Category: Currently Reading Page 44 of 72

WWW Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Here we go, the first WWW of November.

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 The Appeal by Janice Hallett, it is unlike any crime novel that I’ve ever read. I’m listening to Shadow Writes by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator) on audiobook for my monthly check-in with Jane Yellowrock.

The AppealBlank SpaceShadow Rites

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Chuck Wendig’s creepy and goofy Dust & Grim and The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer, Katherine Kellgren (Narrator) on audio–which was fun but left me wanting a bit more.

Dust & GrimBlank SpaceThe Case of the Missing Marquess

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be another dose of septuagenarian fun with The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman and I have no idea what my next audiobook will be, I’m not feeling incredibly inspired by anything I”m seeing.

The Man Who Died TwiceBlank Space???

Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments!

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

October in a nutshell: 31 books, 8,079 pages (or the equivalent), 3.5 average—even with more 3 Stars than I’ve had in a dog’s age. All the 3s make me feel better about things, I’ve wondered if I was being too free with 4’s lately. All said, I’m pretty satisfied with this month—I’m terrified by the number of things I haven’t written about, though. I should read some bigger books to help me catch up.

So, here’s what happened here in October 2021.
Books Read

Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) See Her Die Beast Boy Loves Raven
3 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
What God Has to Say about Our Bodies Dead Mercy Pug Actually
4 Stars 4 Stars 3.5 Stars
Pure How to Resist Amazon and Why The Ninja Betrayed
4 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars
But For The Grace A Good Day for Chardonnay The Church: An Introduction
4 Stars 4 1/2 Stars 2 Stars
Tear It Down Grenade Bouquets Based on a True Story
4 1/2 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
Abandon All Hope Junkyard Bargain Everything Happens
3 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
Dark Heir The Case of the One-Eyed Witness Breaking Silence
4 1/2 Stars 3.5 Stars 3 Stars
Bodacious Creed and the Jade Lake The Trinity and the Bible Dark Arts and a Daiquiri
3.5 Stars 5 Stars 3 Stars
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex Squirrel Do Bad Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
4 Stars 3 Stars 3.5 Stars
Gated Prey Dust & Grim Fallen
4 1/2 Stars 3 Stars rating305 Stars
The Glorious Feast of the Gospel
3 Stars

Still Reading

Things Unseen The Appeal

Ratings

5 Stars 2 2 1/2 Stars 0
4 1/2 Stars 4 2 Stars 1
4 Stars 6 1 1/2 Stars 0
3.5 Stars 4 1 Star 0
3 Stars 14
Average = 3.5

TBR Pile
Mt TBR October 21

Breakdowns
“Traditionally” Published: 12
Self-/Independent Published: 19

Genre This Month Year to Date
Children’s 0 (0%) 2 (1%)
Fantasy 2 (6%) 18 (7%)
General Fiction/ Literature 4 (13%) 17 (7%)
Horror 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Humor 2 (6%) 7 (3%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 11 (35%) 98 (39%)
Non-Fiction 2 (6%) 17 (7%)
Science Fiction 2 (6%) 17 (7%)
Steampunk 1 (3%) 1 (0%)
Theology/ Christian Living 4 (13%) 30 (12%)
Urban Fantasy 3 (10%) 44 (17%)
Western 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Review-ish Things Posted

Other Things I Wroteotherwriting (and a few things others wrote)

Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th), I also wrote:

What about you, how was your month?

The Friday 56 for 10/29/21: See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it

from Page 56 of:
See Her Die

See Her Die by Melinda Leigh

(a rare, lighter moment in the middle of a murder investigation)

“I’ll be right in. Give me two minutes to check in with Marge.” Rounding her desk, she planted her butt in her chair.

Todd all but bounced out of the room.

Marge walked in with a vat-size mug of coffee in her hand.

Bree waved a hand toward the doorway. “Is he always this obnoxiously bright-eyed this early in the morning?”

“Yes, but you’re also unusually grumpy.” Marge set the coffee on the desk. “You look like you need this.”

“Bless you, Marge.” Bree inhaled the steam, then took a long swallow. “I need a bigger mug.”

