HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!!! New week, new month and it’s almost spring!! 🙂 Today’s list isn’t huge (tomorrow’s is going to be, though!!), but if I find more, I’ll add them in. Also!! I posted my latest review so in case you missed it yesterday, here it is again: Book Review – The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann.
And now…
Three things:
I watched I See You on Saturday and let me tell you, if this had been a book, this would have been the EXACT psych-thriller read I’m always looking for. I LOVED IT!! So clever and so many twists, and I kept guessing stuff (or assuming stuff) but when the reviews say you won’t be able to guess the ending, they were right!!!! At least for me. 😉 So much going on (despite being easy to follow) but it all made sense in the end. FANTASTIC!!!!
So my organic “Misfit Vegetables” box shipment last week had a HUGE Kohlrabi in it. I’ve never had one nor have I ever seen one before and so I tried to make it (chopped it into chunks and roasted it with cheese) and it’s… alright I guess. There was just so much of it (I mean this thing was the size of my head) so it was just a big job and a lot of vegetable. LOL!! I’d say it tastes pretty mild… like a cross from cabbage, cauliflower and maybe a bit of turnip? I dunno. Many say it’s a great potato substitute and I’d agree. Chops like a potato, and I bet it would mash nicely too.
My new favorite Keto snack (or meal replacement on occasion) are Quest bars. They’re pretty satisfying when my sweet tooth kicks in and a I want a cookie or something. In fact, many hint at heating them up in the microwave a bit or even cutting them into pieces and baking them in the oven like mini cookies. So I took a blueberry muffin one, and heated it up, and put just a touch of butter on it. YUMMY!! Just like putting a bit of butter on a real warm muffin, but… not. 😉
LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE 
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- One Night Stand-In (Boyfriend Material Book 3) by Lauren Blakely <— LAUREN BLAKELY ALERT!!! HE’S HER EX!!! “…he’s not only an ex-lover, he’s also an ex-friend. We didn’t just break up – we combusted in a spectacular bonfire of barbs and doors slammed. Nothing will change that. Not his clever wit, not his ridiculous good looks, not his unfair levels of charm. And definitely not a wild dash through the city that takes us on an accidental scavenger hunt through our past…”
- Virgin Flyer by Lucy Lennox <— M/M ROMANCE ALERT!!
- Marry Him by Marina Ford <— M/M ROMANCE ALERT!!
- Atlas (Eye Candy Ink Book 1) by Shaw Hart
Keep Me: A First Class Romance Collection <— ANTHOLOGY BY SOME OF OUR FAVORITES!!! A.L. Jackson, Ava Harrison, Kandi Steiner, Lauren Rowe, Meghan Quinn “Keep Me is a collection of five full-length novels from best selling authors.”- Obsessed by Bella Winters <— HER EX-STEP BROTHER IS A COP… “…Okay, he used to be my stepbrother. Our parents are no longer together. But that doesn’t make my secret crush acceptable. It’s still wrong to want him. And it’s still wrong to carry his baby. Damn, my mother is going to be furious. But he’s the only one who can find my stalker. Peter heads a police station.…”
- Hollywood Gossip: One diva. One DJ. One whole lot of drama by Kristina Adams
Supernatural Academy: Year Three by Jaymin Eve <— JAYMIN EVE ALERT!! “...Maddison has been fighting the gods from the first moment she found out they existed. Those arrogant and power hungry deities have a plan … a plan that includes destroying everything she holds dear, and she fears that one day soon, they’re going to succeed…”- Death Game: Supernatural Battle (Vampire Towers Book 3) by Kelly St. Clare
- Harbour (Blackbridge First Response Book 3) by Claire Boston <— SHE ESCAPES HIS ABUSE…“…She doesn’t love him anymore. But if she leaves him, she might pay the ultimate price… Alyse Wilson can’t remember the last time she felt safe in her own home. And after years of her abusive partner laundering money through her business, she doesn’t see any way out. But when rough seas threaten to sink her small craft, she’s stunned when she’s plucked from the waves by an old high-school friend...”
