My #weekendreading plans; hope to finish one or two of these.

I got my date for my radiation treatments. I start Wednesday at noon and finish at the very latest on August 5. I‘m so glad that the end is in sight for my treatments.

Very simple plans for #20in4 #readathon:

📚Finish Booth and The Paper Palace
📚Get as much of A Promised Land completed

Since Friday is very likely a beach day for me, I will likely take A Promised Land with me.

This is my pick for #lmpbc I said I would pick historical fiction

My reading for the weekend (actually reading for today, as tomorrow my sister is coming out for Father‘s Day) #weekendreading

#summerheat usually means going on some sort trip away either to a place like Victoria, BC or up into the mountains, going into Vancouver for the day, going on some picnics, going to Bard on the Beach and me getting burned at least once during the summer

Onto part 3 #obamabuddyread Cancer treatments and surgery have really impacted my reading and probably will for the remainder of the year. Feeling tired from the cancer is worse than feeling tired from the treatments and surgery.

1) 1920s Windsor, Ontario

2) The Royal Governess

3) Christmas Past by Brian Earl

#wondrouswednesday

#newbooks that I have purchased. My Anne set is almost 30 years old and I don‘t know where the first two books are. #bookmail #bookhaul

1) Anyone can be a writer, but I feel that in order to be an author, you need to be published.

2) No and no.

#two4tuesday

1) Goodreads, StoryGraph, Bookly, iReaditNow HD, Reading List, Litsy, LibraryThing, Libby, Audible, Kobo Books
2) everything up until Litsy I use several times a day, Libby and Kobo are used for ebooks and use them infrequently. LibraryThing I don‘t use a lot of but have a lifetime membership and use Audible very infrequently.
3) Bookly because you can track how much time you spent reading and can also⬇️

#sundayfunday

#bookreport Finished one book this week and that was for my book club meeting yesterday.

#weeklyforecast Plan on working on these other books this coming week and having a couple of them fully completed this week.

My plans for #joysofjune are to:

Finish:
📚 Booth
📚 The Duke and I
📚 The Paper Palace

Work on:
📚A Promised Land
📚The Verge

4.75⭐️ I managed to squeak this book in time for my book club meeting tomorrow afternoon. While it isn‘t my top favourite book in the series, I still enjoyed the book for the most part and liked the continued transition of Harry and his friends from children into young adults. #2022 #fiction #harrypotter #fantasy #reread #youngadult #bookreview#bookstagram

A little over a week into the #bigjunereadathon and I have already read more than I read in May by 5 hours. Still feeling tired from chemo and surgery recovery (a lot chemicals were pumped into my body between the chemo drugs and the anesthesia that I was given for my surgery in April), but I am gradually recovering. Cancer truly sucks.

My summer selections are:
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🍦
🗺
🏮
#thoughtfulthursday

1. 👓⚡️☠️🧹🐡🏃‍♂️🏆⚰️

2. A Gentleman in Moscow

3. I think a 3.25⭐️

#wondrouswednesday

1) I think that it does, but it‘s hard to say that it reflects the story

2) The cover didn‘t reflect my decision to read the book

#two4tuesday

#bookreport
Didn‘t finish anything this week

#weeklyforecast
Still working on Goblet of Fire for my book club meeting on Saturday

Need to start on The Diamond Eye, as it‘s a two week loan from the library. I also need to work on The Duke & I and A Promised Land and start The Verge

My goal is to read more this month. I don‘t know how much energy I will have once I start radiation in the next couple of week (got my three tattoo marks). I read about 13 hours last month and I am aiming for 50 hours. I am also aiming to get A Promised Land completed.

#bigjunereadathon

🌙 The Happy Color app and holding my baby blanket when anxious and listening to podcasts.

🌙 It depends on the book and if I need to get it done, otherwise not these days.

🌙 I need it total quiet to sleep

#thoughfulthursday

Hair continues to get longer. My mom noticed on Tuesday while waiting for my radiation orientation to start that my curls are starting to come back in and I have noticed that the hair at the back is sticking up a bit and that there are a few patches that are longer than the rest of my hair (these indicate that I did have some hair left on my head at some point, not that I noticed). Got my radiation tattoos ⬇️

1) I haven‘t, sadly
2) Yes; I have bought a number of books that I had already read, at least four that I have read recently I have purchased: the tagged book, Longbourne by Jo Baker, The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow and The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larsen
3) A bit of all three, but mostly the synopsis

#wondrouswednesday

My June #bookspinbingo

1) Not particularly

2) Tagged book

#two4tuesday

I‘m slowly getting back into my reading, but I‘m still recovering from chemo and surgery and my hormones are acting up (I believe I‘m going through menopause), but hopefully things will get better as I start radiation.

