July 2021 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

“Only” 24 books this month—I got off to a strong start, and then I started a period of readjustment thanks to returning to the office. I’m not sure I’ve got my feet under me when it comes to reading/listening to audiobooks yet. That’s 6,412 pages (or audio-equivalent), plus I’m guessing another 350 or so—there was one audio short story and one to-be-published novel that I can’t find page counts for. Which is not terribly shabby when I think of it in those terms. My average rating was 3.9, a tenth of a point higher than most months this year (4 tenths higher than my worst), so that fits.

Part of what use these posts to do is spur myself to action on various fronts—or that’s the intent, anyway. Am rethinking the Mt. TBR portion of these posts, because it’s sure not working too well.

Enough monologuing, I’m not a supervillain about to leave the hero to die in an (doomed) elaborate contraption—here’s what happened here in July.

	3		0
	3		0
	9		0
	4		0
	5
		Average =	3.9

I’m strongly considering renaming this to Tsundoku (積ん読), so I can celebrate the size of some of these bars rather than shaking my head at myself…What do you think?

“Traditionally” Published: 16
Self-/Independent Published: 8

• The Watchman by Rob Parker: Ben in the U.S.A.
• Faithful Theology: An Introduction by Graham A. Cole: Basics for Building a Theological Method
• Tender is the Bite by Spencer Quinn: Will Chet Share Bernie with a Ferret?
• Small Bytes by Robert Germaux: Back to the Beginning of JB Barnes
• Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin: Heroism Comes from the Unlikeliest Places
• In Plain Sight by Dan Willis: A P.I. with a Magical Edge Races the Clock in this UF Series Start
• Foundations of Covenant Theology by Lane G. Tipton: A Fascinating Approach to Genesis 1-3
• The Rags of Time (Audiobook) by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson (Narrator): DC Smith is a Fly in a Colleague’s Ointment
• Know Your Rites by Andy Redsmith: Murder, magic and now rap music. Oh joy.
• A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones: Sunny and Auri get into Some Cold Cases in their Hot Town
• The Attributes of God: An Introduction by Gerald Bray: Sketching out The Essence of God and How He Relates to Us
• Finding Hope in Hard Things by Pierce Taylor Hibbs: How the Hard Things Shape Us
• August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones: Even a Kindness from the Devil Must Be Repaid

Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st), I also wrote (okay, mostly compiled):

• 20 Books of Summer 2021: June Check-in
• Mid-Year Freak Out Book Tag ’21
• Overdue 2021 Audiobook Challenge Mid-Year Check-In
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published “General” Fiction
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Non-Fiction
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Steampunk
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Fantasy
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Science Fiction
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Urban Fantasy
• The Irresponsible Reader On…Self-Published Crime Fiction
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d Want With Me While Stranded On a Deserted Island
• Authors/Bloggers/Anyone Else: Want to Pitch In with a Guest Post?
• WWW Wednesday for July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28, 2021
• The Friday 56 for 7/2/21 (The Watchman by Rob Parker), 7/9/21 (In Plain Sight by Dan Willis), 7/16/21 (August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones), 7/23/21: Dead Man’s Grave by Neil Lancaster, and 7/30/21 (The Heathens by Ace Atkins).

That was my month…how was yours?