{Sunday Post} - Dusk's Darkest Shores, Son, and The Woman In the Window

Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer!

Good Morning, Everyone! 

 

Yeah, it's been over a month since my last Sunday Post. Due to depression, high anxiety, sinus infections, allergies, and earaches, I had to take a break from blogging. The weather here has been nauseating with unusually cool temperatures and an overload of rain, which is the cause of most of my ailments, minus the anxiety and depression.  

 

The latter has more or less increased because of my grandmother's declining health. The nursing home opened back up by appointment only in either late March or April, and my mother has been trying to visit once a week. Then with the snap of a finger, my grandmother could no longer communicate or feed herself. According to the nurses, she didn't have a stroke, though I beg to differ as all the signs are in plain sight. What do I know, right? Anyway, supposedly she has a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection), which is the cause of her slurring. They gave her on antibiotics. Then nothing changed. The nurses ran more tests, and the UTI was still there, so she's back on antibiotics. I visited my grandmother on Mother's Day. She had no clue who I was. She thought her Mother's Day card read Mr. Christmas. Depending on which technician, nurse, or therapist answers the phone, my grandmother is either doing fine, more of the same, or going downhill fast. I wish the nursing home had sent her to a hospital, as the doctors there would have put her in liquids and ran the proper tests. I'm not a doctor, so my opinion doesn't matter.  

So, in other words, the inevitable for my grandmother is around the corner. And the thought of it is the main reason for my current round of depression and anxiety.

 

 

What Am I Reading?

 

I'm finally getting around to reading Meant To Be by Jude Deveraux, though I haven't picked it up in several days. If my memory serves me correctly, I'm on Chapter 10.

 

 

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What's in the Mail? 

Dusk's Darkest Shores by Carolyn Miller is the only recent book in the mail. I'll be reviewing it for an upcoming book tour on June 1st. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment sent The Marksman Blu-ray. I've watched it but haven't gotten around to writing the review. RLJE Films sent the Son DVD, which I have viewed and reviewed.

 

 

What's New On the Bookshelf?

 

I've picked up several books over the last six weeks from either Dollar Tree or Walmart. The titles are The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie, The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, Dog Diaries: Ruffing It by James Patterson and Steven Butler, Best Nerds Forever by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, City of Lies by Victoria Thompson, The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang, The Grim Company: Dead Man's Steel by Luke Scull, Game of Shadows by Erika Lewis, 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, Texas Hold'em by George R. R. Martin.

Recent titles on my Kindle are Star Trek: The Latter Fire by James Swallow, Star Trek: Fortunes of War: Dreadnought! by Diane Carey, Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy by Kristen Beyer, Star Trek: Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana, Star Trek: Losing the Peace by William Leisner, Star Trek: DS9: Rising Sun by S.D. Perry, Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah, and Star Trek: Enterprise: Broken Bow by Diane Carey.