Sundays with Sam is a combination of Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews.
My Week in Review
Happy Sunday! I hope everyone had a great week. I feel so behind because I was sick this week. It started last Saturday with the drip, then the sore throat, and by Wednesday, I was dying! I did nothing but read today as I am still convalescing. I hope this is my one summer cold for the year.
Today, we have our last show of the season - Beautiful. My daughter took me to see this back in 2019 when it was still on Broadway. Vanessa Carlton played the leading role. She is one of my daughter's favorite musical artists. It's a great show. How can you go wrong with Carole King music.
I scheduled a vacation day tomorrow. I am getting my hair done, going big, paying to have it colored. I saw this reel of a woman who let her hair grow out. It took two years! I thought she looked great with the grey hair though. So tempting. Hopefully I will have the rest of the day to catch up.
On the Blog
Let's Discuss
- AJ shares some books with great plot twists
- Jen wants to know if Colleen Hoover is not writing a new book
Stacking the Shelves
Such a great haul! I am always ready for a new Cotugno book and I am interested in seeing what she does with a sports romance rom-com. Wiesner dazzled me with her last book, so I grabbed her new one when I saw it Read Now on Netgalley. I was excited about my invite since that book is on my TBR. I do have quite a few July books, so I have to see how I am doing before I download.
Netgalley/Edelweiss
- Heavy Hitter by Katie Cotugno
- Wish I Were Here by Melissa Wiesner
Invites
- Take Me Home by Melanie Sweeney
Read Last Week
My week started off with a five-star book and was solid thereafter. Though I feel many could appreciate and enjoy I Hope This Finds You Well, I feel office workers will really relate. It was hilarious and poignant, and I loved it.
Find all my reviews on Goodreads
Books
- I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue - ★★★★★
- The Lights of Sugarberry Cove by Heather Webber - ★★★★ 1/2
- Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North - ★★★★
- Finding Mr. Write by Kelly Armstrong - ★★★★ 1/2
- Point of Origin by Rebecca Yarros - ★★★★
Audiobooks
- Summer After Summer by Lauren Bailey - ★★★★
Currently Reading
It's so much fun to be back with the Guncle. Patrick continues to make me laugh. Not far into This Disaster Loves You, but I have to get it done. The library wants it back.
- This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper
- The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley (audiobook)
To Be Read
- Pride & Preston Lin by Christina Hwang Dudley
- Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong
- What's in a Kiss? by Lauren Kate
- Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne
Let us know in the comments!
Ugh, sorry to hear you've been sick, Sam. How miserable. Some women look so fabulous letting their natural gray grow out. I would just look washed out. I'm so pale that I need some color. I LOVED Point of Origin.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would look bad, but this woman had darker hair than me and it grew in so great. I going to get my hair dyed as close to my natural color as possible tomorrow and see how it plays out. I am surprised you find it washes you out because you have light hair to start with. I think blondes tend to grey better than hair as dark as mine. Maybe I go grey and do the old lady rinses. HA
DeleteI am sorry to learn that you were so sick this week! And now I am curious about your new color and haircut Sam!
ReplyDeleteThe haircut is always the same, just varies with length. I hope to get a color as close to natural as possible to see how the grey comes in
DeleteOh no hope you are feeling better! Ugh. I hate being sick in warm weather too. Seems to me that's the worst, I don't even know why. I hope you had a wonderful time at Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, I am going to live. We had to skip the play because my father was very sick. We are going to try and see it in a few weeks as a "missed show".
DeleteI hate a summer cold, ugh! So sorry you're having to suffer through it! Hope you feel better. I got most of the Instagram bands, but I couldn't figure out Bush! One of my favorite bands in the past, too. I'm not ready to let my hair go gray. It would be just on top, in the front and I think it would look odd. The rest of my hair is dark brown. It's a pain dying it all the time, though. Maybe someday? I'm looking forward to Finding Mr. Write since I love Kelley Armstrong. I have Lenny Marks too. I hope we both love it!
ReplyDeleteThe worst part, I gave my father my cold (confirmed, Rhinovirus) and he's in the hospital with pneumonia now. The doctor said the common cold is worst since Covid because of all the isolation and masking that weakened our immunity. A lot of my mom's friends have been getting pneumonia, too. Wonder if they all had a cold first? Good job with the bands. I did get them all. Early 90s was when I was in college and listening to all those bands. When my roots come in, it's grey everywhere! I know Karen was growing hers out. She needs to do an update.
DeleteOMG, summer colds are the worst! I hope you're on the mend now. I've been unintentionally growing my grey out, because I'm too scared to color it myself and too cheap to get it done professionally! I'm not 100% grey, but pretty close. And I've gotten comments on it (good ones, but still - doesn't feel great to have it pointed out!). I just don't want to get mistaken for Henry's grandma!
ReplyDeleteThe worst part is how many different things you think you have when it's just a cold. I was seeing posts from women over a decade younger than me. It's gets tiring to keep dying. I have had grey for almost 30 years. We need to remove the stigma. I have to say, you look good in all the pictures you post.
DeleteAww, thanks, Sam, that's so sweet of you to say! I've been going grey since college, so about 20 years now, and it does get tiring keeping up with coloring it.
DeleteHope you love the way your hair turned out and had a great time at the show!
ReplyDeleteWe had to cancel the show because my dad was sick, but the hair went well
DeleteHope you are feeling better. My grandson came over a couple of weeks ago with a cold and I got it. No fun.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mary. Definitely no fun, and the doctors are saying the Rhino virus is stronger since covid. I was knocked out by it.
DeleteI hope you're feeling better and the hair dying goes well. I used to dye my hair all sorts of colors. It was blue and purple for a while. Now I'm too tired to constantly get it redyed, and my job has a dress code, so no more fun.
ReplyDeleteI never did the "fun" colors. It was all about covering grey, but my daughter does pink.
DeleteI hope you're out of the woods by now and your dad is starting to feel better (I saw your reply above). Hair dyeing is a pain in the ass but I don't plan on going grey EVER. It's not a stigma thing - it's a me thing.
ReplyDeleteThey are sending him home with oxygen today. Hopefully the pneumonia clears up quickly. HA! There are a lot of people who will dye till they die.
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