2026/Q1

 

Finally, a set of weight graphs that I'm proud to post. Not there yet, but progress! This is very similar to my loss at the end of 2020, the start of 2021. Five years ago, I started in October and hit my low in April. This go round, I started in December ... and I hope to surpass my last low, and then to keep it there (I regained quickly back in 2021).  It's been a mix of increased activity and reduced calories/IMF ... pretty textbook calories in vs calories out. 

I've upped my activity ... not quite an average of 20k consistently, but close. 

Activity minutes are up as well.  Fitbit tracking/graphs.

The burn isn't up much (from last quarter) even with the increased activity ... 

I guess because I'm not lugging quite as much weight while I workout. 

But the intake ... there is a difference there!

I've always struggled with the eating. I love carbs and sugar, and those calories add up quickly. I think I always justified a little, that I was burning a bunch, so I could still indulge. But I'd overindulge. I'd TRY to stay under 2000 (which I know is a high "goal) and fail at that most of the time.  Pretty much from the moment I took the first shot of Tirzepatide though, I just felt more in control. I've never experienced the "stuffed" feeling, or elimination of cravings as some on GLP-1s have reported. I still can/do eat, and enjoy it. I have tried to make better quality choices, priotitizing protein.

I hadn't totally committed to Intermittant Fasting ... but I think I just fell into the schedule again naturally. I'm generally not hungry in the mornings, and "closing the window" helps keep me from evening snacking. I got a full fast in a couple times this quarter.

A look at Lifecycle ...

... lots of basketball January/February (in person watching #2, and catching the livestream of my #5 playing for a community college in Oregon) but TREADMILL still tops my activity, with Zumba and Elliptcal not far behind. Ping pong and Pickleball are up next. I've attempted to up my strength training in addition to my cardio. 

Ahh, sleep ...

I don't feel like my schedule is that different, but my Fitbit hasn't been syncing great when I wake ... if I laze in bed for a bit (as I tend to do) it still counts me as asleep. I probably should set a goal to get up (and out of bed) a little earlier. I always thought I was an "early to bed" gal ... but I guess not (and "early/late" is relative). 

... very happy with my snore score this quarter too! Single digits for the most part! I always felt like it was weight related (although a bout of Covid in 2022 also seemed to change something physically in me, making it worse). I think it's positional too, if I'm sleeping on my back, I'm more likely to snore.

I still need to do my family update/collages ... 

What I Was Watching ~ 2026/Q1 got it's own post, per usual.

Here's a look at #JenBsBooks for January, February and March

2026/Q1 ~ What I Was Watching (Jan, Feb, March)

Time for my quarterly TV/Movie update ... what kept me motivated while working out in the home gym, and what Hubs and I indulged in (our TVTT - TV Together Time) in January, February and March 2026.

I'll start with the series ... we don't keep Paramount and AppleTV all the time, but we had both during this quarter. Add ons to Amazon. I purposely tried to watch anything of interest to me on these platforms while we had a subscription (cancelled Apple, but Paramount gave us a deal for a couple more months).  We keep Netflix, and I watched a few there as well.

• Landman (Season 2): Hubs had watched the first season on his own, so I watched it myself (in the gym) but we watched the second season together. Enjoyed it.
• Colin From Accounts (Seasons 1-2): I'd watched this myself some years ago, and thought Hubs might enjoy it, and I was feeling up to a rewatch. Love an Australian accent!
• Lioness (Season 2): I'd watched the first season, and was interested enough to watch season 2.
• The Morning Show (Season 4): This was actually why we added AppleTV, but when we started watching it, it had been long enough since we'd seen the earlier seasons, that Hubs had lost interest. I ended up watching it on my own downstairs.
• The Last Frontier: A random "what should I watch on Apple" pick ... just okay. 
• We Crashed: I'd heard a little about this, it was interesting, but I was more than ready for it to be over. It reminded me a bit of another docu/drama (based on true events) The Dropout, in that I didn't like AnneH at all ... or more her character (meaning she did a good job I think), strange affectations, but they match the real person.
• The New Look: Again, interesting, but I was ready to move on as I wrapped up the season.
• Yellowjackets (Seasons 1-3): I'd heard some buzz (pun intended) about this one but had just never gotten around to watching. It was pretty horrible (not the acting or anything, just the story itself), but couldn't quite look away. I'm sure I'll watch the final season when it comes out, but for now, I was more than ready to take a break. 
• Stranger Things (Season 5): I wanted to wait until everything had dropped. I liked the ending (my youngest son, a fan, didn't like how it wrapped up). 
• Emily in Paris (Season 4): I really surprise myself that I like this show, it's so over the top ... but it's a guilty pleasure.
• Bridgerton (Season 4): Another guilty pleasure. Surprised at the "Cinderella" storyline. 
• Nobody Wants This (Season 2): I'd enjoyed the first season, and liked the second season too. 
• The Tylenol Murders: This popped onto my radar after reading the book "No More Tears" ... it was interesting. I think I was in 5th grade when it happened, but I really remember the terror!
• Kidnapped/Elizabeth Smart: This made headlines all over, but even more so here in Utah. I'd read Elizabeth's memoir, and Hubs had watched this, so I figured I would too. A little too "artsy" ... just the way they would frame the sister and Elizabeth visually. 

Hubs and I didn't watch any movies together ... these were all down in the gym. 

