As mentioned last week, I’ve given up on finishing Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor as my first book of the year. I also mentioned that I was going to test some poetry books for my first read but none of them stuck. Now I’m returning to a series I’ve been reading over the last couple of decades, the Inspector Montalbano series by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri. I’m up to No. 24: The Other End of the Line, which I plan on finishing today for my first book read in 2025, and I only have a few left until I’m finished with the series of 28 books.

After this one are:

• The Safety Net
• The Sicilian Method
• The Cook of the Halcyon
• Riccardino

The last one was published in 2020 after Camilleri’s death in 2019 at the age of 93. There are two other books of short stories with Montalbano that I also want to read, hopefully before the end of the year.

Also this week

I celebrated:

• Five days off in a row, which is ending today.
• 17 years of blogging on WordPress.com, actually as of today.

So what are you reading, watching, listening, and/or doing this week?

This is part of The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb Nance of the blog Readerbuzz.