I mentioned in my last post that my reading has been a bit on the slow side but I do have a good variety of books keeping me busy at the moment and I wanted to chat about those for a bit.

First is Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová. This is a short novel but it feels like there is a lot going on as it is mainly about the experiences of Elza and Ian, a young couple living in an apartment complex outside of Bratislava. There are odd neighbors, and lots of noises. The couple feels trapped in their neighborhood but at the same time they seem to just waste their time in cafes. Will definitely be curious to see how this one develops.

Next up is The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. As part of the Classics Spin I meant to read The Garden Party but what I didn’t realize was that it was a short story. I did read it and loved it but now I want to read the other stories in the collection so that’s why this one is on my nightstand.

This morning I started The Surveyors by Mary Jo Salter. Oddly enough one of the poems is titled Bratislava. What are the chances of Bratislava coming up in two of my current reads? I love it when there are little synchronicities in our reading. Anyway, this collection of poems is really enjoyable and feels easy to connect to.

Finally, my evening read (not pictured because it’s on my Kindle) is The Child by Fiona Barton and it’s the story of an old house being demolished and what is found underneath. I’m still very much in the early stages of this thriller but I’m in. If I remember correctly this one has been a favorite around the blogosphere right?

Let me know if you’ve hard of some of these, or read them, and what you think.

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend. It was a quiet one around here and nothing wrong with that. I got a chance to pick up some pretty papers at JoAnns. I know, I don’t need to be buying more paper but I can’t resist sometimes. I did quite a bit of reading for my HR coursework and I also managed to finish a book. My fun reading seems to be going at a snail’s pace recently but I’ve got some good books on the nightstand so I’m happy about that.

We were going to go to the annual Spring plant flower sale at the Wildflower Center but a lot of stuff is coming back from last year’s planting efforts so we decided to wait and see how things look later in the Fall and maybe we’ll catch the sale that happens at that time.

You can see lots of color in our backyard. The mini roses towards the back (we’ve had those for several years) are blooming and I’m loving the yellow Coreopsis flowers. Unfortunately I think our Mexican Butterfly Weed didn’t make it through the cold temps we had earlier this year. Bummer. On the other side of the yard is our succulents area and that is looking great too.

On the television front, we really want to catch up with the newest season of Bosch but we are waiting until we can finish Fortitude or otherwise we’ll just do a binge watch of Bosch and forget about anything else. I am also interested in The Terror based on the Dan Simmons novel (which I have not read) but being that it’s also an arctic setting then I think we’ll save that for the summer when I know we’ll be wishing we were in the arctic! Ha.

That’s about it around here lately. I hope you have a great start to the week and more book talk soon!