The Sunday Post #66 – 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. This week the weather has been weird, either it has been snowing – big, fat, wet flakes – or it’s been sunny but cold. I really enjoy winter when we get some snow, and seeing the sun again after weeks of rain is definitely refreshing!
I’m pretty exhausted after my first week back to work, even if my two classes have mostly really sweet students, and they are calm and attentive. My own kids are tired, too, it was hard to get up early and get ready in just a short time in the morning, but hopefully, we’ve all caught the right rhythm now for the following weeks.
I’ve been able to do some coloring this week, too, while listening to an audiobook, and I really enjoy my mandala book of coloring – what do you think?
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- [17 Jan] The Sunday Post #66 – King Winter has Arrived
- [11 Jan] Wicked Lust by Sawyer Bennett ★★★★★
- [12 Jan] This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp ★★★★
- [13 Jan] Dirty English by Ilsa Madden-Mills ★★★★
- [14 Jan] Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews ★★★★½
- [15 Jan] Tackling the Tight End by Tara Lain ★★★★
Grace @ Rebel Mommy Book Blog Read a Book, and She Liked it!
Jaz @ Fiction in Fiction in Fiction is celebrating her 3rd blogoversary, and there are giveaways! Counting… One, Two, THREE
Anna @ Herding Cats and Burning Soup explains Why it isn’t a 5 Star Review… When it isn’t.
Aentee @ The Social Potato discusses Do Truly Original Books Exist?
And I’m going to do something I don’t normally do today… I’m going to pimp a book, actually. I’m a huge Michelle Mankin fan, I love her Tempest series, which is NA romance with rock stars. Who doesn’t love those, right? Now, she’s made a stand-alone spin-off serial featuring more mature characters, Anna is 41, and Johnny is in his thirties, and their romance is absolutely sizzling. All three parts of the serial have been released, and cost only $0.99 each. Find Me is the first story, and I can’t recommend it enough.
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.
I love your coloring page! I haven’t touched mine since Christmas. Things are getting so busy! I also struggled (heavily) with getting up early to get ready for school. I have got to work on getting up at a fixed time and not hitting the snooze button!
I hate it when I can’t hit the snooze button, Charlie! That coloring page is the only one I’ve had time to do this year… It’s a nice way to listen to an audiobook 😀
I know what you mean about being exhausted. I can’t believe it has only been a couple of weeks since the year (and school and work and all) started. It feels much longer! but I’m glad you found to do some coloring. That must be relaxing! Did you really color the mandala in the picture??? Awesome! 🙂 good job Lexxie! 🙂
For me, this was the very first week back, Daniela, hopefully, I’ll catch the right rhythm soon, as it will be a busy semester.
It’s really nice to color while I listen to an audiobook, it keeps my mind on what I’m listening to, while I also feel a little creative 😀
It was an exhausting week, but it sounds like it went really well. Glad they are such good students. Hope next week goes smooth too.
Yes, it’s nice to have students who are motivated! I hope they’ll stay that way the whole semester 😀 Thanks for stopping by, Christy.
Even though your week was tiring sound slike it went well!!! Love the coloring!! Thanks for the shout out to my post 🙂 Have a great week!
Yes, it did go well, and that’s a good thing, as I’ll be spending the rest of the school-year with these students 😀
Have a great week yourself, Grace!
Love coloring and I should do it more again, but I just can’t find the right time somehow. Maybe it will go better with an ebook to listen to! I don’t know why I haven’t considered that before. Great idea!
-Myrthe
The only time I actually manage to get any coloring done is while I listen to an audio 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Myrthe!
I loved Dirty English! I can’t wait for the next book! That was the first Ilsa Madden-Mills book I have read and loved it! I have been coloring more too. Never thought I would enjoy it so much but its awesome!
I agree, this was my first Madden-Mills book, and I look forward to getting back to the series. And coloring is so relaxing – it feels like soaking in a hot bath 🙂
I really love your mandala. It looks very good. I’ve always wanted to color mandala’s or use those new and hip coloring books. Still haven’t been able to get one though.
I have been working, and I went to the movies and shopping in Amsterdam. Tonight and tomorrow is reading time for me. I’m not going to do anything but read! 😀
Have a great week 😉
I started getting those coloring books last summer, but I’ve only just gotten started on actually using them, and I love it.
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That is great that you have a good class, I am sure that helps. 🙂
Stormi
Yes, that definitely helps! They are really sweet, and they ask loads of questions, so I’m definitely up to date on grammar explanations right now 😀
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We’ve had a weird winter too. Christmas it had stayed in the 50-60’s Fahrenheit (10-15C). Now it is frequently in the single digits (-10-13C). It came quickly, which is making it hard for me to bear. Normally, I don’t have issues with the cold, but it is bothering me this year.
I haven’t been around much this week because of craziness at work. I’m hoping it will be less crazy this week.
Yeah, it’s gotten a lot colder here, too, so I won’t be able to cycle to work this week – I’m too afraid of falling and breaking my legs! For the first time in ages, I’ve had to turn up the heat inside our house, so I get what you mean, Melanie.