“That would be the whole pot.”

WWW Wednesday, October 27, 2021

The wheels have really come off of my plans for the week–boh in terms of writing and reading. Real Life can be such a drag, you know? But we’re at the mid-point, and hopefully, I can recover a bit. And if not? At least I’m spending some time with these good books that I’m about to talk about in this 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 the third DetectiveEve Ronin thriller, Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg, and am listening to book about a woman on the other side of the law, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano, Angela Dawe (Narrator) on audiobook.

Gated PreyBlank SpaceFinlay Donovan Is Killing It

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Stephan Pastis’s Squirrel Do Bad, a MG Graphic Novel, and Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator), another adventure for Tori and her mystik pals on audio.

Squirrel Do BadBlank SpaceDark Arts and a Daiquiri

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Dust & Grim by Chuck Wendig—which might be a bit too much MG in one week for me, but library due dates are calling the shots, you know? My next audiobook should be Fallen by Benedict Jacka, Gildart Jackson (Narrator), as I get close to wrapping up this re-read through the series.

Dust & GrimBlank SpaceFallen

How are you spending the last week of October?

The Friday 56 for 10/22/21: The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse by K.R.R. Lockhaven

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it

from Page 56 of:
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex

The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse by K.R.R. Lockhaven

Marian moved the group along. “She’s a talker,” she whispered to them as they snuck away.

At the next cubicle over, they found a man in his late thirties peeking over the wall.

“This is Dan,” Marian said.

“You guys haven’t seen a green-headed duck around here, have you?” Dan’s eyes darted around the room.

“No.”

“Dan is afraid that a duck is somewhere out there watching him.” Marian made the statement as if it was an everyday, normal thing.

WWW Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Prepping for these WWW Wednesday posts can sometimes cause me a little headache. For example, when I finished my most recent read, I didn’t know what to read next. I have a shelf-and-a-half of TBR books staring me in the face (plus a couple of handfuls on my e-reader), and I do want to read them all, just not now. I picked 3 or 4 that I would want to read after my next one, but I wanted something else for now. Does that make sense? In the end, I went with something that will get me closer to finishing the While I Was Reading Challenge for the year—and it turned out to be just the right choice. Still a mystery, but different in tone, structure, and approach than anything I’ve read in years. A good palate cleanser.

Not quite a slump, but it’s as close as I’ve been to one in ages. Shall we get on with with it?

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 The Case of the One-Eyed Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner—fairly sure this is the first time I’ve read this one (and if not, it was pre-1995, so it might as well be—and I’m listening to Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo, Kathleen McInerney (Narrator) on audiobook, time for more mayhem in Amish Country.

The Case of the One-Eyed WitnessBlank SpaceBreaking Silence

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Jo Perry’s Everything Happens novella and Dark Heir by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator) on audio.

Everything HappensBlank SpaceDark Heir

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be the Western-Zomie-Steampunk sequel Bodacious Creed and the Jade Lake by Jonathan Fesmire and my next audiobook should be a return to the Guild Codex with Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator).

Bodacious Creed and the Jade LakeBlank SpaceDark Arts and a Daiquiri

What about you? Anything good?

The Friday 56 for 10/15/21: Tear It Down by Nick Petrie

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it

from Page 56/56% of:
Tear it Down

Tear It Down by Nick Petrie

She shook her head. “You’d think after the first time I got shot at, or my hotel got shelled, or I saw the aftermath of a drone attack or market bombing, I’d never sign up again. When actually, that’s the reason I kept going back.”

Peter knew exactly what she meant.

The sun never shone so brightly as when somebody was trying to kill you.

WWW Wednesday, October 13, 2021

I had a week away from this post (which is good, because I read enough that it’d have been tricky to post this), but now I’m back how and it’s time for 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 the tribute to post-NIrvana grunge Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg and am listening to the memoir Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald (Narrator) on audiobook (yeah, I feel like jumping on a bandwagon after his death, which is probably why my library just bought it).

Grenade BouquetsBlank SpaceBased on a True Story

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Nick Petrie’s Tear it Down and had a blast with it. Listening to A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones, Lorelei King (Narrator) on audio last week was plenty of fun, too.

