHAT I AM READING RIGHT NOW:  Right now I am reading    " WHO PUT THIS SONG ON " BY MORGAN PARKER.  Right now I am listening to the audio book: "Too Late" by Colleen Hoover CURRENT CLASSIC FOR ...

  today i am joining in for the first time with f is for friday, hosted by nomadic worlds I'm really excited to be participating with F is for Friday!  Who doesn't love Fridays?   my latest book obsession:    cLASSICS!  i'M OBSESSED WITH CLASSIC NOVELS.  i RE-JOINED THE CLASSICS CLUB AND I AM FINALLY IN A PLACE IN MY LIFE WHERE I CAN TAKE MY TIME AND ENJOY THEM.  BOOK I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS WEEKEND: i'LL BE READING " EVELINA " BY FRANCES BURNEY  AS WELL AS " who put this song on " by morgan parker.  FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK:  FIVE THINGS I'M HAPPY/GRATEFUL FOR THIS WEEK:  1. The weekend 2. books 3. my cats 4. bible study 5. podcasts

  Before I begin - CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS BOX OF VINTAGE BOOKS WAS PURCHASED FOR $15 IN 2021????????  Unimaginable!  I am delving back in to the Classics Club.   I joined back in 2018 and was not in the right frame of mind.  My mother had just passed, my sister had a near death illness, I had depression.  More recently I had COVID and long lasting aftereffects, heart issues, and 2 surgeries.   HOWEVER!  Now I am ready to give my full attention to these amazing books!  I'm finally of the mind of quality over quantity.   I started reading Evelina by Frances Burney a few nights ago after a rave Instagram review by @a.literary.lady I am enjoying it so far.  It is a bit reminiscent of Jane Austen.  I am not going to rush or put a time frame on any of the classics.  If it takes two months to read one book - it does!  I work from  home doing computer-type work so during 9-5 I will listen to other genres on audio...

  This is my NEW UPDATED master list of the 52 classics that I plan to read between January 1st, 2022 and December 31st, 2026. The ones marked with a * will be rereads.  Some I read as a child/teen and a couple are my favorites that I would love to re-read with fresh eyes!  Classics Club   THE LIST  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte* Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll* The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank* Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne  The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway Siddhartha, Herman Hesse Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston Selected Poems by Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nests, Ken Kesey The Call of the Wild, Jack London*  Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Rilla of Inglesid...