The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand BIRTHDAY EDITION 4-5-26 + #Giveaway Sadly, today marks the end of this year's Blogo-Birthday Celebration. Weirdly, today is Easter Sunday, it's the middle of Passover (which began on April 1st) AND it's my birthday. So if you celebrate either Passover or Easter, I hope this is a good holiday for you! If you're here for my birthday, or just for the Sunday Post, thanks for stopping by to celebrate with me!

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Stacking the Shelves (699) BLOGO-BIRTHDAY EDITION + #Giveaway This is the 699th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality, and tomorrow is my 69th birthday. Who says there are no such thing as coincidences? Today is the penultimate, meaning next-to-the-last, day of Reading Reality's 15th Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. Today is also Reading Reality's official blogoversary, as the first post on what was then "Escape Reality, Read Fiction", was posted on April 4, 2011…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 3-29-26 This is the first "normal" weekend we've had in a while. The floors are finished, the handymen have come and gone after fixing several years of minor stuff that accumulated into a fairly big list, and the cats are finally settling down into some slightly different behavior patterns. (The night that the cats decided to test the new acoustics AT 2AM will live in infamy).

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Stacking the Shelves (698) If pretty is as pretty does, most of these covers don't. There's not a lot of pretty here, but I think that's a sign that there's a lot of mystery/suspense in this stack. Although Wisdom Corner looks like the exception to that rule, as it is an adrenaline-fueled story and it does have a beautiful cover. At least as long as the drippy bits are paint and not blood.

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 3-22-26 No one at Chez Reading Reality had the best week this week, and the reviews definitely reflect that. I only had ONE book work for me, and there was even more flailing and bailing than seems evident from here. We were finally able to sleep in our own bed again Thursday night - and things are slowly getting back to normal although there's a lot of clean up to do AND a whole lot of area rugs to decide on.

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Stacking the Shelves (697) Welcome to another interesting stack of "how the shelf stacks". (And hopefully a stack where the linky works because last week's didn't.) We're back home. The flooring is just about done although Tuna's high anxiety hasn't come down yet and he hasn't come up from the basement except for  stealth reconnaissance runs late at night. Just wait until you see tomorrow's picture!

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 3-15-26 This is Luna, telling Galen all about just how unhappy she is and (probably) how much the other cats have misbehaved. You might be asking yourself "Why is Luna so unhappy?" If you knew her better, you might also be wondering how we can tell, as this is a fairly typical Luna pose, with her mouth open mid-conversation. She always has a LOT to say.

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Stacking the Shelves (696) I've tried to keep the truly creepy covers out of this week's stack. I'm afraid - I'm very afraid - that I didn't quite succeed. But I do have plenty of interesting books - and even a few pretty ones to share! My favorites this week are The Bureau of Unknown Fates, The Hired Man and The Stars Look Like Home…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 3-8-26 Today's cat picture is of George, trying his rather large best to look like a very tiny baby. He does sort of succeed. He's the same size Tuna is but Tuna always looks HUGE and George just looks long. Also, as in this picture, looks rather longingly at something-or-other. He's also looking a bit sad, but unfortunately for George and all of our cats, not nearly as sad as he'll look tomorrow morning.

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Stacking the Shelves (695) There's a little bit of everything in this stack! The three prettiest covers also manage to be pretty different from each other. I'm looking at Murder on Charity Lane, Pretenders to the Throne of God (that whole series has gorgeous covers!), and Thistlemarsh. They're all pretty, but they are definitely not pretty the same. There are two books in this stack that I absolutely did pick for their titles.

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 3-1-26 How's the first day of March where you are? Do temps in the mid-70s constitute lion-like or lamb-like behavior? That's what we're supposed to get in the ATL and inquiring minds probably need to know. Personally, I think it's just that spring has sprung here, whether the calendar says so or not, but we'll see. While this picture isn't a creepy cover, it did kind of creep both Galen and I out when we saw it in real life.

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Stacking the Shelves (694) This is an interesting stack - in a case where interesting isn't even a euphemism for something else. It's just interesting. It's not particularly creepy, which is kind of a relief after last week's Meat Bees. I'm still shuddering at THAT cover. There's also not a lot of truly 'pretty' in this stack, except for the very pretty…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 2-22-26 This week's schedule fell completely to bits, because last weekend turned out to be a lot busier than I thought it was going to be. One of the things that made it so busy was running out to get our new gaming chair. Which you wouldn't think would be THAT big a deal, but it turned out to be. I'm thrilled with the chair as it's a lot more supportive for my back when I play.

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Stacking the Shelves (693) There's way more 'pretty creepy' than there is pretty in this stack. The one seriously pretty cover is What We Are Seeking. Although Alibi by Accident, Lost in the Summer of '69, The Paris Match and The Pie & Mash Detective Agency certainly have cute covered. (Ahem, so to speak, pun intended and all that.) Creepy is creeping all over this stack, between…

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A little "me" time.
Reading The covenant of water, by Abraham Verghese. 📖

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 2-15-26 Yesterday was Valentine's Day, so it seemed like a good idea to include a lovely picture of one of our little loves. This is obviously Princess Luna of the little white feets, catching a nap in a sunbeam and looking cute and adorable. As she does. She's certainly more 'beautifully' posed than last week's snap of her brother Tuna!

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Stacking the Shelves (692): Valentines Day Edition Happy Valentine's Day! If your loves are human, I hope you're able to celebrate in in whatever way works for you. If your loves are four-legged and furry, I hope they don't leave you too many presents of the 'unfortunate' kind. With cats that either means they've caught prey FOR YOU, or they've left a hairball and neither are anything their human wants.

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 2-8-26 Reading-wise, it was a very good week. In the getting-things-done department, it was a bit less successful. I started out behind because of Monday's post, which was not what I'd originally planned. We also had insulation installers in on Wednesday and the plumbers on Friday, so more disruption than I care to have. But it was all necessary, and I'll get caught up eventually.

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Stacking the Shelves (691) We definitely have some gorgeous covers this time around. YAY! Daggerbound, Exit Party, The Eye of Leviathan, Murder Unabridged and Twig's Traveling Tomes are each pretty in their own ways. And I love both Murder Unabridged and Twig's Traveling Tomes for the delightful depictions of books. While Daggerbound is beautiful in its own right AND fits in beautifully with the theme started in the…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 2-1-26 It's our second "Winter Wonderland" weekend in a row! This is not what we moved to Atlanta for at all. But it sure is pretty as long as one is on the inside while the blizzard is OUTSIDE. But it's not completely outside as this picture of George certainly attests. The catio is fully screened in so the cats can't get out, but very small things can get in.

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Stacking the Shelves (690) This isn't exactly a "pretty" list, is it? Pretty interesting, yes. Pretty is as pretty does, perhaps. Outright pretty, not so much. Although Magic and Mischief at the Wayside Hotel and Trouble's Turn to Lose are both pretty cute and The Half Life is pretty in a realistic way. I guess they'll have to do. Very much on the other hand - or claw, as the case might be - …

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-25-26 We're supposed to be getting an ice storm today. So I'm probably huddled under a comforter with a good book and as many cats as I can get to cooperate. Not that cats are generally all that cooperative. OTOH, it could all blow over, or pass us by, or just not be, well, all that. The last option is what we're hoping for.

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Stacking the Shelves (689) This is another one of those stacks where there's more "pretty creepy" than there is just plain "pretty". The "pretty creepy" category includes The Way It Haunted Him and The Sleeping Sisters, while Snow Kissed is kinda creepy in that it might be predicting this weekend's weather for everyone east of the Mississippi. We don't normally get that much snow here in the ATL, but we might this weekend.

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-18-26 As you read this, I'm on the last day of a four-day marathon Zoom meeting and my brain is probably toast. This is a once a year thing, as whatever ALA committee I'm on for the year has its final deliberations meeting. It's generally a lot of fun, it's always fun to talk about good books, but four solid days of Zoom is just, well, A LOT.

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Stacking the Shelves (688) Unlike last week's stack, there are some truly pretty covers this time around. Especially All the Tea in China, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, and Our Perfect Storm. There's also some pretty creepy in Brimstone Hollow and The Museum of Unusual Occurrence. I definitely picked up You Had me at Bigfoot, while the books I'm most looking forward to getting into are…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-11-26 Last week, it seemed like there was all the time in the world. This week, not so much. Not nearly so much. Possibly not even enough.  And how was your first week back to the full-on daily grind? It's not that I'm not actually enjoying the return to routine - just that's there's so much of it! Even Tuna is tired by it all.

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Stacking the Shelves (687) Is it just me, or does this whole stack sort of just miss 'pretty'? If I HAD to pick, and I sorta/kinda do, I'd pick A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing and Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous. OTOH, The Black Cat Detectives are adorably cute and Bodies of Work creeps me right the hell out. Those black cats also represent one of the books I'm most curious about this week…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-4-26 Last week's cat picture was of Hecate looking back at the year that was passing. Not really, it was Hecate seeming to utterly reject the new cat we put out for her. What a difference a week makes! Today's picture is Hecate, IN that cat bed, giving me more than a bit of tortitude but claiming the whole thing for herself after all.

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Stacking the Shelves (686) Happy first weekend of the 2026. It's good to have you along on this journey for another year of (hopefully) fantastic reads! There are some pretty interesting covers this week, although pretty itself is always in the eye of the beholder. My personal picks for prettiness are The Chambermaid's Key, Death in the Palace, In the Spirit of French Murder…

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-28-25 This is the FINAL Sunday Post of 2025! It's almost time to say goodbye to this year - and I'm more than ready. But ready or not, 2026 is ON ITS WAY! I hope that each and every one of you has a fantastic New Year's celebration of the kind you most prefer and can look forward to a HAPPY 2026!

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