• Tetris: I really enjoyed this and have encouraged Hubs to give it a go ... he decided to the day after I let the Apple subscription lapse (so it's on his list for next time we subscribe). 
• Wolfs: Just okay for me ... although the overall ratings weren't great either.
• The Family Plan 2: Silly, fluffy fun. I'd liked the first one. If I'd known this was "Christmas" themed, I probably wouldn't have watched it (because of the OCD in me, I need to keep seasonal things in season!)
• The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio: A random pick from Paramount offerings ... and I liked it a lot! I did some editorial work and needed to come up with clever titles, using rhyme, puns and alliteration. The husband/alcohol was a struggle to watch.
• Roofman: Eh, just okay. 
• Regretting You: I think I read the book ... just okay. 
• Becoming Jane: When I went to record this on my IMDB list, it was already there ... so I guess I watched it at some point? I didn't really feel like I remembered it. I also read a book about Jane Austen not long after watching this.
• Crazy Stupid Love: A purposeful rewatch. 
• Eternity: I'd seen previews for this and it was one I was watching for. I really enjoyed it.
• Rental Family: Another one I'd been waiting for, and Hubs had watched it during one of his flights and gave it a thumbs up. 

What are YOU watching?

2025/Q4

 

... after avoiding the doctor for all of 2024, I went in for a basic physical ... got labs. Thyroid very out of whack (my prescription had lapsed) and A1C and cholesterol aren't great. Not super surprising. After my appointment at the end of October, I had a few "good days" (the dip in the scale reading) but then went back to bad habits in November.  Dec 1 I made a decision. I'd been reading up on GLP1 medications, and decided to start. I went with compounded Tirzepatide from Brello. While I was waiting for my order to come, I did a full day fast, which did a five pound/temporary scale slide. I started the medication on December 10, at the lowest/starting dose. At first I didn't feel anything, bad or good, but then I noticed that I was able to keep calories in check, and the scale started to move. 

I upped my activity a little, at least compared to the previous three months.  The low day Nov8, Hubs and I were traveling (to Oregon to watch our youngest in a college basketball tournament), and same there for the week after Christmas. 

... I really had been TRYING to be good and lose some weight before my doctor's appointment. I actually tracked calories in October. I'm not sure why I gave up counting in November. With the addition of some "help" and increased motivation, I tracked calories, and controlled them a little better in December. Again, the last week was traveling, which brings extra challenges. 

Once upon a time, Fitbit had a nice "intake vs burn" graph (look WAY back on some monthly reports here).  These separated intake (above) and burn (below) don't have quite the same effect. 

Here's a look at Lifecycle ...

I manually add my treadmill, elliptical and weights (all done in my home gym). Some of the basketball has been in person (my #2 has some local men's leagues, and then the two Oregon tournaments we went to for my #5) and others have been watched via live stream. 

Sleep, Zzzzzzz .... yes, there were a few BAD nights in there, with little to no real rest, but overall, sleep isn't something I struggle with. I'm lucky I get to be lazy and sleep in ...

... a couple of the high nights, I had had taken an Ambien (after a lower night of non-sleep). The reduction in December though, with even just a little weight loss, is promising ...

... family quarterly recap

https://blackhamboys.blogspot.com/2026/04/blackham-bunch-quarterly-report-q42025.html

I did a What I Was Watching post, and here's a Book Look! #JenBsBooks

2025/Q4 ~ What I Was Watching (Oct, Nov, Dec)

Time for my quarterly TV/Movie review ... what kept me motivated while working out in the home gym, and what Hubs and I relaxed to upstairs.  Here's what I was watching in October, November and December of 2025. 

• Andor: Hubs had wanted to watch this one ... I'm not a super StarWars fan, and found it just okay. He ended up watching the second season on his own. 
• Pluribus: I hadn't heard of this one when Hubs brought it up, but TONS of buzz after, and I was glad we had gotten it in. It was intriguing. 
• Dead to Me (Seasons 1-3): I had watched this some years ago but thought it might be a good "together time" watch, and Hubs enjoyed it. 
• Handmaid's Tale (S5): We haven't kept Hulu all the time, but as I'd added it (more to get Disney for Andor) I figured I'd return to this world. 
• Devil in the Family: Another one of the "when we have Hulu" shows I had on my radar. As this happened in Utah, and I'd read the book by the oldest daughter, it was an interesting followup for me. Hubs ended up watching it after I gave him a nudge. 
• Smash (S1-2): I'd seen the first season years ago and felt it was time for a rewatch, and I didn't even know there was a second season.  I had to buy the first season (not streaming anywhere) but it was added to Prime not long after my purchase. Watched some while traveling. 
• Acapulco (S2): I'd liked season 1 ... downloaded this to my phone to watch on the plane during a family vacation. 
• Paradise: I'd heard a bit of buzz about this, but went into it cold, therefore the twist at the end of episode 1 really caught me. LOVED the music, haunting covers. I recommended it to Hubs. 
• The Patient: Kept my interest.

• The Count of MonteCristo: We'd enjoyed the 2002 version, and Hubs wanted to see this 2024 one. It took a while before it was available in the US ... watched via Hoopla. 
• Hamilton: Rewatch for me ... I was surprised at how much I remembered/knew.
• The Greatest Showman: Another rewatch. Musical mood and Disney access. 
• The Jane Austen Book Club: Not intentional, but a rewatch (I hadn't remembered I'd seen it). 
• The Lost Bus: This was good, action packed. 
• Thunderbolts: I was a little surprised I liked this as much as I did. 
• Snow White: This had been attacked ... some was okay, but it wasn't great.
• Turning Red: I'd heard of this one, figured I'd give it a try ... just ehhhh for me.
• Reefer Madness: Umm ... not sure what to say about this one. "A musical ... "
• Christmas Plus One: Obligatory Christmas movie

What have YOU been watching?

 

Book Notes ~ 2025

 

As I listen to an audiobook (my main method of absorbing stories for several years now) I'll try to stop and jot down things ... words, phrases, pronunciations, questions, items I will want to mention in my review on Goodreads when I finish.  I can't always stop (if I'm driving, or hands messy mixing sourdough), and other times instead of pulling up my NOTE I keep for this purpose, I'll turn to my computer and pull up the Kindle copy, making notes/highlights there. So while this list may not be completely complete, it's fun to me to see at a glance what I jotted down whilst listening throughout the year (reverse chronological order) ...