I hope your week will be much calmer 🙂
Sounds like you guys are adjusting! Hope thus week is smoother!
I hope so too, Melissa! It’s always hard to start again after a long holiday 🙂
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The kids have been the worst to get up for school. They moaned a lot and asked for the weekend. lol
It will all fall into place soon and then it’s summer vacation. These years really need to slow down 😉
I am so excited I won Find Me, I have been having a slight genre mood switch and looking for something more intense to read or more adult. So I think this one will be perfect 🙂
Have a great week, Lexxie! Happy Reading! ox
LOL, are you looking forward to the summer vacation already, Michelle? I hope you’ll enjoy Find Me as much as I did – it’s so nice to read romance with more mature characters, it makes me think older is sexy, too 😉
Have a great week yourself.
That coloring page you did looks fantastic! Are you using Prismacolor markers on it?
And I’m definitely going to check-out Michelle Mankin. I love rock star romances so I’m going to start with her NA books I think. 😀
For this coloring page, I used Caran d’Ache color pencils, they are so smooth, and I have a much bigger selection of colors than I have in pens and markers. I am going to look for more pens when I go to the US in May 🙂
I hope you’ll enjoy Michelle Mankin’s books, I really enjoy her writing, and her characters are very realistic – even if they are rockstars!
I really need to get myself a coloring book! It sounds so relaxing and something I would enjoy doing it. I like the idea of listening to an audiobook at the same time too!
Sorry about the week being a bit rough though. Hopefully you can get adjusted real soon.
Happy reading and have a lovely week!
It’s really nice! And listening to an audiobook is perfect – I stay focused on my book, but am still able to use all my beautiful colors.
Have a fantastic week yourself.
Oh wow! Those are super smooth color pencils! I’m going to have to check that brand out.
Yes, they’re amazing – expensive, but amazing.
Very pretty coloring page! I like coloring while listening to audio books too. It is very relaxing. I hope this week is much better for you. My mom is a teacher and it is hard for her to get back into the swing of things after Christmas break too. The cold weather certainly doesn’t help! I wish I could wake up and it would be spring.
Last week wasn’t awful, it was just hard to be productive again 😀 The cold weather makes me want to hibernate…
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I am so curious about the coloring trend…I remember sitting on the floor with coloring books while my mother ironed. Can you imagine anyone ironing? LOL
The Tempest series sounds like fun. Enjoy your week, and here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
We actually iron stuff, still… My husband wears shirts when he has meetings, and they definitely need to be ironed. And the coloring is so nice and relaxing! I’m not very artistic on my own, so being able to still make something beautiful by adding colors is awesome.
Have a fantastic week, Laurel-Rain!
That mandala you coloured looks awesome! Did you colour the backgroudn or was it that colour already? I am prety tired too after this week, it was quite the busy week.
Here it’s been colder, but no snow yet where I live, other parts of the country did get some snow.
I really liked that post by Anna from herding cats about 5 star ratings. Sometimes a book just doens’t feel like a 5 star even if there’s nothing wrong with it. Have a great week Lexie!
The background was already that color – I think that’s one of the things I prefer about that book, it looks really nice to not have the white background like most other coloring books have.
We got snow, but it’s almost all melted again, even if it’s very cold now.
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I got a coloring book for Christmas and I haven’t really gotten around to using it yet. I always think “well, there are A LOT of things I COULD be doing instead of coloring” hahaha
That’s too bad, Molly! I was like that for a while too, and also when it came to audiobooks, because I read very fast, but listening to an audiobook takes time… Now, I do both together – and I love it 🙂
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It feels like ages since I was took time out to color. I feel like there’s always something else that must get done. Maybe I will use my daughter as an excuse this weekend and we can color together in one of my books. 🙂 It’s always hard getting back into the regular routine after a long break, isn’t it? I hope you have a great week!
I refuse to only do the things I ‘have to’ do… Everybody else in the family do things just because they feel like it, so I think I deserve that as well 🙂
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Colouring is such fun, it really is relaxing and very addictive!!!
The snow has been falling this weekend with more due tomorrow morning.
Have a great week and stay warm!
Yes, it is strangely addictive, but so nice. We are due to get quite a bit of snow during the night… I hope it won’t be too much, because people in Geneva really aren’t very good at driving when there’s snow on the raod.
Happy reading.
great coloring page you have there!! I do need to try out mandala’s soon. Our weather has been like yours. Either cold and sunny….or wet and snow. Love the unpredictability in the winter time.
Thanks, Renee. I really love the mandala one. LOL, love is not exactly the word I’d choose for the unpredictability of the winter weather…
Awesome coloring page! My daughter has taken all of my coloring books but she enjoys it so that is okay. I am not enjoying our winter weather either. It suddenly got cold and I just don’t like it. Have a great week!
Oh, my youngest daughter tried to take one of my coloring books, and my oldest daughter wanted my pencils!! I told both of them to leave mom’s stuff alone 😉
Have a great week yourself, Carole.
