I am home. Wiped out. Tired. Lots to do. Home.
Friday I drove with my friend Amy to a hotel in the cities to meet up with Jennifer and Jody, the other two girls that we were doing the mud run in Wisconsin with on Saturday morning. It was a lot of fun and I will have pics up later of the mud run – we use old school disposable camera’s because.. well it’s mud. And lots of water we jump in, swim in… and well, more mud.
Then… after the Mud Run we drove to Shakopee Minnesota to drop Amy off with friends for Canterbury Downs (horse races!) and I hurried home to shower, change, pack, and head to Crosslake Minnesota for day two of the Camp Benedict AIDS bike ride. I did not ride as I had missed day one and did not want to have my car and bike and have to figure out how to get the car back home, 40 miles away. I did go to cheer on the riders and spend time with friends. I was tired but it was good to catch up with everyone and I seen them off this morning as they started their ride.
So now I am home and need to get in my office and get some work done. I have work to do on the book and I need as much time as possible in the office this week to make the deadline coming up. Here are the books that came in the house the past two weeks:
I was out of town last weekend so did not put a post up – but lots of goodies have come in the door!
One Mountain Away by Emilie Richards (audio)
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom (audio)
Don’t Talk To Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams (audio)
Brood X by Michael Phillips Cash
Risen by Michael Phillips Cash
JERK by Johnathon Friesen – purchased
MAYDAY by Johnathon Friesen – purchased
Aquifer by Johnathon Freisen – purchased
The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan
The Children’s Act by Ian McEwan
I’ve Still Got It by Jenny McCarthy
The Ghost In The Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce
Visions by Kelley Armstrong
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
A full house here but books make me smile 🙂 Hope the rest of your Sunday is wonderful!
That’s a pretty big book load. How long do you think it will take you to read them?
Unsure, forgot to mention that Landline was a gift from a fellow reviewer. 🙂 Audio goes rather quickly for me.
What a wonderful selection of books – I’m coveting the Ian McEwan.
It does look amazing!
Atonement is one of my favourite books of all time so I need a copy of this latest book
I am excited about it 😉
Sounds like you had a great weekend! I see a few new to me books so I’ll have to check them out.
I did Vicki, it was a busy one – I knew it would be but actually went pretty smooth and as always, great to hang out with friends.
I am eagerly awaiting The Children Act…sounds like my kind of read.
I am anxious to dig into that one too Laurel 🙂
That’s a lot! How do you keep up with all that??? I see your bookshelves in the background. They must really be overflowing. Well, maybe not in that nice new library room you have. 🙂
This was a pretty busy two weeks of books coming in. Thank goodness for the Reading Room! 😀
I cannot imagine sloshing around in mud like that! You have a deadline for your book? Do you have a contract? Did I miss something?
The mud is fun 😀 Not a book deadline but an opportunity deadline. There is a publication opportunity for those with new manuscripts to submit and have a series of publishing companies look at and pick the best of the best to move on to publishing and marketing. Laura from Clean Reads told me about it – deadline to submit is August 13th. Its cutting it very tight but I have to try!
I always love your mud run pics … hurry up and post them!
I have to get them developed then I am on it Beth 🙂
You do the most fun and crazy stuff! Good for you! That’s a great stack of books.
It is an intimidating stack 😀
I’ve always wanted to do a mud run – it looks like so much fun! have a great week!
You must do it … they are a blast!
That’s a busy weekend! Here’s hoping you can settle into your week.
I think I can, I have a pretty good layout going and it is doable 🙂
I hope you enjoy One Mountain Away as much as I did Sheila! And I must have missed something — are you writing a book?!
Oh I saw your reply to Kathy above. Good luck! What a great goal to work toward.
I have written a book Karen! It needs some tweaking and I am re-marketing it and still open for a publishing company. It has always been my passion to be a writer. I have a couple others in my head as well. I just need to get moving 😀
Write on!
I’m curious about your thoughts on the audio of Lucky Us. I listened to it last week.