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Sunday Matters: Headed to Surgery

Sunday Matters

Last month I shared a Life Update and since then I’ve been anxiously waiting for these two surgeries to be scheduled. They are next week, 1/9 and 1/10. Cannot wait. It’s weird to be eager for brain surgery but let’s go.

These steroids to control swelling have kept me up for two weeks. No sleep but I am not even tired. Just a little on edge.

I would appreciate prayers heading into this, good thoughts, all of it. Prayers that it is benign. Smooth recovery and no complications. My daughter will be down for the surgeries but has to be back at school on 1/15.

In the meantime I’m reading and just resting. This last week a few more symptoms popped up. I’m isolating to avoid COVID too. That is the last thing I need.

Have a great weekend. It’s cold here but I am cozy and well.

Books Reviewed in 2023

This is a list of the books I read and reviewed in 2023.

Each link takes you directly to my review of that book. Happy New Year!

2023 Reviews

  1. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  2. The Deluge by Stephen Markley
  3. Exiles by Jane Harper
  4. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
  5. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
  6. All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
  7. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  8. The Last Word by Taylor Adams
  9. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
  10. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
  11. The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong
  12. The New Mother by Nora Murphy
  13. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  14. The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard
  15. The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
  16. The Block Party by Jamie Day
  17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
  18. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  19. Holly by Stephen King
  20. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  21. Save What’s Left by Elizabeth Castellano
  22. Perfectly Nice Neighbors by Kim Abdullah
  23. The Hike by Lucy Clarke
  24. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim