This week has been the perfect reminder of why I read. It is and always will be an escape and keeping my head down gave me the opportunity to catch up with all that blog tour reading I still had to do. Win! 😄
Books I read this week :
This week I read 7 books. Technically, 7 and a half but that half sadly ended up being a DNF. It happens.
Books I bought this week :
One. I checked twice to make sure. I’m totally slacking. What the heck?!
ARC’s received via Netgalley :
Two for blog tours, one I didn’t think I’d get. The shelf is growing but my approval rating is still in the 90’s so I’m okay with that.
This week’s book post :
Have a wee story. In case you didn’t know, I live in Belgium. My dear friend Dom lives near Atlanta, where Karin Slaughter is from. And yet somehow, I was the one who introduced her to Karin’s work. Years later, Dom has the opportunity to meet Karin Slaughter at a signing, tells her the story and then sends me my most treasured possession on my bookshelf. 😍 If you’re reading this, Dom, thank you! 😘
On the blog this past week :
Monday : Shared my review for Murder in Little Shendon
Tuesday : I welcomed Larry Enmon, author of Wormwood, to the blog.
Wednesday : This Week in Books
Thursday : Joined the blog tour for The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland
Friday : Pankaj Giri, author of The Fragile Thread of Hope, visited the blog.
Saturday : Hosted a stop on the blog tour for the CWA Anthology of Short Stories
Sunday : Weekly Wrap-Up
Next week on Novel Deelights :
Next week will be utterly insane on the blog. I have no idea how that happened, other than I can’t seem to stop myself from saying “sure, I’ll help!” but there you go. It is what it is and as long as I actually remember to post all the things I should be posting, it’ll be great! I think. 😄
Question of the week : What is your most treasured possession on your bookshelf?
Wishing you all a fabulous week and lots of happy reading! xx
Novel Deelights 
I love your treasured possession, what a lovely friend, Author and story. Go you, for having a 90 + Netgalley rating. My most treasured book possession is my special edition beautiful embossed, quoted cover of an Anne of Green Gables book. Hubby bought it for me for Christmas a few years ago, and it is my favourite book, and most beautiful book.
Happy reading Eva,
Amanda.
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I’ve never read Anne of Green Gables though I do remember watching it on tv eons ago. That book sounds like a wonderful treasure! Cookies for your hubby! Mine wouldn’t even think of getting me something like that. 😄
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What a wonderful friend. All of my signed books are treasured and I would never part with them (though to be fair I find it hard to part with any book!!). I can’t believe you only bought one book, are you ill? 🙂
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I’m pretty sure I was, yes. Possibly running a temperature. It’s okay. Back to normal this week 😉
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Casey hill the watched, my fiancé got me it, it’s not on bookshelf as I’ve read it
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Cookies for the fiancé!
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That’s a lot of books in a week. I’m retired, still can’t read that fast. Good job-on Netgalley too.
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As am I. But I’m also a fabulous procrastinator as is obvious from my ironing pile which may just topple over soon and hurt someone 😄
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Amazing story, lucky you! My most treasured book… I don’t know really, I have a few top rated books that I really like to look at, a few signed ones.. and there is one that I treasure because it was the first book sent to me by a publisher. I wasn’t particularly fond of the story but I’ll never part with it because it meant I was a real blogger. It’s called What Alice Knew by TA Cotterell.
You did great this week and I’m sure you’ll make up for it and buy double next week ;-). So what was the novel you DNF?
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This is the first one I have where my name is actually in it so that makes it my most treasured one. And hey, it’s Karin Slaughter! What more can I say? 😄
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Good luck with the crazy blogging week! My most treasured book is a signed first edition of The Handmaid’s Tale that I picked up in a second hand bookshop a few years ago. It wasn’t cheap, but I love it!
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Oh wow! I can’t believe something so special would end up in a second hand shop but good for you! You must have been thrilled to bits!
Survived the crazy blogging week! Yay!
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What a lovely friend to have! Mine are probably my fab hardback Nonesuch Dickens books which Santa has been giving me one of each year for several years now. I always wanted a beautiful matching set of Dickens and now I’m about halfway there… 😀
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Oh, I love that! I picked up a few Dickens books here but they were few and far between. For someone reason, Belgian folks don’t seem to care much about him. Who knew? 😄
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Very envious about the Karin Slaughter signed copy. What a lovely gift from your friend. Can’t think of one treasured book but I do appreciate my signed ones x
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I’ve had to put it away. I couldn’t stop touching it. The ink might have vanished from the page 😂
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Fantastic book post, what a great friend! I love my box set of The Chronicles of Narnia with coloured illustrations. 😊
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She really is! Your box set sounds beautiful!
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That’s a lot of books read! I am impressed as always, how cool is it you got a signed book? X
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I think it’s because I know I have at least one weekend coming where I won’t be able to read as much so I’m trying to get a head start 😄
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Dom is a keeper!
Once again an impressive reading week for you! I don’t really have a treasured possession on my bookshelf. That sounds so sad 😦
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Aw! You can make that a goal for next year! 😘
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