PREORDERS (going live soon!!! 😀 )
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City Book 1) by Sarah J. Maas – March 3rd 2020- Harbour (Blackbridge First Response Book 3) by Claire Boston – March 1st 2020
- Waiting for my Queen: A Dark Mafia Romance by Georgia Cates – March 3rd 2020
- The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu – March 3rd 2020
- Monogamy Book One. Lover: This is one love for life and beyond time by Victoria Sobolev – March 3rd 2020
- Lethal Game (A GhostWalker Novel Book 16) by Christine Feehan – March 3rd 2020
- The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A Novel by Josie Silver – March 3rd 2020
Chain of Gold (The Last Hours Book 1) by Cassandra Clare – March 3rd 2020- The Numbers Game: A Novel by Danielle Steel – March 3rd 2020
- Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel by Peter Swanson – March 3rd 2020
- Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life by Carrie Underwood – March 3rd 2020
- For the Win: A Wynn Hockey Novel by Kelly Jamieson – March 3rd 2020
- Mack (The Walkers of Coyote Ridge Book 8) by Nicole Edwards – March 3rd 2020
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich – March 3rd 2020
- Wildfire (Men of Inked: Heatwave Book 3) by Chelle Bliss – March 3rd 2020
- Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic Book 1) by Rin Chupeco – March 3rd 2020
- The Twin by Natasha Preston – March 3rd 2020
- Waiting for my Queen: A Dark Mafia Romance by Georgia Cates – March 3rd 2020
You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks – March 3rd 2020- One Night Stand-In (Boyfriend Material Book 3) by Lauren Blakely – March 4th 2020
- My Perfect Wife: An absolutely unputdownable domestic suspense novel by Clare Boyd – March 4th 2020
- Runaway Road by Denver Perry – March 6th 2020
- Dope Sick Love by by Hailey Weast-Hashbarger – March 6th 2020
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Good morning! I cant wait til spring. I’m already looking forward to planting my herb garden and hopefully some flowers too. I love trying new-to-me produce. I’ve never had kohlrabi but I think I remember reading it is good spiralized. I recently tried jicama (tastes like nothing) and fennel which is delicious. I only did fennel raw, haven’t tried roasting yet. I wicked want to try purple cauliflower (it’s so pretty) but hubs won’t eat it. Anyway…I just got Happiness for Beginners from library and not sure if I’m liking it or not. It *might* be a snoozer. But I have A Really Bad Idea by Jeannine Colette and Tragic by Deveny Perry coming up for my challenge reads for March. Fingers crossed I like them!
Purple cauliflower! I remember that. I’ve had it and the orange too, I believe. My fam was wary too, but it tastes exactly like regular cauliflower and I eventually won them over. I think I called it fairy cauliflower or something for 1 of them. 😂
I made a bag of frozen Italian cut green beans last night, they looked so fancy hubs asked if they were snap peas or something and he loved them. Were they fresh, he asked. 🤣🤣 I spend the least amount of time prepping veggies.
I love all the veggies I get. I’m a HUGE veggie eater (though not a vegetarian) veggies are always a part of my meals. Green beans are one of my favorites ever.
Ohhhh! I’m getting Fennel on my next shipment (I was allowed to choose it!!). I’ve never made it before so THAT will be exciting.
I’ve made something with fennel once. It was the first time I actually chopped up a bunch of veggies and baked them, like 10 years ago. I thought it was such hard work then. Lol! And some of the things weren’t what I was used to buying, it was something like this https://pin.it/JN9mcCD. Turned out really good though.
I loved A Really Bad Idea by Jeannine Colette!! I hope you enjoy it! I haven’t read Happiness is for Beginners yet…bummer to hear it’s slow….
Leslie–I loved Happiness for Beginners. IMO it picks up. And once she (the h) gets going on her thing that she does, parts of it are hilarious. I loved the audio, but Robin didn’t care for it. Still, she loved the book too. I hope it gets better for you!
Tasha–the only green beans hubs will each are the Italian ones. I quit buying any other kind years ago.