#bookreport #weeklyforecast

1) I have, but I can‘t recall when I last did.
2) Tagged book
3) Probably something from the mid Victorian period until the cusp of the Great Depression

#sundayfunday

1. The Duke and I and HP and the Goblet of Fire
2. The Personal Librarian (it‘s the only book I read for May)
3. To finish Goblet of Fire

#weekendreads

My #weekendreading books very much like my #24in4 books

My plans for #20in4 #readathon are to work on the Harry Potter book and Anxious People and to finish The Duke & I.

My #roll100 selections for June

1) Kits Beach in Vancouver

2) it would probably be just myself

3) Somersby Apple Cider, egg salad sandwiches, Miss Vicki‘s Chips, Long John doughnuts

#thoughtfulthursday

A bit more growth on the top but not enough to get away with not wearing a hat in the sun; I‘m currently sitting in the shade at the moment.

Enjoying an ice cream cone in a local park on a decent afternoon.

3.5⭐️ I read it for a number of reasons, namely because I had heard about the subject of the novel on one of my numerous book podcasts. I thought the book was ok, despite the subject matter. #2022 #bookreview #bookstagram #historicalfiction #fiction #ebook #overbookedclub

My goals are to finish:

📚HP and the Deathly Hallows
📚The Personal Librarian
📚Booth
📚Anxious People

#marvellousmay #readathon

Two months post chemo, hair is starting to come in fast; two weeks ago there was stuff there but not much, but I did ditch my head coverings that I had been wearing since November. Two months post chemo, hair is starting to come in fast; two weeks ago there was stuff there but not much, but I did ditch my head coverings that I had been wearing since November. ⬇️

Because the hair on my head is relatively thin (you can still see the skin on the top of my head), I need to wear hats this summer. And because the sun is starting to come out for longer periods of time, I need to protect it. So today I went to a local store and found these inexpensive hats (the total came to under $30). On my way back to my vehicle, I popped into the bookstore in the mall and found this book and got it for under $20. #newbooks

My hair is starting to come back!! And I am starting to not wear a hat around the house and getting used to seeing my head again after it being covered with a beanie. I‘m planning on getting a swim cap for the beach or pool and a ball cap or two for being outside during the warmer months (my head has never been exposed in this way to sun and don‘t want to start burning it now).

My #roll100 for May

My time for the #readathon yesterday. It was just a day where everything seemed to conspire against me reading yesterday.

My #bookspinbingo list for May

Happy #deweysreadathon day. First book that I will work on for today and today is the first time I have read a book since April 3. #readathon #24hrreadathon

I got really good news last week. My surgeon mentioned that the tumour in my left breast had shrunk to the size of a thumbnail and the margins were super clear and hadn‘t spread elsewhere and remained contained. The lymph node that had been tested in September was free of cancer and the other ones that were removed were also free of cancer. For all intensive purposes, according to my surgeon, I am cancer free. ⬇️

Misplaced my copy of the book so I ordered a new copy of the book.

My plans for #awesomeapril #readathon are to read the books pictured above. I may work on some others, but that is dependent on what I can finish in the next couple of days.

Update: surgery went well. It was a day surgery procedure so I was home by 5:30 pm. My surgery lasted about 2 hours, was in recovery for about 90 minutes and in post op for about 6 hours before being discharged. I haven‘t read anything since Sunday evening, as I have been exhausted and can‘t really use my left hand yet, as I have a pillow under that arm at the moment. The pain is subsiding, helped by pain meds. #update

Just finished Apples Never Fall and didn‘t really like it.

Planning continuing A Promised Land, HP & the Deathly Hallows and Booth. I do plan on starting Fight Night this week, but that will depend on how I‘m feeling after my surgery on Monday morning

#weeklyforecast #bookreport

2.75⭐️ I thought the premise for the book was interesting, but by the end of the book I really didn‘t care for the family. I thought that the chapters that focused on the individual siblings were too long and found myself not really caring about the siblings. I thought that the chapters should have been shorter and the story shorter as a result. #2022 #fiction #contemporary #bookreview #bookstagram

My plans for #weekendreading is to finish Apples Never Fall and to work on HP & the Deathly Hallows and Booth