{ A bookish Sunday }

 

 

My Sundays are a mixture of quiet and bustling about, resetting the house for the incoming week.

 

There's gym, there's a nap in there (because always, after my shower after returning home, and a quick lunch, I find myself asleep for about 20 minutes),  there's dinner preparations because Jasmine and her boyfriend come over for dinner every week, there's laundry and picking up here and there, but there's also books and tv.

 

I watched quite a few YouTube book videos, I am currently in a book phase which means everything in my life revolves around books, buying books, hauling books, new books, old books, book reviews and so on.

 

I used to be a huge romance book reader, and even though I still love the romance genre, lately, I have been enjoying fantasy and Christian fiction.  So, while at the gym today and doing my 30 minute run on the treadmill, I watched a new to me channel on YouTube.  It is called Chantel Reads All Day.  She focuses on mainly on Christian fiction and recently did a collaboration with other Christian channels, talking about their favorite Christian reads for the year of 2024.  Found quiet a few books on there that I am looking forward to reading.

 

One that caught my eye, is by Tessa Afshar, an author that writes Biblical fiction.  She takes stories from the Bible and creates a story of what could have been.  The book that caught my eye is called Land of Silence and it is about the bleeding woman in the Bible.  So Tessa takes her story, which is quite a short account in the Bible, and she writes a fiction story of what her life could have been like up to the moment she meets Jesus, and after.

 

I watched Chantel's video from last year as well, with the best Christian books of 2023, and while doing that, I cleaned and reorganized my book shelf.  I have 3 bookshelves in my bedroom, and my plan and hope is that I can turn the whole wall, into a huge bookshelf.  Curt and I have plans for that, but in the meantime, there is a tiny space between the shelf and the wall, about 7 inches which is perfect for small paperbacks.

 

I asked hubby to cut me some wood, 7 inches long, and I shoved them in that space and was able to place my smaller paperbacks.  It gave me more room for more books, and I love it.  I will take some pictures later.

 

The rest of the afternoon, I spent faffing around doing the usual Sunday reset chores.  Curt worked out front, cleaning the porch and bringing our planters back out, in preparation for Spring.  I can not wait to get all my flowers, herbs and vegetables planted.  

 

Also, got all the laundry finished, washed, dried and put away, then made a delicious dinner of Ham, Potato Casserole, Green Beans and Garlic Biscuits.

 

We ended the night with a family game of Five Crowns.