1. I ordered 2 plant stands that’ll arrive tomorrow. 1 for my tree, so just a little one and 1 that has several ledges that’s more narrow and tallish to save room. That’ll go in my room that has North + West light for the plants that can’t take the harshness of my Southern window. It is the only other windows in the house that provide adequate lighting so I hope it revives some that weren’t doing so well. Especially when summer rolls around. I feel like I’m constantly in a state of practice, but I’m super determined to work it out this time, lol.
2. I only read 5% more last night before I crashed. 🙁
3. It’s 50 degrees outside and I’m taking my car through the wash. It’s a rainy, overcast day but it gives us something to do and I think it’s been a year. I’ve noticed my car is the dirtiest in the lot, lol.
YAY PLANT STANDS!! I ended up using the cute one-seater stools from my tiny wood table project to hold my plants.
And omg yes…. my car needs a wash too, and I forgot to tell this story in the three things, but I need a new windshield altogether.
BIG HUGE CRACK right down the middle and then it curves to the right. ROAR!!! Stupid mercury in retrograde and things breaking. Luckily they’re coming tomorrow to replace it.
Omg, how the heck did that happen?! I wish I had a stool to use, it was just easier to find something on Amazon rather than run all over antiquing or something. And I like the height and location on my end table, just doesn’t fair we’ll for those trying to watch the tv from there. I measured up a storm for all this and I’m so terrible at math, I hope I did right. Lol!!
I’m not sure… I do remember last week hearing a huge cracking noise (something obviously smacked into my windshield) and I looked at it quickly while driving, sure it was going to be cracked… but there was nothing and I never thought about it again. Until Friday when I noticed it growing. And I was all, What the…? We have a lot of huge rock trucks on my daily route so I have a feeling something like that.
That could make for a very creepy story! Glad it wasn’t more serious though.
Oooh, maybe I need to get a good stand for my spider plant?? I want it to be able to grow down and make babies. I was going to hang it, but there just isnt good spot to hang.
That would be pretty. Just to elevate it and you can move it around without putting holes in your wall.
Ooooh, I just caught up on the latest Good Girls episode, it had me holding my breath!!
Good afternoon! Happy Monday!
1) I still can’t read a book. I’m trying to listen to The Good Girl by Mary Kubica and I’m struggling. It’s not bad. I’m just not immersed. And then I see a bunch of my GR friends gave it either 3 or 4 stars–no 5 star ratings and that makes me want to move on to something else. Like maybe Hidden Bodies.
2) My granddaughter that’s coming on 4/10 has a name! Elizabeth Ann. (Ann is a family name that my stepdaughter, her mom, and her grandmother all share.)
3) I’m hooked on wasabi peas. I could eat them morning, noon, and night! Love the nose burn!
I have an Elizabeth Ann in my family. She’s always been called Lizann. Congrats on your new soon to be grand baby!! Girls are a treat, so easy to spoil. ☺️
If you’re in the mood for a thriller, I might suggest FantasticLand just because it reads like a thriller/horror, but is fantasy at the same time. OR Emma in the Night. That was unputdownable for me. Ooooh or how about Sundown Motel? Oh shoot, you know what? The Other People is really intricate and keeps you on your toes. Way more than the synopsis leads on.
Otherwise, when I’m in a rut, I go for funny, fantasy, or watch tv/movies. Good luck!
Thanks, Tasha! I’ll put all of these on my tbr.
I have three boys but if I had a daughter, her name would have been Elizabeth Ann!!!!! Lizzie Ann for short.
OMG I want to love wasabi peas but it hurts me too bad. I can barely stand any Wasabi anything (and I like spicy!!). Go figure! I even tried wasabi seaweed crisps and I suffered through the whole package. LOL!!! Yep… I ate ’em anyway. 😂
Happy Monday! I spent the weekend going down the Helena Newberry rabbit hole after those Alaska Wild recommendations on Friday (thank you to those who recommended it!). I finished Alaska Wild plus two more of her books and I loved them all. Her fast-pace suspense/romance combo is a welcome change from other stuff that I’ve been reading lately.