October 2024 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

I finished 24 titles in October (8 up from last month, 1 down from last October), with an equivalent of 6,605+ pages or the equivalent (1,657+ up from last month), and gave them an average of 3.7 stars (.43 down from last month). Man, audio-only productions really mess with my page count math.

A stupid cold, a lot of activity on the personal front, and miscellaneous other things are really draining my energy and making it hard to post lately. I’m trying to come up with a workable solution to this that doesn’t involve retirement (either from this or the day job). In the meantime, I’ll just grumble about how little I”m writing 🙂 Actually, that cold did more than set back my writing–you’ll note on the calendar at the bottom of the post that there are two blank days there. I don’t know the last time I spent two days without reading.

Anyway, here’s what happened here in October.
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to,6

Still Reading

Ratings

	4		0
	2		2
	8		0
	2		1
	6
		Average =	3.7

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 21
Self-/Independent Published: 3

Review-ish Things Posted

• In Medias Res: Black Maria by Christine Boyer
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
• Grandpappy’s Corner: How to Babysit a Grandpa by Jean Reagan, Lee Wildish (Illustrator): What Little One Doesn’t Need to Know This?
• On the Unity of Christ by Cyril of Alexandria, John Anthony McGuckin (Translator): A Powerful Dialogue on the Person of Christ
• Black Maria by Christine Boyer: A Small Town Has Some Big Secrets Exposed
• On Classical Trinitarianism: Retriving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God edited by Matthew Barrett. An Outstanding Defense/Explanation/Retrieval of the Vital Teaching
• The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter’s 30th Is as Satisfying as the 1st
• The Ballad of Bonaduke—Episode 57: Dealing with Shadows by R. T. Slaywood: I Didn’t See That Coming
• The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo: She Just Wanted Some Work…
• Hermit of Paradise by Kim Sanders, A Novel That Swings for the Fences
• A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke: A Charming New Odd Couple of Amateur Sleuths
• Pupposites Attract 1 by Hono Natsuna, Matt Trayvaud (translator): And They Called It Puppy Love…
• Blood Reunion by JCM Berne: Space Vampires, Secret Identities, and a Promise of Something Worse

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th), I also wrote:

• Opening Lines: Blind to Midnight by Reed Farrel Coleman
• MUSIC MONDAY: Extremely Old With You by Paul & Storm
• Opening Lines: My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby
• MUSIC MONDAY: At Last by Etta James
• 2024 Plans and Challenges: Third Quarter Check-In
• A Few More Quick Questions With…Steven Max Russo
• MUSIC MONDAY: “There She Goes” (Grandpappy Science Edition)
• OTD: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout First Published in 1934
• Opening Lines: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• MUSIC MONDAY: “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Joe Cocker
• Highlights from September: Lines Worth Repeating
• October Book Haul (and some other stuff)
• WWW Wednesday for October 2, October 9, October 16, October 23, and October 30, 2024.

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?