A relaxing week #blogger
Can't believe it's been a week since we last spoke. I had a bit of a relaxing week. I spent a couple days visiting my mom who's getting some work done on her house. Unfortunately, I came home with an allergic reaction, from what, we still don't have a clue. Trusty dimetapp took care of it, until the side effects took over. So I spent the latter half of the week recovering from that. Nice! (Not.)
While recovering, I've been delving into my husband's Jazz collection prompted, no doubt, by the loss of Sonny Rollins (R.I.P.). I'm a casual jazz listener but never delved as deeply into it as he has. Now, he's bringing me up to speed on all his favorites, and I'm reading articles online about the greats. That counts as reading, doesn't it?
Reading:
I advanced a little more in 100 Years of Solitude. I'm up to chapter 6. Will I finish it by the time season 2 hits Netflix? It's only 458 pages, but still, I doubt I'll finish it by August.
Watching:
Speaking of Jazz musicians, we watched “Bird” last night, about Charlie Parker.
We also finished season one of 100 years of Solitude and season one of the Testaments, and The Girl on the Train. My god. We had a heck of a time finding that movie. I have been looking for it for months but running across several movies with that title–that have nothing to do with the novel by Paula Hawkins. (Why, why would they do that?) Anyway, I finally got to see the correct one. From what I recall (it's been a few months since I read the book) the movie sticks pretty close to the story.
Mom got me hooked on Hart of Dixie so now we're watching that and alternating with The Mandalorian.
Alas, given the sojourn away from home and struggle with allergies this week, I didn't manage to finish editing a full chapter of the follow up to Letters to Ellie yet. As I am starting to feel better, that will be remedied next week.
And for the website news, it's mainly done. I'm still a bit iffy on this here blog. I have a way for y'all to subscribe. I think. But most of the service's best features are locked behind a paywall. I'm considering either bouncing these blog links digest style, to my Kit newsletter… or moving my blogging to Substack.
I could do that, but… that defeats of the purpose of using the site-linked blog for SEO purposes–which is part of the point. If I change the subscription link to my Kit newsletter, I have access to one welcome sequence. Which means it might confuse blog subscribers. And, sorry, but the welcome sequence for my readers and reader magnet have to take precedence there. I'm not sure what to do. I miss Feedburner.
Speaking of the blog:
Posts you might have missed:
Only one this time: A "From the Archives" post: Top ten Books with Settings I'd like to visit.
And that's been my week. How was yours?
(Don't forget to check out our host Kimberly, The Caffeinated Reviewer's Sunday Post.)
