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?