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Sunday Matters

This week has been great. No rushing around! For once, my calendar was wide open and it felt so good. Reading, cuddles with the pup, watching Broadway performances that my daughter wanted me to see on YouTube. Pleasant.

Winter Formal was yesterday so maybe I will have a pic to share later. I don’t know about you moms with teens but my teen is very choosy about which photos she allows me to share.

Right Now:

I am getting ready to head out for high school ministry. I have it in my head to cook breakfast today but we’ll see if it happens. Usually I just grab a piece of toast with peanut butter but don’t you love a good breakfast?

This Week:

My daughter starts a college class this Monday (Sign Language) so that she can hopefully attend a summer theater intensive in NY/NJ this summer. Since she chose not to do The Little Mermaid, she has evenings to attend this class which counts for two years of language. My son took the class when he was in high school and said it was pretty decent.

High School ministry has a Galentine’s event that I will try to attend this Thursday. On Valentine’s Day, my daughter’s choir will be doing singing telegrams but The Hub and I will most likely order in because going out on THE day, a Friday no less, will be impossible.

On Saturday, we hope to meet the boy in Santa Barbara for a meal and to catch-up a little. Santa Barbara is about 1.5 hours for each of us so it’s the middle ground and a great place to meet. We are looking forward to it.

Reading:

I finished Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman. I should have the review up this week. I enjoyed it a lot but I could not shake the feeling that I’ve read the story before. Every time I turned the page I got a sense of deja vu.

I am combing through all my review copies and library books to see what my next read will be. I want to keep up this reading pace so it needs to be something super compelling. Suggestions?

Watching:

I noticed that Center Stage is back on Netflix. Have you seen that gem? My daughter and I are going to watch it again soon but tonight we will sit on the couch and watch all the Oscar fanfare.

New Things I’ve Tried:

I’ve been supplementing my food with organic, plant-based protein powders mixed into almond milk. Nutritionally, I am a little deficient. I can tell from the low energy so hopefully a little nutritional boost will do me good.

Grateful for:

The YouVersion Bible app. I am in this app daily.
Smart TV’s and the ability to cast content from my phone to them.
The opportunity to share books with others. I am not a big purchaser of books but lately, I’ve been picking up used copies so I can share them with others.

That’s all I’ve got. How have you all been doing? The political news I’ve been forced to endure (I am on social media for work) has been too much. I wish I could completely remove it from my life. From the comments I’ve seen from some of you I think you feel the same way.

What Rose Forgot
By Nevada Barr
Minotaur Books, 9781250207135, September 2019, 304pp.

The Short of It:

Not sure what I read.

The Rest of It:

It’s quite possible that my review copy (ebook) was not quite finished or was missing key pieces because no matter how carefully I read, the story was disjointed. Very disjointed. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it if it’s a book you’ve read.

From what I could gather, Rose wakes up in a hospital unit which specializes in Alzheimer’s. She is heavily drugged and overhears the nurses talking about how she “might not make it” and from the comments she overhears, she can tell that no one really cares if she does. She decides to make her escape.

This is where it gets fuzzy. She leaves because she does not have Alzheimer’s and fears for her life but no where in the version I read does it explain why someone put her there. However, her escape and how she manages to turn the tables is quite entertaining. She enlists her sister and her young, thirteen-year-old granddaughter to help her and this kid is delightful.

As you can tell, I don’t think I can accurately review this book because it seriously feels as if chapters were missing. Looking at the print there doesn’t appear to be any obvious issues. No dangling sentences or encrypted anything but the story made absolutely no sense.

Has anyone read it? If so, and you happened to review it, send me the link and I will include the link here.

Source: Review copy provided by the publisher.
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