The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly over at Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap what’s been happening on your blog, give a heads up on what’s coming up, and anything else you feel like sharing.

• Top Ten Tuesday: Cozy or atmospheric reads
• WWW Wednesday
• Luck: An original story
• Friday Fragments the Third
• Book Review: Bond Keeper: The Watcher’s Gift by Nicola Appaji
• Sunday Post

I haven’t done a ton this week. Mostly it’s just been assessments, getting used to a regular blogging schedule, and prepping for my return to BookTube in December. Blogging has been a bit of a learning curve, finding out what I can do on wordpress.com and trying to figure out workarounds for the things I can’t.

I haven’t been watching much this week because I’ve not been feeling the best. I have been watching a few TBR game videos to get some ideas for when I’m ready to make my own. I’ve also watched a few reaction videos. One of my faves this week was Foreign Girls reacting to Jurassic Park. Oh, and I’ve started following a few board game channels. It began with my discovery of Crimsonboardgames a week or two ago when I came across her Top Ten Solo Board Games video; and, oh my gosh, did you even know that’s a thing? I’m stoked to have made this discovery!

I love board games. It should be said, I’m not very good at them, but I enjoy playing. Unfortunately, I haven’t played any in years because, well, I’ve no one to play them with. So, finding out that solo games exist is the highlight of my month. I can’t wait until the new year (when all my Xmas expenses are done with) so I can go out and grab some! I’m leaning towards Calico as my first purchase if I can get hold of it, as it looks like a lot of fun. What d’you reckon? Anyone played it?

I had a song stuck in my head for the past couple of weeks. Not even a full song, just a couple of lines. Infuriating. I finally got it out of my head the night before last, only to have Mum play it in the car yesterday morning putting it right back in. Aaaagh! If I turn batty, everyone here will now know why.

We had Simple Satay Chicken for dinner last night, so tonight’s dinner is leftover satay in puff pastry. So yummy!

Started

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah. J. Maas

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLaren (Narrator)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1)

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan

Winter Moon by Dean Koontz

Finished

Bond Keeper: The Watcher’s Gift by Nicola Appaji

Dis Information and Other Wikkid Myths by Karl Kruszelnicki

Letters for Emily: A Novel by Camron Wright

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan

DNF’d

Current Reads

Freebies

Gifted

Mum was done with one of her books so she gave it to me:

Jacinda Ardern: The Story Behind an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff

Library

Purchased

Visited Kiwanis, a local second hand bookstore to look into volunteering there. I should have known better than to browse the stacks, but I have exactly zero impulse control on these matters, especially when I discover a room dedicated to nonfiction, and especially when there’s a whole section devoted to Australian history. Here’s the new additions to my shelves:

Australian English: An Historical Study of the Vocabulary 1788-1898 by W.S. Ramson with A.G. Mitchell (foreword)

The Australian Home by Ian Evans

Ben Hall by Frank Clune

Bill Wannan Selects Stories of Old Australia

The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy

The Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O’Reilly

From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz

The Coward’s Tale by Vanessa Gebbie

The Girl Who Stole Stockings: The True Story of Susannah Noon and the Women of the Convict Ship Friends by Elsbeth Hardie

Grains of Mustard Seed by Colin Thiele with research by Ron Gibbs

Islands of Angry Ghosts by Hugh Edwards

A Place of Exile: The European Settlement of New South Wales by David Mackay

Three Wild Dogs and the truth by Markus Zusak

The StoryGraph Reading Goals

52 Book Club 2025 Challenge

52 Book Club 2025 Mini-Challenges

2025 Read Good Challenge

2025 Buzzword Challenge

2025 Buzzword Cover Challenge

Monthly Challenges

This week I learned that there was a coordinated maritime rescue on 9/11. Over 150 merchant ships, tugboats, and ferries evacuated over half a million frightened and injured civilians from Manhattan, making it the largest sea evacuation in history even eclipsing Dunkirk, in which an armada of civilian boats joined the navy in rescuing 338,000 Allied troops. It has been dubbed the Great Boat Lift of 9/11.

Words I had to look up this week:

inimical

1. adverse or unfavourable
2. not friendly; hostile

(source: collinsdictionary.com)

In the context I read it, the meaning was definitely hostile as it was referring to a malevolent alien.

(click word for definition)

Pronunciations I had to look up this week:

Hebrides

(click word for pronunciation)

So, here it is. Better late than never, I suppose. Just pretend today is Sunday lol. It took a lot longer than anticipated, partly because this is the first one, so I had to settle on a template, create images, and all that jazz; but mostly, because a lot of the books I bought are so old that I had to add them to The StoryGraph, and request they be added or tweaked (adding covers, blurbs etc) on Goodreads. You would not believe how much time that took up! And all this while trying to read enough for my reading challenges. There might be a couple of changes here and there as the weeks progress but, for the most part, with the initial setup done, it should be so much quicker from now on. Especially since book hauls, which is what took up most of my time, are a rarity for me.

Anyway, I think the Sunday Post (and other blogging memes along the same lines) is a great idea and I’ve had tremendous fun putting it together. Shout out to the Caffeinated Reviewer for hosting it!

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© Adele Walker October 2025
Last modified: 28 October 2025