I’ve been back to work for two weeks but this week was harder than last week. LOL Seemed like it would never end. It was freezing the beginning of the week and 70 by Saturday. Another cold blast coming on this Monday. Brr!!!
Oh no! I hope this week will feel like it goes really fast, and that everything you need to do for work will be easy 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Laura.
I love your coloring! I got some new coloring books at Christmas but I haven’t had time to color. It does sound relaxing while listening to an audiobook or music. I’m still having a hard time getting back to normal schedule. I’ve been really tired from work so I’m always hitting the snooze button. I hope you have a great week!
I really enjoy the coloring / audiobook combo. When I listen to music, I usually start dreaming about lots of things, so I’m not sure how I’d do if I tried coloring at the same time.
I love the snooze button, until I don’t 😉
Oh my god, did you colour that Mandala Lexxie? It’s amazing!
I’ve been reading about weird weather in other wintery parts of the globe as well, so mother nature is having some fun! Mind you, we’ve had some strange weather in our summer. Down south (Melbourne) they had a 43C day and the next was 19C. So perhaps Australia is copping it as well!
I love that mandala book, and my new pencils are perfect, Deb 🙂
Oh my goodness, the difference in temperature in Melbourne must have been really hard to live in!
Wow! What a great week you had! That coloring book looks amazing! I need to get back into coloring!
I hope I’ll be able to keep up with my coloring. Thanks for stopping by, Ronyell.
I have a coloring book that I really need to work on!! One of my local libraries had an adult coloring night and I did a page there and loved how it turned out! Coloring is fun. haha
Hope you have a nice week. Glad your classes have some good kids. And yeah, getting up early after breaks an all that is tough!
Coloring is definitely fun! I thought it was a bit weird when I first saw it, but then I thought about how much I used to love it, and just went with it.
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We got some big old fat flakes this week too, quite the snowstorm early in the week. then it melted some- just in time for us to get more!Hope your week is good.
Those coloring books look great, I’ve seen some of those and the designs are quite intricate!
I guess it’s about time the weather cooled and we got some snow, but it’s hard to get used to after so many months with warm and mild weather.
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Beautiful coloring! That looks like a cool coloring book. I haven’t colored in mine for a while, and probably need to get back to it. The colors you used work well together. It almost looks like a piece of fabric.
Thanks, Tiffany. I really love it, both because the designs are really well done, and because the background color (outside of the designs) isn’t white.
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Hope you have a great week! I’m tired as well from all that happened last week.
Thanks Lekeisha! I think I just need to get used to my schedule again, and then it’ll all be good 🙂
Hi! I love your picture! I received a coloring book and colored pencils for my birthday this week and started one of the pages. Personally, I find the colored pencils frustrating; however, I love how you used them for your picture and can see how they might be an asset. Since there is no right or wrong way to color, mixing in crayon and markers will be in my future. Thank you very much for sharing your work and your reviews and recommendations. Have a great week!
Depending on the coloring book, pens would bleed through the pages, and I would hate that, Xyra… Also, these pencils are so nice and smooth!
I don’t have enough different colors for my markers / pens, though, and I love being able to use several different shades of colors when I’m doing this.
I see what you are saying about the bleed through. I haven’t tried yet, but Crayola markers don’t usually bleed through unless the paper is thin, and there are a lot of different shades to use. I can’t see an entire picture in marker/pen, just certain spaces. Using marker, crayon, and pencil creates different textures of color – not like shading – kind of like a mixed media project. 🙂
Your coloring page looks amazing! I haven’t done any since early December. I was away for a month and didn’t take it with me, and I haven’t gotten back to it since I got home.
The weather’s been weird here, too. It’s bitterly cold today, but last week we had a few warmish days in the low 50s. It’s been hard to get back into the swing of things now that I’m home, especially since I’m turning around and heading out west again on Wednesday for a week. Oh, well, things will settle back into normalcy eventually!
Maybe you should bring your coloring books with you when you leave on Wednesday? I hope it will be a nice trip, even if the occasion is sad…
Normalcy is overrated, Lark 😉
I hope you and your family have gotten back into the groove, Lexxie. I know how hard it is and my kids had a holiday today (MLK) so it’s been really difficult getting into a routine for them. I’m glad it seems like your classes and students are going to be pleasant. And I’m glad you’re enjoying coloring! Your coloring page is lovely!
I hope you enjoyed your Monday! **BIG HUGS**
Yes, we’re back into the groove (thanks for putting Madonna in my head, btw), everybody is back in the right rhythm once more 🙂 My students are still very sweet, hopefully, they will continue to be this way for the rest of the school year 😀
*BIG HUGS*
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We have only had a couple of days of spitting snow and about half an inch last night. But tomorrow we are getting a blizzard which is my first since I moved here just a few years ago. Of course, I am a nervous wreck cause I really don’t want to lose power! I love your coloring-I saw it on your instagram, I think and I didn’t realize it was colored because it was too good! Have a good week and stay warm!