See my Book Notes 2024 and Book Notes 2023 too ... This is just the smallest peek at some thoughts on my reads - full rating/reviews for all on Goodreads and Storygraph. I'm JenBsBooks on both.

Bone Valley

Dais 

Secrets We Kept 

Molted our jackets 

Cerulean Dias (long I) 

Winter Solstice

Song sung 

Panacea halcyon caprice 

Assignation detritus archaic 

Abstemious sybaritic 

Life&Death&Giants

Frenetic swath snuck

Snow Falling on Cedars

Quite the back stories 

Espaliered  jury rigged 

Sex/penis descriptions 

Scrupulosity quiescent 

Once Upon a Midnight

Cravat (CRA-vet) foil-ige 

Kind eyes 

Firefly lane

Musical transitions- phone calls 

Mullioned windows  

Cranes fly

Female priest 

Sneaked 

Lost story  of Eva

Ablutions 

Sneaked ? 

Guardian and the Thief 

Carom 

Lapis lazuli cerulean  

billionaire- female

Pretending to Dance

Kitty corner 

Kudzu

Blind Your Ponies

Song spoken - man of lamancha 

Song sung - little town of Bethlehem 

Snuck sneaked 

Shackelton’s Arctic expedition 

Dean’s voice in audio (annoying) 

Frenetic carom 

Give the calf, beer truck backing, keep cooking 

Emma 3

I digress 

Bookclub for TroublesomeWomen

3rd person - I needed a header/ something more for pic switch. Whose head??

Mullioned windows  

Swath anathema frenetic 

Snuck deign 

Cracking wise

Chubby

Dissolution

Fugue (*Wordle word)

Chess 

The Maid

Skeletal …ska-Lee-tal (but not British)

25 Library Terrace

Careered  

Covid connection

Buckeye

Swath

Hoe-stas pronunciation (hostas plant) 

Wide berth 

Dress Shop

Swathes of fabric 

Ruffled sneaked 

Lapis blue cerulean 

Heart the Lover

1st person- present tense 

2nd (you’re) 

Tuberculosis 

Trust

Profit can correspond to public good 

Riffle  Narrative

Carnegie (standard pronunciation)

What My Bones Know 

Swath Fitbit fetid(*Wordle Word) 

Apropos of nothing 

Trying to find a therapist/match/insurance 

Table for 5

A-que-zatary accusatory 

Exploit-a-tive 

Heir Apparent P&P

Deign dearth 

Nursing babies

Night emissions - sex

Ch46/ confusion when Miss door died

James illegitimate, Mr Bennett steps up

Kitty had a twin - late pregnancy Mrs Bennett 

Mary- larger role

Cousin Anne letters 

The Cat I Never Named

Cacophony  

Sexual talk- mg? 

Heartwood

Covid connection 

Arcane cacophony surfeit  swath 

Solito

Song sung 

Old age is not for cowards 

Careless People

Deign 

Small Great Things

A bit repetitive - different POVs - different things revealed, but scenes/conversations repeat  

Wide berth narrative 

Shine (prequel) Frenetic 

Emma

Swaths denizen 

In this sign

Katty corner  fetid 

The nine

French?

Frenetic. Bucolic fetid 

Song sung - old lang sign (tune)

SkeLEETal

The Memory Collector’s

Spotify audiobooks … on Libby 

Fetid frenetic

Song sung 

Firekeepers Daughter

Pretty lie over an ugly truth

Death - past tense except for grief-present

Osmosis cacophony

“Call me Grant” 

Wisdom

Inaction is a powerful choice 

What Does it Feel Like

Song sung 

Bespoke 

A Gentleman in Moscow 

Lapis lazuli. Arcane quixotic penultimate 

Mirror salt

Dias  idiom. Axiomatic  paucity denizen 

Carnegie (general pronunciation) 

Resigned vs reconciled   Snuck 

Singing a song about a lack of bananas 

The studious reader will recall … 

Moon

1st person/present (except memories)- conversational, talk to reader 

Photogram 

Throw steak knives  pine cones close

Doesn’t make decisions- but doesn’t give a choice

Swathes of pink. Murmuration cacophony 

Collect words 

Fonts change words  

Lapis lazuli    Salt 

The Corespondent 

On Muscle

De rigueur   Nascent 

Not just lift heavy things- but lift myself 

Michael Angelo   Oliver Sacs Pop

Quotidian palimpsest 

The Will of the many

Cloak swathes her 

Swathes of the stadium 

Swathes of her life 

Snuck trireme fetid

Hate is its own violence 

After the End

3 narrators- 2 1st, L 3rd present tense all

So selfish … ch11 end

Swathes of fabric

Careers rifled fetid 

The Reformatory

Swathed in bandages 

Swath of the field 

Swath of the campus 

Song spoken - wade in the water 

Snuck cacophony 

The Book of Lost Hours 

Frenetic cacophony 

Familiar cage 

The Compound

Swaths of flame 

Detritus snuck 

When the Ground is Hard

Song subscribe- this little light  

The Names

Tops tell about a person

Covid 

We won’t all survive

Griffin Sisters

Bad TOC- hard to follow pov

Deign panoply hectoring snuck 

Song spoken 

It doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. 

