Month: March 2023

LITERARY LOCALS: Upcoming Event—Treasure Valley Indie Book Fair

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I’ve shared posts about this a little on various social media platforms, but now I see a final line-up/details, so I figured I might as well throw up a quick post about this event coming up on March 4th for anyone in the area who might be interested.

The Nampa Public Library will be hosting the Treasure Valley Indie Book Fair (or, if you prefer snazzy images to a text link, try this one)—there will be panels/workshops about Writing the American sonnet, talking about Youth Books, the oft-mentioned Idaho Writers Guild, Comic Books and Zines. Almost 50 local writers/illustrators/publishers will be in attendance, and I’m going to try to overcome my introversion and talk to as many of them as I can while picking up more books than I should. Three of them have or will be participating in this series already, so I’m looking forward to some face-to-face interaction with them.

If you can, you should come out to this—it looks like a good time (and will likely take away all that progress I made on Mt. TBR last month).


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February 2023 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

In February, I finished 26 titles (6 up from last month, 4 up from last February), with 6,588 pages or the equivalent (500 up from last month), and gave them an average of 3.8 stars (0.1 up from last month). Sure, 2 were Children’s Books, and a few were 150 pg. and under–so the number of titles is deceptive. Still, it was a good month on that front.

Mt. TBR moved in the right direction in a noticeable way, so I’m happy with that. And how often do I get to say something like that?

You’ll notice that I don’t have an IndieBound sticker on the side anymore and my posts don’t have the buttons for it anymore–I’ve moved over to Bookshop.org (IndieBound moved me over there, actually). I see some interesting things I can do there in the future, stay tuned.

I didn’t get as much written as I wanted to, but when don’t I say that? I did get a good number of Q&As up, and started a new series (Grandpappy’s Corner). So what (little) I produced, I’m very happy with.

Basically, it was a good month around here. Here’s the breakdown:
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

Bad Memory Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped The Silk Empress
3 Stars 3 Stars 3.5 Stars
Underground The Adventure Begins! Magpie Murders
4 Stars 3 Stars 5 Stars
Scratching the Flint The Hero Interviews The Shadow of Christ in the Book of Lamentations
4 Stars 4 Stars 4 Stars
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun A Man Named Doll The Foundling, the Heist, and the Volcano
3 Stars 3.5 Stars 4 Stars
Vampire Weekend Anna and the Vampire Prince Saint Patrick the Forgiver
4 Stars 3 Stars 5 Stars
Patrick of Ireland Red Rising Haven
3.5 Stars 5 Stars 3 Stars
Foundations Pocket Apocalypse Noirville
3.5 Stars 4 Stars 4 Stars
Selected Sermons What is Love? The Freedom of a Christian: A New Translation
4 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars
This is the Word of the Lord Broken
3 Stars 5 Stars

Still Reading

The Existence and Attributes of God A Geerhardus Vos Anthology The Bandit Queens
Good Dog, Bad Cop

Ratings

5 Stars 4 2 1/2 Stars 0
4 1/2 Stars 0 2 Stars 0
4 Stars 10 1 1/2 Stars 0
3.5 Stars 4 1 Star 0
3 Stars 8
Average = 3.77

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Audio E-book Physical Goodreads
Want-to-Read
End of
2022
5 45 42 143
1st of the
Month
5 45 46 145
Added 2 3 7 2
Read/
Listened
2 4 10 2
Current Total 5 44 43 145

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 11
Self-/Independent Published: 15

Genre This Month Year to Date
Children’s 2 (8%) 2 (4%)
Fantasy 4 (15%) 6 (13%)
General Fiction/ Literature 1 (4%) 4 (9%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 7 (27%) 13 (28%)
Non-Fiction 1 (4%) 2 (4%)
Science Fiction 1 (4%) 1 (2%)
Theology/ Christian Living 5 (19%) 8 (17%)
Urban Fantasy 4 (15%) 4 (21%)
“Other” (Horror/ Humor/ Steampunk/ Western) 1 (4%) 7 (15%)

Review-ish Things Posted

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th), I also wrote:

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?


February Calendar

WWW Wednesday, March 1, 2023

So the three more days of the month that I asked for didn’t magically appear (shockingly). Well, I guess it’s still technically possible because I’m writing this Tuesday. So if this posts on February 29, 2023, I retract that statement. Also, if that is when this posts, no one’s going to be reading this post, because everyone’s going to be freaking out.

I really had another destination in mind for that paragraph, but got distracted and silly instead. Probably was only marginally interesting anyway. Let’s just move on with the WWW Wednesday.

This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words—and shown to me by Aurore-Anne-Chehoke at Diary-of-a-black-city-girl.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Easy enough, right?

What are you currently reading?

I’m reading and ARC of Good Dog, Bad Cop by David Rosenfelt (reliably fun as always) and am listening to the darkly comic and thoughtful The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, Soneela Nankani (Narrator) on audiobook.

Good Dog, Bad CopBlank SpaceThe Bandit Queens

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Don Winslow’s Broken, which was magnificent. Also, I can finally move Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire, Ray Porter (Narrator) on audio from the “next” to the “finished” column.

BrokenBlank SpacePocket Apocalypse

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be the ARC Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto (yeah, this week is about NetGalley catch-ups) and my next audiobook should be Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane, Jonathan Davis (Narrator). I’ve read this a handful of times and it’s brilliant, can’t wait to jump in again.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for MurderersBlank SpaceDarkness, Take My Hand

What about you?

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