The Sunday Post #57 – Weekly Wrap-up
Welcome to my Sunday Post. Thank you to Kimba over at The Caffeinated Reviewer, who is hosting this weekly event. It is the perfect opportunity to share what happened here on my own blog, as well as some of the happenings elsewhere in the Blogosphere.
Last night, my oldest daughter and I went to a concert in the small local venue again, and we got to spend a fantastic evening listening to, singing along with, and dancing to Charlie Winston! It’s always lovely to spend an evening with my oldest, I’m so thankful to have a close and very friendly relationship with her. The concert was so good – Winston was in great form, and so was the audience! He even went off the stage and walked among the audience during one song – all on his own! And at one point, he talked about how the refugee crisis has touched him, and that we had to be able to see the mass of refugees as individuals so we wouldn’t be afraid of them. Just as he had to see us in the audience as individuals and not a mass of people. We also managed to be very close to the stage, which made our experience even better!
This week’s posts:
- [4 Nov] Waiting on Wednesday #70 – Hawke
- [5 Nov] Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #40 – Rock Chick Redemption
- [7 Nov] STS #108 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #58
- [8 Nov] The Sunday Post #57 – Charlie Winston!
This week’s reviews:
- [2 Nov] Love Evolution by Michelle Mankin ★★★★
- [3 Nov] Need by Joelle Charbonneau ★★★★
- [6 Nov] Friction by Sawyer Bennett ★★★★★
Elsewhere in the Blogosphere:
Aimee @ The Social Potato has a question this week: Do You Support Authors Whose Books You Didn’t Like?
Trish @ Between My Lines wonders about Questions at the End of Blog Posts.
Jenna @ Happy Indulgence shares Why She Reads Contemporaries.
Grace @ Rebel Mommy Bookblog shares Her Bad Habits.
Felicia @ The Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog has several Posts of Thanks coming up, where she thanks authors, narrators and bloggers who have touched her blogging and RL positively this year.
Lola @ Lola’s Reviews discusses Love Triangles.
What have you been up to this past week? Don’t forget to leave me a link so I can come visit your Sunday Post as well.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend, and that next week will be filled with awesome!
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
What fun for you and your daughter. It such a different experience in small venues like that – I love it. Have a great week Lexxie.
It was so, so good, Christy! And in a small venue everything just seems to be more intimate 🙂 We had a great evening, that’s for sure.
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Wow, looks like a great show. I agree, smaller venues are the best way to see live acts.
Great reviews of Need, I have that one to read next and have been looking forward to it, Glad it was good! 🙂
It was awesome 🙂 And I’m still in music-land this morning 🙂
I hope you’ll enjoy Need as much as I did, Greg!
Sounds like a great concert and a great night. 🙂
It was, Annemieke 🙂 We had a fantastic time.
Sounds like a great (and thought provoking) concert and of course wonderful to have that mother / daughter time!).
I really enjoy it when artists I love show another side to themselves like Winston did last night. The song he sang after talking about the refugees made me cry, it was so beautiful and sad.
Such a fun thing for you and your daughter to do together. I’m not familiar with the artist but I enjoyed the snippet I listened to. Sounds like such an intimate gig and I love that he shared so much with you all.
Thanks for sharing my link! Hope you have a great week.
It was really awesome, Trish! We had a great evening, and were ‘high’ on music for a while afterwards 🙂
It’s so nice hearing you and your daughter having such a great time together! I hope your relationship gets even closer day by day. 🙂
I think we’ll stay close, Mara 🙂 She’s 20 now, so basically an adult still living at home with us 🙂
Nothing like mom and daughter time! Glad u had fun! I’ll check out Lola’s post about love triangles! Thx for sharing 🙂
I agree, having some special times with just one of my kids is awesome 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Daniela!
The show looks like it was a great time. I hope my daughter and I will do awesome stuff like that when she gets old enough!! Thanks for the shout out! Have a great week!
