Welcome to my feature Chuckles Weekend Roundup where I will be looking at what books I've received, anything interesting I've done or bought or watched and other random stuff. I'll be taking a look back at what happened in my blogging world too, sort of like The Sunday Post that some of you do!
Please note that I'll be visiting your STS/SP as normal, but I don't follow or leave comments on blogs run by Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave comments, and I won't allow DISQUS to follow new people, update my profile or post tweets 'on my behalf'. I am the only one who does that on my social media! I won't comment on any blog that makes me sign in using another account. Sometimes, I have problems leaving messages on blogs hosted by Wordpress-they try to block me because I deleted my account with them but I will persevere as it only happens the odd time!
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Another cold week goes by though normal temperatures for November. Those who read my Chuckles Chuntering Post will know that I'm abandoning two of my November challenges as I'm just not in the mood for those books right now. Instead I'm happily indulging in my current non fiction mood though I have a couple of reviews to catch up with in the next few days. Still, I feel pretty much caught up with everything and the reading is going well so I can't complain! I've done my last supermarket shop until January which is good so I'm officially into winter hibernation other than things like milk from the local shop. No Christmas crowds to battle with, no Christmas music on the tannoy-just sport on TV, watching dvds and a roaring fire!
No more book buys for Chuckles until January so from now on my book additions on these weekend roundups will be books that I've found on ereaders and shelves that I forgot to add to my TBR when I bought them!
PAPERBACKS/HARDBACKS
Chuckles Blogging World
Still keeping pretty much up to date with my reviews-just need to write a couple for the books I've read this week and that will be me. Will be going Around The Blogs to catch up with everyone and doing my comment replies in the next day or two. I'm also ahead on my TTT and BFTB posts up to the first week in January so things are going well.
Book Reviews
Mark Lawrence-One Word Kill
DD Barant-Dying Bites (Bloodhound Files #1)
Ant Middleton-First Man In
KW Callahan-Shelter In Place
Regular Posts
Chuckles Friday Reading Roundup
Around The Blogs With Chuckles
Top Ten Tuesday
Books From The Backlog
Discussion Posts
Chuckles Chuntering
Book Challenges
Tackling The TBR
Films & TV
We've watched most of American Ninja Warrior season 9. During the mornings I've been watching some films I've seen before like Battle Los Angeles, Armageddon and Alien Directors Cut to pass the time while I blog.
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Book Tags/Blog Awards
none this week
Currently Reading/Up Next
It has been a good reading week now that I'm back on to just mood reading! I read two books in an urban fantasy series I was trying to catch up on, and two of these big Game of Thrones encyclopedias. It was mostly photographs and limited writing in them so I zoomed through both pretty quickly. Next up is more non fiction fun!
It’s been cold here, too. It’s snowing right now. That’s so cool that you don’t have to go grocery shopping until January. I eat a lot, and I don’t think I have enough space to store a month of food. I wish I did. Grocery shopping sucks.
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We're having a milder couple of days which makes showers so much more comfortable! I never enjoy shopping for food. I stock my fridge, freezer and cupboard with as much as I can so I can enjoy this rest from supermarkets! Our kitchen is pretty small so I have to get creative!
DeleteSounds like you're all prepared to sit back and hibernate. Hope you're enjoying your non-fiction. I also hope you love Slash as much as I did. The weather is turning here and I guess Winter is coming whether I want it to or not. I have a couple of Christmas movies I want to watch and I do enjoy some tunes from time to time but I'm boycotting all things Christmas until Thanksgiving is over. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteReady to hibernate and wait for a few Amazon sale packages! I'm pretty much ignoring all Christmas stuff except the excuse to pig out on food! I also have a general election to look forward to! Hopefully I'll read Slash next year...
DeleteI really liked Armageddon. The Alien movies have always been a favorite of mine.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to get the chance to go back and watch a few favourites!
DeleteWait, you won't go to the market again until January? That's wild. I go every week, but I make sure I am there right when it opens to avoid crowds. I admire you for abandoning challenges because you are not in the mood. It's the best idea, because we are supposed to be reading for fun.
ReplyDeleteI hate supermarket shopping especially in December when the swarm of locusts go out buying enough food for a decade! We go shopping maybe once a month to stock up what we used in the previous few weeks. I spend September and October filling our freezer and cupboards to ensure a break from the chaos for 6 or 7 weeks! The only thing we need to go to the local shop for is bread and milk.
DeleteSometimes the best thing is to go with what feels right and ignore your reading plans. Just go with what you feel like. I wish I could go a whole month without a trip to the store! Our food consumption will go way up in December since my daughter will be home and she seems to have people over a lot. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI felt I just had to go with reading what I wanted-it gives me a chance of hitting my Goodreads target! Dried pasta, tinned meat and soup, a freezer of meat all help us avoid the supermarkets for 6-8 weeks!
DeleteI have no idea how you manage to not food shop for a whole month (minus milk). Even when I had a huge chest freezer, I couldn't do it. We need a weekly to pick up breads, milk, fruit and veg etc. Although, I'm avoiding the festive scrum as much as possible (in fact, I avoid the supermarket as much as possible) by getting the shop delivered!
ReplyDeleteWe have a fridge freezer with three shelves in each. The freezer is stuffed with meat, favourite ready meals, pizza, kievs and so on. We have lots of dried pasta, tinned fish and meat, pasta and curry sauces, rice...lots of options! Even tinned spaghetti on toast is filling enough for two of us for dinner! I reckon we have enough for 2 months...Aldi and Morrisons don't deliver in our areas so we can't get that. Sadly we need to get it ourselves!
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