Tear it DownBlank SpaceA Good Day for Chardonnay

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Abandon All Hope by Scott Spires and my next audiobook should be my monthly Jane Yellowrock check-in, Dark Heir by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator).

Abandon All HopeBlank SpaceDark Heir

Are you reading/listening to anything good at the moment?

The Friday 56 for 10/1/21: Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it

from Page 56 of:
Daughter of the Morning Star

Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson

I pounded again.

After a moment, I heard footsteps, and the door was snatched open by the same skinny guy I’d seen enter. He no longer wore the jacket with his name on it, but I took a leap of faith. “Jimmy Lane?”

He stared at me, and I had time to study the face on his oversize head, acne scarred with a withered Fu Manchu and limp dark hair that slithered over his shoulders. Oddly, his body parts were all oversize—not only his head but also his hands and feet—almost as if he’d been assembled from parts that didn’t quite match. He had the look of somebody who had taken a lot of questionable chances in life and had paid for every single one of them in spades.

I hadn’t thought it was a particularly difficult question but asked again, this time mixing it up in an attempt to jog something loose. “Lane, Jimmy Lane?”

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

September has come and gone, and what’s happened here? Well, I completed 30 books—8,240 pages (or the equivalent)—with a 3.7 average (thanks to a lot of 5-Star reads). I posted something every day, too. NOt necessarily something good, but something—and that’s a start. I did not accomplish my big goal of the month, which was to finish posting about my 20 Books of Summer books, I’ve got to get going on that (if only so I can read a sequel or two). But basically, it looks like a pretty good month.

I was really looking forward to looking at how far Mt. TBR had shrunk this month—I knew I’d done good work on that front. Annnnnd…it’s exactly the same height—one smaller in Audiobooks and one larger in hardcopy. Maybe in October?

Anywho…now for what happened here in September.

Books Read

True Dead The Treadstone Exile The Genius' Guide to Bad Writing
4 1/2 Stars 2 Stars 3.5 Stars
Holier Than Thou Headphones and Heartaches Nine Nasty Words
3 Stars 5 Stars 3 Stars
Stalker Stalked Yearbook Suburban Dicks
4 Stars 3 Stars 5 Stars
Bound Best in Snow Shots Fired
5 Stars 4 Stars 4 Stars
It's a Wonderful Woof Broken Soul How to Slay a Dragon
4 Stars 4 Stars 2 1/2 Stars
When Sorrows Come In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It Meadowlark
5 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
The Path of Faith Word by Word The Chronicles of Iona: Exile
4 Stars 3.5 Stars 3 Stars
Marked Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Case of the Missing Firefly
4 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars
Deeper The Thursday Murder Club https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jennifer-lynn-barnes/the-hawthorne-legacy/9780759557642/
3.5 Stars 4 1/2 Stars 3.5 Stars
Daughter of the Morning Star Out of House and Home Fan Fiction
4 Stars 3.5 Stars 4 Stars

Still Reading

Things Unseen See Her Die Blank Space

Ratings

5 Stars 4 2 1/2 Stars 1
4 1/2 Stars 2 2 Stars 1
4 Stars 10 1 1/2 Stars 0
3.5 Stars 5 1 Star 0
3 Stars 7
Average = 3.7

TBR Pile
Mt TBR September '21

Breakdowns
“Traditionally” Published: 23
Self-/Independent Published: 7

Genre This Month Year to Date
Children’s 0 (0%) 2 (1%)
Fantasy 0 (0%) 16 (7%)
General Fiction/ Literature 3 (10%) 13 (6%)
Horror 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Humor 1 (3%) 5 (2%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 12 (40%) 87 (39%)
Non-Fiction 4 (13%) 15 (7%)
Science Fiction 0 (0%) 15 (7%)
Steampunk 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Theology/ Christian Living 3 (10%) 26 (12%)
Urban Fantasy 6 (20%) 41 (18%)
Western 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Review-ish Things Posted

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

How was your month?

Page 44 of 72

Powered by WordPress & Theme by Anders Norén