Bury our Bones … 

Death is a freedom

Belief- easy when it’s the way you want 

Snuck patina 

Song spoken “found my way home” 

Midnight Bookshop

Present tense- 3 POVs 

Great Gatsby. Oliver Twist. One Flew …

ProFanity 

Brusque - broosk 

For all intents and purposes 

Istanbul or Constantinople 

Bookclub bring people together

First convo with new hubs (part6) -lots of “said” in memory 

The Book of Lost Friends

Osmosis idiom Carnegie 

Song sung “wade in the water” 

A Marriage at Sea

Swath penultimate 

Intro action - then repeated 

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Grounded - restriction

Snuck 

… until the devil served popsicles

… like a bullfrog in a pond

Hair pulling mad 

Catamount katty corner 

Light skinned colored or sun tanned white

You can’t use someone else’s bad behavior to excuse your own (end of ch14) 

… as nervous as a toad in front of a lawnmower 

Echo Man

My Cousin Rachel 

Bucolic 

Atmosphere

Authors note (audio author) /snuck 

JuliaWhelan 3rd person/present tense 

Cerulean cacophony 

Slayer

Tarts that pop 

October in the Earth

Don’t mind telling you (to reader)

Foreshadow- I was a good girl back then

Proper Christian woman 

Wacky cake 

Proper woman - kept my mouth shut 

Deign mischievous (3) cacophony 

Bellwether 

Swath of sand 

Michael without Apology

Fall back or no net 

The First Witch of Boston

Prologue spoiler 

Deign peridot 

The Best Part of Love P&P

Mischievous (4) 

Assignation 

Opine ablutions (abolitions) politic chagrined- Strange pronunciations 

The False Flat

Live for today 

Snuck 

Solar Fury

Sneaked 

Dare to refuse such a man P&P

Cacophonous deign equipag 

Horse- Puck 

Mischievous-3 

Shakespeare

With great wealth comes great responsibility 

Puma Years

Swath cacophony 

Steel house Lake

Careen 

Third Wheel

Audio repeat fast and furious territory 

Hokey cokey  cacophony 

Fine Mind P&P 

Allegedly

He who fights monsters

Lots of “said” 

Breath he didn’t know he was holding

Roil cacophony rifled 

Who Loves You Best

Snuck anathema careen accoutrements 

Chocolate babka 

A Tribute of Fire 

Dais  sneaked deign snuck 

Being Mrs Darcy P&P DNF 

Male narrator. 3rd person

Unlikeable Georgiana

Tom Romsly. FitzWilliam? 

Suddenly Mrs Darcy P&P

1st person- past tense 

Swath. Purloined 

Carriage x60 - Barouche 

Life

Sneaked 

Enamoured P&P 

Apropos of nothing

deign bilious x3

Vacuous. Panegyric 

Bridges (valet? “His man”) 

Bed in the Shed

2pov- first person (same narrator) 

Headers in audio- not book 

Britishisms- rota, catch-up 

Bespoke  career 

Connections - 

Falling For Mr Darcy

Valet - Rogers

Horse- Salazar 

Assignation 

Abscond

Mischievous (4) snuck 

Sisterhood 

Deign snuck anathema roiling 

Jane Austen  whirling dervish 

Sleep when I’m dead - no 

Brotherhood 

Modernity is the anachronism 

She seems … caffeinated 

It was Danica all over again … 

Enamoured - P&P

Apropos of nothing 

I Thought You Said This Would Work

1st person/past/ no profanity 

Swath

shaved head 

Kind eyes 

Utah mischievous (3)  

P&P- Audible original

On GoodReads? 

City of the Forgotten - Trackers#9

Mischievous (3syllable in audio) 

Deign dais snuck

So Material a Change- P&P 

Equipage carriage 

Sneaked perambulated

Whirling dervish  arms akimbo 

Theo of golden

Dandelion wine book

To kill a mockingbird

Quixotic scrum cacophony 

Read, bow, … Siri 

Ornithology 

The Wizard’s Butler

Snuck anathema perspicacious 

Mischievous (4 syllable in audio)

Wide berth 

One Lavender Ribbon 

Snuck 

Conundrums and Coincidences P&P

Curricle penultimate dais 

“Ghastly guidance you gave”

The Travels of Dr Rebecca Harper

1st person/present tense

Wrack and ruin 

Unrequited (unWreck-wu-Ted) 

Grayson 

Good Grief

Song sung 

Barbara - other book

This is real life, not a book 

Lover’s Knot p&p 

First person/ present tense/male narrator 

Ablutions phaeton 

The Naturalist

Arcane cerulean 

To name a thing is to know a thing 

Preternatural swath 

Sex- lgbtq 

Kiss Cam

Utah - delta center/jazz

Out of the water like Colin Firth at pemberly 

Wide berth snuck 

Kind eyes 

A Heart’s Secret P&P 

Swathed escritoire

Faded Photo

Christian fiction? God 

Snuck 

Love Unfeigned P&P 

Valet Brisby 

Scorpio

3rd person/present tense 

Narrow berth ;) 

Lots of profanity 

Audio- Rowt (route) young girl narrator 

Friends with Secrets 

Riffled bucolic atavistic 

Pemberly/MrDarcy 

Assignation cacophanous 

Mother/Nicoke’s worries about worst that might happen (funnies) 

“Indeed, it is I, aunt Nikki” 

Casement windows 

The LakeHouse at Ramsgate P&P

Deign cacophony plethora 

His side and sighed 

An Ocean Between Us

2 timelines. Present/Past tense 

Soporific 

Whirling dervish 

Body and Soul -P&P

HarryFrost (bought combo Audible) 

Ablutions dearth snuck 

Darcy horse - Horace 

The Garden of Memories 

3rd person / present tense 

Plethora cerulean deign anathema 

Rose/Flora/Sally (Daisy)

Brusque - Bruce-k (British)

Hedgerows 

Chapter 7 “rose imagines…” narrator clears throat and starts again. Editing error 

Boxes. Lighthouse. 

