It’s Monday (June 10, 2024)

Some things last week:

It was the first week of summer break for the kids.

We went to an Italian place known for its wood fired Italian style pizza. I saw that they had a seafood squid ink pasta, so had to get that too.

Also this prosciutto, burrata, arugula pizza.

A browse at the indie bookstore

The fancy (but oh so delicious and delicate) cakes we got. The front one is a pistachio cake with a raspberry centre (I loved it as the raspberry was a bit tart and the pistachio had this slightly savoury note to it, but the younger one had one bite and said, it’s too salty!). The one behind is a chocolatey chocolate cake.

More rainier cherries at the farmers market

The white nectarines and peaches have been sweet too!

We had to go to an outlet mall to get shoes for the older one, and there’s nothing much to eat around there but walking around, we realised that there’s a Jollibee, which we had never eaten at before. We all got chicken sandwiches, peach mango pie, and a pineapple refresher.

Currently…

Reading:

Crooked Plow – Itamar Vieria Junior

Ghost Town – Kevin Chen

Watching:

Band of Brothers with the kids (we’re almost done, and last weekend reached the part where they found a concentration camp, it was hard to watch, but we talked about it together afterwards).

The new Star Wars series, Acolyte.

Listening:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, read by Meryl Streep (!)

Eating and Drinking:

Half a bagel with a cup of tea for breakfast

Cooking:

Last night, I made tom yum soup as well as Japanese curry. So we have that for leftovers.

Last week:

I read:

The Right Notes – Dominic Lim

The Obsession – Jesse Q Sutanto

I posted:

Library Loot (June 5 to 11)

 

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog   and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.