It was a really, really good time, Grace 🙂 And I hope you’ll find some fun and awesome thing to have in common as your daughter grows as well!
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I would go to more concerts if we had more at smaller venues around here. I’m not a fan of big crowds. Glad you had fun.
I totally understand, Melanie 🙂 The smaller venues are so nice! I do go to bigger concerts, too, but then I pay extra to have a designated seat so I don’t get that ‘crushed’ feeling I sometimes get in big crowds 🙂
What a fun concert and a fun time with your daughter! I hadn’t heard of Charlie Winston but I enjoyed the videos. It’s definitely fun to be able to share things with your daughter! I used to go thrift store shopping with mine a lot before she left for school and it was such fun! Have a great week!
He’s very well known in France and Switzerland, but not so much elsewhere, I don’t think. He’s a brit, so when he talks, he has that gorgeous accent 😉
It’s always nice to have some fun activities to do with our kids!
that awesome that you and your daughter have such a close relationship, I am the same way with my mom and love it <3 the concert really looked like a lot of fun!
I have that kind of relationship with my mom, too, and with my sister as well. It’s nice to be close to our family 🙂
It has been too long since I attended a concert…I still recall the surge of energy and the thrill of it, of course. We have a great venue for concerts not too far from where I live, so I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled in the next few weeks to see what’s coming for New Year’s.
Enjoy your week….and thanks for visiting my blog.
Yes! The surge of energy is always something that touches me, and I love music, so seeing an artist I enjoy live is a treat 🙂
I hope you’ll find something nice for New Year’s, Laurel-Rain 🙂
Wow, that sounds like a great show and what a nice artist. It is nice you have such a good relationship with your oldest, you’re fortunate.
Have a good week!
It was a great show, and what he said is so true! All those refugees are human beings who are being forced to flee from their house, their hometown and their country. It’s hard to understand just how difficult that must be. I can’t imagine trekking across several countries with my children and a few belongings just to try to reach somewhere we could feel safe!
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I am glad to hear you had fun at the cocnert, must be nice to do things like that together with your daughter! And standing close to the podium must make the experience even better.
Thanks for linking to my post about love triangles! Have a great week Lexxie!
Yeah, being so close felt like he was singing just to us 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Lola!
That’s great you had a good time at the concert, and that you have a close relationship with your daughter. My mom and I are very close too.
It’s so nice to hear that you and your mom are close, Lauren! I have a great relationship with my mom, too, and I love that we have that 🙂
I am glad you and your daughter had a blast at the concert! My mom and I have a very friendly relationship as well and I consider her one of my best friends 🙂
Yes for close friendships between mothers and daughters, Sarah!
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So happy you and your daughter had a lovely time at the concert. My girls are my best friends as adults and I love it. I read some of the posts you recommended but will check the ones I missed. Hope this week rocks for you Lexxie!
I think being best friends between mothers and daughters is so amazing, Kim! Having something special to do together at occasion is awesome, too.
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I am more likely to go to a play or reading (like David Sedaris) because otherwise I get bored with music. I always think, would it be bad if I read during this? Glad you had fun though.
LOL it would probably be difficult to read in the dark during a concert, Steph 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
I love your post… thank you for sharing your concert fun with your oldest kidlet. I always forget that some of us, meaning YOU, are in places on the opposite side of the world, and have completely different current events affecting your lives than we do. This is the second time I’ve heard mention of the refugees coming across but I’m actually clueless what is going on. And that is a truly sad statement. I really need to get up to speed on what’s going on around the world…
On a much happier note – WOOT! Sawyer Bennett rocks! I need to get back to her books 😉
Seriously, have a great week, girl!! 🙂
I think it’s normal that we know quite a bit about what’s happening in our own region, and less about what happens elsewhere in the world, Kristin. Refugees are arriving here in Geneva, too, and we have donated a lot of children’s clothes since it gets very cold here in the winter, and a lot of people only had a backpack with their most prized possessions when they arrived.