Drink driving 

I See You Called In Dead

Apropos of nothing 

For all intents and purposes 

Come From Away

Peripatetic 

The Elizabeth Papers

Slow(1.7) swallowing??  Sequel 

1st person and 3rd

Cress-seed-a

End - son named Bennet Darcy

Three Mothers

Roil swath plethora obstreperous frenetic 

… hears the ellipsis 

Wide berth 

British - French stick 

Swathing in heat 

Swathes of grief 

The Woman Who Met Herself

Ku text Hoopla audio

3rd person- present tense 

Against Every Expectation P&P 

Deign perspicacity 

Wide berth  Shakespeare mentioned 

Phaeton escritoire

Epilogue- Bennet Darcy, anne&CF, no Jane/Bingley  

Jeremy Renner- my next breath 

By Any Other Name

Kind eyes 

Dais swathes orthogonal 

Anachronistic 

for all intents and purposes 

Watching P&P by cats on YouTube

Let out breath didn’t know was holding 

Beswitched -P&P

The Warmth of her Affection- P&P

Supercilous   Deign  panegyrics

1 Curricle 27 carriage 

 There’s Something About Mira

We are our own prisons  

Kind eyes 

Snuck sneaked 

Most interesting man P&P

Bingley - buffoon  (homosexual thoughts about Darcy?) more sexual 

Plethora - two plethoras  careering 

Methuselah- Medusa - Hansel/gretel 

Cerulean cacophony ejaculation  purloined 

Robin

Quotidian frenetic panoply 

Versailles - audio ver-sales ?

Raison detre 

Carom

Fearful Symmetry - P&P

Ablutions sibilant purloined adage susurration hedgerow rifled 

Cacophonous perambulation perpecacity 

Valet-Roberts  Dog- Caesar 

Can’t trespass when welcome 

Shakespeare- comedy 

Deign 

Desk- escritoire 

Carriage, chaise and four, phaeton, Curricle 

Sawtooth Bookclub

Not want to say the prayer

Dated? 

Watch Longmire/song but no book names 

Hallmark!!

Disenchanted - P&P

Plethora deign 

Chaise and four 

Slanting Toward the Sea

Osmosis adage susurrus roiling careen 

Fuller my hands- emptier my head 

P2 ch25 walk bent as if been hit 

Home no less broken still together 

Hard in oneself in the dark 

Not having sex makes people more uncomfortable than having sex 

son - try harder 

Afraid of loss so much, do the cutting myself 

Infertility 

Chick pea soup - perfected 

Cicada- mate then die

Slanting light - title 

Hadley and Grace

3 narrators - accent 

Coach-Blue 

Cerulean 

GOLD eyes? And hair (jimmy) 

Monarch/Moon

Don’t make me turn this life around

Amy McFadden

Biennial nascent preternatural

Swath adage Aphorism frenetic

Exhaled breath hadn’t realized I was holding 

Abandoned at the Alter- P&P

Supercilious adage

Apropos of nothing 

For all intents and purposes 

Insult to injury? 

Variation

Sneaked snuck roiled 

anachronism 

Nicholas Sparksville (location)😂

More Than pretty Face -P&P

Jane’s voice low - not in narration 

Ablutions deign peridot

Equipage 

Some Other Time

3rd person/present tense. Detached 

Swathed peridot 

For all intents and purposes 

Love Never Fails - P&P

Plethora  supercilious 

Old Boys

Plethora deign snuck

Some Particular Evil - P&P

Deign rifling 

Not Curricle - fayton 

Valet- Barnes 

Every Precious and Fragile Thing

Chyron cerulean frenetic deign lapis 

Hectoring cacophony 

Title tie / ch3

Both 3rd and 1st person 

Breath she didn’t realize she was holding 

Kiefer -keFear 

A Case of Some Delicacy P&P

Several Povs (d&e … Lydia, Anne letters)

Confessions of a Grammar Queen 

Frank voice - a dog ;) 

Time- 60s? 

Kind eyes  wider berth 

cerulean nascent idiom snuck

Orthogonal 

Mauve- mOve 

Not a hot dog  - or burger or pizza

Women running -  

Dog storyline

The blues - mubbleFubbles 

From Pemberly to GG P&P

Harry Frost narrator- don’t like female voices

3rdpov but too many insights (d, e, Lydia, bingley, Jane, Mary 

Nincompoop  swathed 

Many epilogues!!

Hamnet 

Preternatural dais lapis cacophony 

Plague origin/fleas… Contagion 

Hollow Fires 

Aphorisms deign Chyron  rifled 

Age to rent a car 

The Art of Apology - P&P

Stevie Zimmerman 

Curricle

Mr Darcy coming off better …

Seabiscuit

Cacophony maxim forebears

Ostreperous as his sire 

For all intents and purposes  wide berth 

Roil scrum aphorisms halcyon careen 

Excoriation 

Done for the Best- P&P

Deign cacophony 

Curricle 

Ch33- that’s what she sayed 

The Secret Library of Hannah Reeves

Swath. Snuck bespoke idiom dais elegy 

Breath she hadn’t realized she was holding 

Luxury of Silence -P&P

Stevie Zimmerman

Breath didn’t know was holding x2

Deign roil Murmuration umbrage

For all intents and purposes x2

Turbid supercilious fecundity 

Rolling Toward Clear Skies

Kate Rudd

Scrum

Prophet Song 

Need audio- kindle blocks of text

A Most Excellent Understanding P&P

Preternatural ablutions 

Ducks - bread 

Bitter Mournings P&P

Dearth 

Audio- lady Catherine’s voice (yuck)

Adrift

Sneaked 

Audio- totoro, Tagalog 

Dog sounds in audio 

The Seven Sins of F Darcy- P&P 

Curricle swath akimbo 

Assignation ablutions 

Nincompoop supercilious 

Pennywithers- same author 

Ch11 ch24

Me w wastrel, Waggish w words 

Bachelor MrDarcy - P&P

Swath

Roadside Sisters 

Snuck 

Dogs vs cats 

Alice in Zombieland (A music borrow)

Snuck

iPod (music) 

The Zepher - P&P

1st person

Cacophony. Career(careen) 

Murmuration dearth cerulean 

“Make love” usage 

Our missing hearts 

Swathed rifles riffles 

Living rough 

Unfounded- P&P

Mr gardener “my wife allowed me…”

Anathema scant dearth surfeit

Swathed deign cerulean

Wide berth panacea mullion (windows)

