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Sunday Matters: And Just Like That, Christmas Is Over and 2022 is Here

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Sunday Matters

The holidays sneak up on us every year but this year it seemed to come and go so quickly. That’s what happens when you only see your kids for a short while and everything hangs on that visit. I am so glad that they could both be here for a little while.

My son was with us for a week but left on Christmas Eve to return to his cat Root Beer and his AmeriCorps gig. Good timing because his little town in Kansas has been below 10 degrees for their high and although Root Beer was feral, it’s too cold for her. Luckily while he was gone the temps were mild.

Right Now:

Student ministry is breaking until January 9th so I have my Sunday mornings to lounge around and be lazy.

This Week:

I have off until 1/10 so I have one last week to enjoy. My daughter leaves on 1/16 so she has some time to hang out as well. All I have this week is book club and I just remembered it. I suppose I should read the book, Migrations.

Migrations

Reading:

I will be reading the above for book club but I selected my first book of the year as well so I will be piggy-backing this one with that one. More to come on that.

Watching:

I sipped the Squid Game Kool-Aid and now I am hooked.

Grateful for:

  • A nice warm house to cozy up in. It’s been so cold here.
  • My time off. I do love this time of the year.

Have a wonderful Sunday and great week! Happy New Year!

Bookish Talk, Lists

Books Reviewed in 2021

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This is a list of the books I read and reviewed in 2021. What a year this was!! All the time to read and yet so difficult to focus. I still managed to hit my reading goal though and did manage to read some really good books.

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

2021 Reviews

  1. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  2. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  3. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
  4. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
  5. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
  6. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  7. Are We There Yet? by Kathleen West
  8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
  10. The Distant Dead by Heather Young
  11. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  12. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  13. Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson
  14. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
  15. First Person Singular – Stories by Haruki Murakami
  16. Watching You by Lisa Jewell
  17. Brat: An 80’s Story by Andrew McCarthy
  18. The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder
  19. Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
  20. When The Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
  21. Outlawed by Anna North
  22. The New Neighbors by Simon Lelic
  23. We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker
  24. Vera by Carol Edgarian
  25. Promises to Keep by Nan Rossiter
  26. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
  27. Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks
  28. Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
  29. The Push by Ashley Audrain
  30. Broken by Jenny Lawson
  31. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  32. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
  33. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley
  34. People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
  35. Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster
  36. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
  37. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  38. Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
  39. Falling by T.J. Newman
  40. Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
  41. Count The Ways by Joyce Maynard
  42. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  43. Where The Truth Lies by Anna Bailey
  44. The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding
  45. Billy Summers by Stephen King
  46. Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  47. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
  48. We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
  49. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
  50. The Family Plot by Megan Collins
  51. Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
  52. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewel
  53. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
  54. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  55. The Guide by Peter Heller
  56. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
  57. The Stowaway by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
  58. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
  59. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
  60. Dune by Frank Herbert