Sawyer Bennet definitely rocks! I hope you’ll get a chance to pick up more of her books soon 🙂
Yay for fun evenings with family! I’m not a fan of crowds, so a concert wouldn’t be tops on my list of things to do, but if my kids wanted to see say, Alice Cooper, I ‘d go! 😀
LOL Alice Cooper!!! I haven’t heard his name in a while 🙂 Small concert venues are great, because even if it’s a bit crowded, it’s not like the huge concerts where I don’t want to be crushed.
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Oh the concert with your daughter sounds like such a nice evening! I’m.not a concert person, but family time is always a plus 🙂 How’d your writing go? I hope you made some good progress so end of semester won’t be too stressful! Hugs 🙂
I did make progress on my writing, but I haven’t finished my whole paper. I need to sort out my thoughts a bit more first 🙂
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I know she is only 8 but I have a very close relationship with my daughter, we love to do things together and she is a wonderful shopping buddy. I am glad you had a nice night out with your daughter.
Have a great week, Lexxie! Happy Reading! ox
I have a very close relationship with my other kids, too, Michelle, and my youngest is 10, so it’s great to see that you have that with J already 🙂
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That is so neat that you have that with your daughter plus amazing music! Family and tunes. Good stuff.
Yes, Robyn, Music!! We had a great evening 🙂
Sounds like you had a fun night at the concert. Hope you have a great week!
Thanks, Yvonne.
Sounds like you had a fun time. I keep checking our local venues for some performances. It is always nice to have a small venue and the artist can be more laid back instead of worrying about a huge production. Hope you have a great week!
Yes, smaller venues are much cozier 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Kathy.
Looks like you both had a wonderful time. I like smaller venues too and would go more often if it were less crowded and had easier access.
We’re so lucky, because this small venue is in walking distance from our house, so it makes it really easy to go if there’s an artist we enjoy coming 🙂
The concert looked like it was lots of fun! I bet it was twice the fun hanging out with your daughter!
Yeah, it was awesome to share with my daughter, and we had a fantastic evening, Jessica.
That sounds so fun. So happy you and your daughter had such a great time.
Thanks, Jennifer 🙂 it was definitely a great evening in her company – and Charlie Winston’s 😉
Glad to hear you have a great relationship with your daughter. I am blessed to have a great relationship with both my daughter and my mom.
That’s great, Nise’! Good relationships across generations are awesome 🙂
Omigosh, Lexxie! He sounds amazing! I’m so happy you and #1 got to see Charlie together. It is so nice to have a close-knit family, isn’t it? Sky and I went to see A Silent Film a few weeks ago and it was great. I hope to continue doing things like that with her. OH, we’re seeing MuteMath in April!! Woohoo! Thanks for sharing the videos. I hope your weekend was wonderfully relaxing…or at least wonderful! 😉
**BIG HUGS**
He is truly amazing, Brandee! And it was so nice to be able to see him in concert. #1 and I also decided that we’ll have to find an artist so we can bring #4 along next time to have a real girls night out 🙂
Having a close-knit family is the best! I love that we do so many different things together, and I love that you have the same thing with your family, Brandee 🙂
My weekend was quite relaxing, and definitely wonderful 🙂 *BIG HUGS*
Looks like you had a fantastic time at your concert, it is so good you have a close relationship with your eldest, I hope I do I have the same relationship with my eldest once she has got past her horrible pre-teen years!!
Have a good week!
We certainly did, Heather! Pre-teen is luckily somewhat worse than actual teen years IMO… I still have a 10-y-o daughter too, and she’s acting out a bit these days 😀 I’m sure all will be god between you and your daughter as she grows up a bit.
Glad you enjoyed the concert! I have been to quite a few in the past three months or so, and I have really developed an appreciation for live music! Have a good week!
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I love live music, it’s like I have a date with my favorite artists 🙂