Grave Talk

Tenterhooks  plethora nemesis scrum

Reception “icy”? 😂 

Covid 

The Poppy Fields

Swathes adage cacophony snuck 

Limbs akimbo nascent deign plethora 

Thruple katty corner brisket burnt ends 

Song spoken (imaginary/Dean’s song)

Sasha(Korean) hmart 

No Less Resentment P&P

Penultimate perfidious detritus Dias 

Seldom smirk accoutrements careen

Ch40 - refuse to be ruined 

If this were a novel- too much to believe

Nemesis perambulation 

Everyone in my Family … 

Skip the line (audio hoopla)

Separate bedrooms

Preternatural

Wide berth 

Memorial Day

Author narrated - past and present

Pellucid pogrom quotidian cacophony accoutrements yin/yang

Mullioned windows bucolic 

Kind eyes 

Covid 

Guncle Abroad

5 Love Languages

Lots of book/movie references

Deign panoply sneaked taupe idiom

Sequel - negate happy ending 

Adoring your partner reflect well on you 

The Pact 

Libby, not Kindle, but $2

Narrator fit? 

3rd person - slight struggle tracking changing povs (time switches too)

Sex- not steamy/spicy, overly explicit but more than some might be comfortable with // separate bedrooms 

For all intents and purposes 

Rictus dearth

The Slow March of Light

Note- Joseph b Worthlin quote 

Utah connection//lds- churchy 

Cacophony roil   wide berth

Taking to a new plateau 

*in an instant

Preternatural swathes roil rifle 

Kind eyes    Wide berth

Only bad under the circumstances ch72

Educated

Tumid 

Seldom swath obsolecense 

Felt poorly 

*The Guncle

… at least you weren’t married

Treatment by family - not included 

Nemesis thruple 

The Midnight School

Rifled surfeit propitious spurious 

Brung afeared halp 

Wide berth   Kind eyes 

Dais adage. Seldom 

 

One Golden Summer

Nerve-racking 

King of Ashes

Detritus deign plethora 

Reptilian Javier

Modernity paucity panoply cacophony 

H-Mart

Song spoken

Snuck

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 

Same narrator as Secret Life of Bees 

Kind eyes. Hoopla

The Marriage Act 

Penultimate avuncular 

Snuck 

Apropos of nothing 

Midnight Children - DNF (too many ready holds, this was one Mom borrowed)

Conspicuously 

A fine Balance

Needs edit - disks announced 

Preternatural accouterments deign 

Ablutions peon pugnacious 

Wide berth 

Aphorisms maxim 

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Gay-zay-bo - 18

Dais, cacophony, cerulean, ablutions 

Jengas Khan 

Riffled, ruffled

Wide berth 

The House in the Cerulean Sea

3rd person- Present … but didn’t notice 

Gay-zay-bo in audio 

Cacophony

Wide berth 

Gone Crazy in Alabama 

PS be 11

Lady Tan

Garden of fragrant delights 

Bedroom affairs -night sports 

3 precious things (male parts) 

Child palace (uterus)

Dias - pronounced die-us 

Horrible- midwife treatment (death better?)

All Thirteen

Does feel YA

You - to reader

3rd person/ Present tense 

Authors note - as a mother (male narrator)

Names - easier in print 

Ordinary Grace

sneaked preternatural seldom 

Carom

Epilogue.

Discussion questions/author interview

Seven o clock Club

Sing spoken 

Fireworks night 

The Push

Tense- 2nd, written account too husband(you). 1st person/past tense 

Snuck

My Friends

Snuck 

Kind eyes 

Song spoken 

Junie

3rd person/Present tense

Snuck. Rifled cerulean 

Aphorisms 

Slave - harder? Died or sold away? 

Up to Heaven

Seldom anathema 

Swath bucolic preternatural nascent 

Anodyne halcyon 

Reading before signing 

So many cancer warnings- ignore

Ministry of time

Franklin expedition

Lots of metaphors/simile 

Miscegenation anodyne 

route(root) brusque (br-oo-sk)

Perspicacity hectoring excoriation 

Cerulean quotidian cacophany 

Apropos of nothing // feeling poorly

Jury rigged plethora anachronism 

Idiom panoply 

God of bones and sinew 

Fx33 

Circus Train

Plethora bespoke accoutrements pogrom

Riffled scant career snuck

Nascent 

Cerulean 

In between bookstore

Cacophony careen 

Route (Rowt)

The Vanishing Act 

Snuck rifled roiling 

Violet eyes 

A flicker in the dark 

Math - always the same 

How To End a Love Story

3rd person but two narrators

Present tense 

Lots of he says/she says 

Family suicide chance increase - Program

Grant wants YOU to know ch23

65 mph, ALL the people, at 2:00 in the morning…

Shit-eating grin 

DandelionWine

Cupola 

Apropos of nothing  

Girls basketball - running into each other 

We All Live Here

Ablutions snuck Preternatural detritus

Apropos of nothing 

Dirty sally

Taffeta- audio t-feta

Katty corner 

Broken Country

Drink driving - just in audio 

Ma-can-ray 

Detritus 

Terupt -

Name pronunciation

Snuck 

Leisal &. po

3rd - but omniscient narrator I (reader) you

Ineffable 

ManiacMcgee

Grayson 

Snuck

City of Ember

3rd person - Dune and Lina

Dune-collecting/drawing worms/bugs 

Background noise/door opening (in book)

Unintelligible (per book) intercom 

Incomprehensible 

Mr Poppers Penguins 

Not graphic audio, but extras 

My Side of the Mountain

Wish authors preface had been author 

The gorge 

Trees exploding

Amy tan book- journal 

Walk two moons oops abridged!! 

