It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (February 04): 02/04/19

Hosted by Kathryn of Book Date.

The rain is back and will be around for most of next week. It's nice to not have to water. Fortunately we aren't expecting any flooding. Other parts of California aren't as lucky.

I've made some progress on the Davis farm painting. But it's going slowly. Mostly I need to stare at it and think how to attack it next.

In the meantime, I'm about half way finished with my sketchbook. I should be finished with it in about two weeks.

Below is a painting of turkeysaurus-Rex. No, it's not a real thing, just a what if. What if the T-Rex were even more like a turkey than it actually was.

Reading this week was pretty calm until today when I realized I had a bunch of library books due. So I spent my rainy day reading. Nearly half the books I read this week were ones I finished today.

What I read:

• Black Hammer, Vol. 3: Age of Doom Part One by Jeff Lemire; personal collection
• All Summer Long by Hope Larson; personal collection
• Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, Volume 1 by Hinowa Kouzuki; personal collection
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart; personal collection / research
• Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Childs; library book
• Monsters & Modules by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes (Illustrations); library book
• The House that Lou Built by Mae Respicio; library book/ research

What I'm reading:

• White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig; personal collection
• Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 2 by Ryoko Kui; personal collection
• Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien; personal collection
• Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley; personal collection

Up Soon:

• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee; personal collection
• Voltron Legendary Defender Volume 3: Absolution by Mitch Iverson; personal collection
• Buried in Books by Kate Carlisle; personal collection
• Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon; library book

Posts:

• FF33CC and FF3399: rural orphans in the maze and labyrinth
• January 2019 Sources
• January 2019 Summary
• Road Narrative Update for January 2019

Reviews Posted

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor; library book / research
• Black Hammer: Age of Doom by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston; personal collection / research
• Charley Harper's Book of Colors by Zoe Burke; library book
• Mabel Jones and the Doomsday Book by Will Mabbitt and Ross Collins; library book / research
• Snake Bite by Andrew Lane; library book
• SOS at Night by M.A. Wilson; personal collection
• Tintin in Tibet by Hergé; library book

Comments  (20)

Comment #1: Sunday, February 03, 2019 at 17:35:29

The moon has been gorgeous lately! So fun to go out moongazing :)

Yvonne

I always love seeing your paintings. You are so talented.

Comment #4: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 at 20:05:00

Pussreboots

Thank you.

Comment #5: Monday, February 04, 2019 at 09:47:53

Laurel-Rain Snow

Great scenes! Enjoy your books and just enough rain to keep away the drought.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Comment #6: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 at 20:09:00

Pussreboots

Would you believe the rain even turned into snow in our local hills? I'll post pictures this coming Monday.

Comment #7: Monday, February 04, 2019 at 13:01:18

Kathy Martin

Lovely assortment of books. I liked White Rabbit. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

Comment #8: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 at 20:14:00

Pussreboots

I ended up DNFing White Rabbit. I'll post a review in the future.

Comment #9: Monday, February 04, 2019 at 13:03:01

Ellen Pilch

Buried in Books looks good. I like your paintings, very nice.

Comment #10: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 at 20:18:00

Pussreboots

I hope so. The last one was very good.

Comment #11: Monday, February, 4, 2019 at 13:10:17

Erin @ Cracker Crumbs

I love a good rainy day. But not flooding. Glad that is missing you!

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise looks good. Is that part of your project?

And exciting about your sketchbook! Thanks for the tip about it, btw. My husband is pretty pressed for time, so that was good to know. :)

Comment #12: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 at 20:18:00

Pussreboots

Yesterday was the most rain I've seen here in a long time. Then it turned cold and our local hills actually got snow.

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is very good and is part of my project. I'll be reviewing it this Saturday. I also read it because I'm friends with the author's agent.

I'm working on the sketchbook for about an hour each weekday. I"m nearly finished and will easily make the deadline. But it als takes planning which is how I spent my first two weeks with it. In the future, I'll plan the book before I get the book now that I know a blank one has 32 pages.

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