Sundays with Sam - The Sunday Post

Sundays with Sam is a combination of Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

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My Week in Review

Here we are - the last Sunday of January. This month went fast! It was brutal cold, so I am not sad to say goodbye. 

Last week, we had the holiday on Monday which means I had to switch my in-office days around to make the three day requirement. I was going to do Tuesday - Thursday, but when I was checking the weather Wednesday morning, it was 5 degrees. I couldn't do it. Maybe 12 doesn't sound much better, but it's technically warmer. I saw a 30 degree morning in the forecast this week - HEAT WAVE! 

It was a lot of the same old, same old for me. Work, clean, read. 

For people who read on Kindle, did your "return to library" option disappear? Mine did. I found a post where the "remove from library" takes its place. I have not tried it. I have just been returning the books from my Amazon account, but I was curious if this has happened to anyone else. It seems to be a thing on newer Kindles because my daughter still have the "return to library" option. 

On the Blog

• Monday: Reviews - If Tomorrow Never Comes, Wreck My Plans
• Tuesday: TTT - New Additions
• Wednesday: CWW - Life Hacks for a Little Alien, The Memo
• Thursday: Reviews - The Housekeeper and the Professor, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
• Friday: Spell the Month in Books - January 2025
• Saturday: Five on My TBR - Starts with "D"

Let's Discuss

• Dini talks bookish trends of 2024
• Heather wonders if you talk about books in real life

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Stacking the Shelves

I am overwhelmed with invites this week, and some are books from my TBR which is great. I have to check my numbers because so many months are already maxed out (8 ARCs), but I really want some of these. Decisions, decisions. 

I clicked a bunch of free books this week. Obviously, I had to have the book with the cats on the cover, and I clicked two of the Moo U books. I have read a few of those but wasn't going to download them all. I like Snowe and Snowballed sounded good to me. 

Netgalley/Edelweiss

• Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney

Invites

• Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings
• My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero
• Fan Service by Rosie Danan
• For the Record by Emma Lord
• 91-Day Sanction by George Veck
• Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo
• Maine Characters by Hannah Orenstein

Purchased/Free

• Zen Wisdom From Cats: The Tao of Purrs by Nala Bronte
• Holdout by Jacqueline Snowe
• Snowballed by Melanie Ting

Read Last Week

I was worried about my TBR this week as some of the books had some lower ratings, but I liked them all. 

I almost DNFed You Between the Lines because the character kept raging about "straight white males" and "white male authors". I just have a thing about white people raging about white people. But then something happened. She stopped doing that, and the story was great. 

My favorite of the week was The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen. This was a really lovely story about grief, loss, and remembering our dearly departed. As with a lot of the Asian Lit I have been enjoying, this story episodic with a touch of magic. All the stories were touching, but the last two had me in tears. They went above and beyond and really hit me in my feels. 

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Books

• You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon - ★★★★ 1/2
• Christmas Is All Around by Martha Waters - ★★★★
• The Memo by Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling - ★★★★
• The Curious Kitten at Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi - ★★★★★
• The Crescent Moon Tea Room by Stacy Sivinski - ★★★★

Audiobooks

• The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows - ★★★★

Currently Reading

• Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

To Be Read

• Pick-Up by Nora Dahlia
• The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
• One Night, Two Holidays by Ali Brady
• Scot and Bothered by Alexandra Kiley

How was your week?
Let us know in the comments!