Music/drums under narration (low)

2 stories 

Don’t like “Native American” 

Do you write about me? Journal 

Audio- lack TOC or even saying chapters (or headers). Music at chapters … I think 

Saving Zasha

Song sung 

Orphan Island

Roiling 

One Crazy Summer

Song sung 

Stuffed

Snuck 

I survived Titanic

Sneaked

Song sung 

Shackleton

Accents in audio 

Fantasy sleep 

Phantom Toolbooth

Author intro by author

Rowt cacophonous 

Puns/ alliteration

Watchdog, spelling bee, hum bug 

Jump TO conclusions 

Pony

Deign hectoring 

Authors note voiced by author 

Brown Girl Dreaming

Song spoken tingalay-o

Song sung - way down hollow tree 

Sweep

Song sung - sweep song, old lang sin

Onselecence Dias bespoke 

Saved by saving others 

Harry’s Mad

Ella Enchanted

Music at the start of chapters 

Swathed 

Song spoken (not real)

Part time Indian

Speed up to 2- author narrator 

Retarded

Stutter and lisp

One of me on page3 of pdf

Drawing 

Hunger/poverty 

Masterbation 

Iceberg

Snuck

CarNEG-ee

Books should be for everyone 

Repetitive - trust instincts 

Song sung- you take the high road 

I survived Childrens Blizzard

Snuck

Might as well be on the moon 

Reach for the Moon

Black/negro (dont use)

Forbearer 

Insignificant Events in the life of a Cactus

Cacophony 

Snuck 

SkyRaiders

Cacophony 

Homer Price- Mike f narrator 

Song spoken

Felt like a young/picture book  

Orphan of Ellis Island 

Song sung - home on the range 

Projekt 

Snuck rifled roiled 

Mighty Mo

MiddleGrade? Ebook only hoopla

Snuck

The German look …

Whirling dervish 

In which …

Hedgerow 

Let out the breathe I didn’t …

Song spoken

Out of my Heart

Swath 

13 1/2 Lives - Hoopla/no chapters 

Nadir deign arcane swathed caroom

Preternatural ablutions detritus sibilance 

All intents and purposes 

Vituperating

Ant-lantis?

Assignation hirsute apogee 

A Girl Limberlost

If as wealthy or poor would the reception be the same? Ch2

Sneaked 

If she’d been raised by the uncle/aunt

Prayer- hidden in own time 

Pete - take the money

Song spoken 

Could anyone play a violin without training?

Ejaculated (said) 

Freckles - no library kindle

Plethora

Amy Tans bird book 

Appropriate dress 

Being manly 

Mixing drinks - acid 

Let the Right one in

A little hard following pov shifts

3rd person/ past 

Snuck (sneaked too?)

Sexually explicit/

Witness- need to be part of the crime

Cat attack

House of my Mother

Haymond- Ruel and Tresa! 

Fight flight freeze fawn 

LDS

One and Only Bob

Danny Diveto - slow speed up

“Everything will be okay” - saying not knowing, does this teach kids not to trust? 

One and Only Ivan

Woman in the Library

Australian chocolate 

You Should Smile More

Snuck 

Elder Race 

Bespoke arcane 

The Paris Library

Swathed pogrom scrum sneaked 

Cacophonous deign rifle 

Animal groups -swallows/ravens 

Headers- pov not listed or narrated 

Tangled Up in You

Preternatural detritus cacophony

Book of Mormon 

Perseverating 

Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Narration - reminiscent of Daisy Jones (interviews) and “death” Book Thief 

Full cast (aurora voice in main N) 

Cacophony 

Song sung - song spoken 

Save the Last Dance - back story 

The Apple Orchard

1st/past Tess/Dominic 

Peripatetic preternaturally 

Sneaked detritus swath 

Milkweed

Bad ear -love confession 

The Wise Man’s Fear

Panoply palimpsest Dias 

Swath susurrus snuck 

Song spoken :( 

Lute case ( sounds like suitcase)

Secret Life of Bees 

Sneaked snuck (not in kindle?) 

kudzu 

Song sung 

Imagine what’s never been 

The Sympathizer

Prostitutes/communism 

SEX/squid- obscene? 

Death by 1000 paper cuts 

Sleeper agent - insomnia 

Purloined deign kudzu bucolic preternatural palimpsest 

Descriptive before Major 

“Pursuit” of happiness 

Interview at end - needed two voices 

The Story She Left Behind

Snuck sneaked roiled swathed 

Hedgerows detritus 

Name of the Wind

Snuck careen deign rifling swath roil

Hedgerows ashen arcane 

Song - spoken 

Cloak - with pockets :) 

“This better not stain” - doing laundry 

Pikey talk (like Pitt in Snatch) 🤣

The Bean Trees 

Very conversational - 1st person/past 

LuAnn - 3rd person

Loooong pauses in audio 

Careened whirling dervish 

Esperanza Eh-stay-bon

Song sung   Route- root 

How to treat homeless

Depression is like cancer 

No window (Cooper)

Esperanza Rising

3rd person/ past tense

Song sung 

Cacophony careened 

Lilac Girls

1939

Caroline, Kasia, Herta 

Snuck bespoke scrum swath 

Coyote Lost and Found

Covid   ”fair” … lots of smile statements 

Boys of Biloxi - DNF

Sneaked 

Feels like nonfiction (might have stuck)

Wild Dark Shore

Rowan, Dominic, Fen, Orly (Raff)

Present tense r&d 1st person - 

Detritus cacophony 

Vera Wong 2

Deign 

Remarkable Journey Coyote Sunrise

Song spoken (ch17)

Books - Ivan, espenenza, ghost 

Snuck 

The Ice Cream Maker(physical)

Nonfiction?? 

