The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
What happened this week?
I hope you all had a nice Christmas if you celebrated. For me this was a nice and relaxing week and I still got some work done as well. I took a few days off this week around Christmas. I made plenty of time to relax by reading, gaming and I continued on my jigsaw puzzle that I hadn’t worked on for a while. We visited my boyfriend’s parents for Christmas, unpacked presents and had a nice dinner.
I also got a bit of blogging done this week. And I did a bit of work on some days, which also was nice after all the time off. There was some assistant work I did a few hours of and some Lola’s Blog Tours work, three media kits for tours starting on 6 January went out and I picked the winners of my Christmas giveaway. It was nice to have such a leisurely week.
I also got some baking and cooking done. I made another Babka (sweet bread) with chocolate filling and it turned out great. Picture below. And for my boyfriend I made some glazed ham. Recipes for both will be on my blog next year. I already wrote and scheduled those.
What did I read this week?
Love, Lies and Hocus Pocus: Identity was another great read in this series, although the pacing felt a bit slow at times. The ending was action packed and filled with reveals and interesting developments. I DNF’d Magic Destiny as it wasn’t grabbing me. Write, Publish, Promote with Ellie and Amy was a short read with some tips for authors, some good information, but for me personally not much new information and I thought it could’ve profited from some organization as now it mostly was a randomly organized list of tips. I also finished another story in Pets in Space 4, which was a fun one.
Food Corner
For this week’s food corner instead of sharing a recipe I wanted to ask you to share a recipe with me. A recipe you enjoy making or a recipe you think I might enjoy. Bonus if you have a link to share so I can check it out.
This week I blogged about:
– Review: Stitches and Witches by Nancy Warren
– Review: The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year by H.Y. Hanna
– Review: Street Smart by Teyla Branton
What to expect next week on the blog:
– Lola’s Ramblings: Best Books of 2019
– Review: Lost Flyght by S.J. Pajonas
– Review: Druid Vices and a Vodka by Annette Marie
Tours open for sign-up on Lola’s Blog Tours:
– Review Opportunity: Brimstone by Justine Rosenberg
– Review Opportunity: The Christmas Walk Caper by JB Michaels
– Blog Tour: A Player Romance series by Mika Lane – 6 till 19 January
– Blog Tour: Seneca Element by Rayya Deeb – 6 till 24 January
– Blog Tour: You Too? by Janet Gurtler – 6 till 24 January
– Blog Tour: The Incarn Saga by Katharine E. Wibell – 20 January till 2 February
Book Haul:
I got Druid Vices and a Vodka for review. I plan to start reading this one tpday, it’s the next book in a series I like so I hope this one is another great read.
Glad you had a lovely, restful Christmas with visits to your boyfriend’s family, some fun activities, and good foods. I had a good Christmas going to my husband’s family for dinner and a hilarious White Elephant gift exchange.
Nice bit of reading done. Glad most of them were good even if you had to set one aside. I was able to get to some I wanted to read earlier this year which was great. I’m hoping to get through a few older series this year and stay on top of the new releases I snagged for review.
Have a Happy New Year, Lola!
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Sounds like you had a good Christmas as well. I had to look up the term White Elephant gift exchange as I hadn’t heard of that before, sounds like fun.
It was too bad about the DNF, but luckily the others were good.
I am glad that you had some days off Lola! And I see that you are reading Annette marie’s book! That’s my recent discovery thanks to Raven and Jen 😉
I really enjoy this series by Annette Marie. I haven’t read any of her earlier books, but this series and the spin-off are awesome. Glad to hear you recently discovered her books :). Which of her books did you read so far?
We had a lovely relaxing Christmas week, too and I’m looking forward to next week being just as stress-free. I love getting organised and having blog posts already written and scheduled to go, so I’ll be using next week to read and writing up some reviews.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your week, Lola.
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Flora x
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I am glad to hear you had a nice relaxing Christmas and I hope this week was relaxing too.
It’s such a great feeling to have some blog posts already written and scheduled to go. I hope you got a bunch of those reviews written!
We have a delicious honey and pineapple glazed ham every year for Christmas lunch (and for the rest of the week).
I’ve always meant to make a Babka, but we had chocolate pudding for Christmas this year. Later today I’ll be making a Vanilla Slice for my son for his birthday, he doesn’t like cake!
Wishing you a great reading week and a Happy New Year
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That sounds like an interesting flavor combination for a glaze.
Oh chocolate pudding sounds good too. Babka is a pain to make, but it’s so good! I hope your vanilla slice turns out well!
Your sweet bread looks really good. I love ham but haven’t picked up one in a while. I made steaks for dinner for Christmas. Those were really good.
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The sweet bread turned out really good! That’s great your steaks for Christmas turned out well.
I really need to cook more in 2020. I’m not great at it, but I want to find healthier, easy recipes that will work for me and my schedule/life. I’m glad you had a nice, relaxing Christmas!
Happy New Year.
-lauren
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I hope you can get around to cooking more 2020 and find recipes that work for your schedule and life.
OOO Druid Vices and a Vodka I keep watching for the next audiobook. Gads, I love the series and hope Tantor is still doing them. Glad you had a lovely holiday and got your tour kits off. Have a Happy New Year Lola!
I really enjoy that series, Druid Vices and a Vodka was awesome. I hope you can listen to the rest of the series. I plan to maybe re-read them in audio later.
I am so glad that you managed to have some serious R & R over the Christmas break:). A very Happy New Year to you, Lola.
Thanks! It was really nice to have some extra time off to relax this week. Happy new year to you too!
I’m glad you had a good Christmas and I wish you a Happy New Year, too! I don’t have any recipes to recommend that I could link to or anything. I feel like a lot of what I make are standards in this house, to the point that I made them up or have them memorized. I want to make more things in 2020, though! Hopefully we can both find some new recipes to try this year!
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Thanks! I had a good new year too. I have a bunch of my recipes memorized as well, although I still have them written down somewhere usually. I hope you get around to trying some new things in 2020, I am looking forward to hear what you’ll try out. I plan to find some new recipes again to try out in 2020 to 🙂