Arcane 

Poppy War 

System is designed to keep poor and illiterate in their place 

Let out a breath didn’t know …

Riffling arcane cerulean swath deign cacophony careen 

Supernatural - what you don’t understand 

War thoughts - children with swords, training vs killing 

Field of Dreams P&P

Traditional- but also Darcy pov 

Plethora deign 

Ghost

Worstshire sauce 

The Woman They Could Not Silence

Lisp? S British accent (us) 

Anathema bespoke dearth snuck

Cacophony deign 

Book publishing - crowd funding 

Lone Women 

Love of my Afterlife

1st person/present tense

Careen rifling snuck 

VOCA - like “Out of my Mind” 

Between Two Kingdoms

Present tense …

Bucolic medieval detritus swath 

Rifled plethora 

Parasitology

Deign  

Court of Honey

Snuck dais katana rifled 

Cutting for Stone

Hedgerows ululations preternatural Baobab CookCountyHospital 

snuck apogee dais cacophonous 

Parsimonious  perchance pellucid 

Psychosomatic 

Cascade of catastrophes 

1 year marriage contract 

SLC Utah (tests sent there) 

Swarthy swathed 

Death is the cure for all disease

Mischievous (3)

Tell people about diagnosis?? 

Frank and Red 

Spotify

Pokémon sneaked rifled careen 

Falling/ skydiving w/o a parachute 

Song sung feed the birds 

Boo Radley 

Uprising

Feels ya

Missed yeta pov? 

Repetitive “understanding” what is said 

Swath sneaked Carnegie/standard pogrom rifling 

Pauses/click in audio 

Beasts …

Chirp? $3 why did I buy, library

1st person// past tense 

Carnegie swath cerulean 

Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Swathed detritus

Whose pov?

Carnegie 

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Swath 

P&P&Z

Katana deign 

Song sung 

Handle With Care 

Story TO “you”

Cacophony hearth detritus swath 

Marion’s story? 

Help - call insurance did them (nope)

Sneaked 

DUI Cutting 

Divinity - hardball 

Abortion restrictions? 

Traitors son

Arcane deign 

A girl with a knife

She is careful w/letters- Matilda not 

Ch8 

Respiratory - res-pritory 

Wrapped in Rain

Swathed route(Rowt) snuck plethora 

Best you switch lenses 

Tell you if you’re going to hurt someone ch45

Music of Bees

Careened brindled swath riffled scrum

Song “make me a channel of your peace”

Long Walk

Swathed route(root) 

Dear Sugar 

Atomic Habits

Proactively lazy - make it easy 

Forgotten Garden

3rd person Past tense 

Music between chapters 

Riffled sneaked perspicacity infrangible 

Roiling dearth sibilant 

Mullioned windows 

Song sung

Razorblade

Cacophony hedgerow hersuite swathe 

Grayson panoply detritus 

3rd person Past tense 

So many similes 

Eddie

Snuck cacophony senectody dais 

Covid - 2020 like 1950s

How high

Need more division in audio 

Snuck riffling rifling 

Goodnight mr Tom 

Workd went Silent

Cacophony 

Snuck 

Chinese Groove

Gangly tangly

Career (careen) somniferous 

Resentment curdles contentment 

Lots of little rhymes (ilk/bilk) 

Makers mark (Sam’s club) 

Every Breath

Author intro - his voice? Maybe better after? 

Seldom

Novels by Smith - Botswana 

Biltmore Christmas 

Route (root)

Roiled 

Calling me Home

Complimentary bangs trim 

Crossword puzzle words 

JCPenny, Walgreens, StateFarm 

Detritus 

One sex pregnancy - loss

17 year old marriage 

Long pause before ch38

Katty corner 

Concussion

Carnegie (main) 

Sneaked hoopla 

Orphan train

Preternatural riffling 

Apropos of nothing 

Cashe (cashay) 

Call if the Penguin

• brought to you by Penguin 

Dearth plethora ablutions route(root)

Prstiferioys peniltamute 

The Orphan Keeper

Swath 

Song spoken 

The #1 ladies detective agency

Ululations

Fat lady 

The orphans tale

Route (root)

Panoply 

Young and un afraid 

Music at start/end awful

Why title? 

Gleanings

Cerulean bucolic purloined

The Toll

Gender fluidity 

Despair dialed down to melancholy 

Short people - no reason to live 

No soup for you 

Bucolic 

March

Several words I should highlight CXpc

Slavery

Stationary Shop

Cacophony 

Ablutions 

God of the Woods

Purloined 

Ornithology 

Quotidian 

Sipsworth

Third person/ present - even memories

Gossip of pidgins 

Wolf Trap

Ciron 

Wish you were here

Merlot - merlet 

Sourdough starter 

Other doctor

Arcane 

Not fear of death, fear of suffering

Euthanasia- wish for people 

Yin Yang - yung? 

Wild Robot

Listener … 

Reasons to Stay Alive

Is he an expert … just his thoughts

Could care less

Another life -midnight library 

The woman who ran away …

Career(careen)

Thunderhead

Greyson

Cacophony 

Valet (pronounced with t)

Scythe in robes on waverunner 

Out of order? 

Turn up metabolism 

One for the money

The channel changer …

Dated. Car phone, etc

Hamilton

Elizabeth Betsy Eliza Skyler

Loathing cacophony Dias hector loath brusque  Manumission bucolic 

Afterward - after sex 

… the last to know. Not consulted - told 

Don Quixote - tilting at windmills 

Funny Norman foreman

Penzance

Narrator Jen (needed boy for n parts)

Deign root 

Sunflower House

Careen pogrom loathing 

Song sung (silent night)

Brilliant night

Root(route) cacophony bespoke deign purloined 

Song sung - abide with me

Spoon Stealer

Talking dog 

Route (root) rifling brusque snuck careen 

Story within a story 

Smoke his fags 

Narration- cute voices for Vera(dog) and Harriet (slight lisp)

Boys of Riverside

Covid. Rowt  snuck scrum rout 

P words (prevaricate) prescience peripatetic pyrrhic 

Home of the huddle 

Finally trash talk 

Book of Doors

Susurration Detritus career(careen) 

Book of memory- dementia patient/ brought her back, but then had to take the book back 

The Wedding People

Snuck

Whitman- death

3rd person- present and past 

Covid 

Home for Unwanted Girls

Familiar narrator

Carnegie (usual pronunciation) 

Borrowed Life of Fredrick 

Cacophony