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WWW Wednesday, January 27, 2021

On January 27, 2021

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

Is it already time for the last WWW Wednesday of January? I’m not kidding, I’m having a hard time believing that. Also, I noticed as I was putting this post together, I’d been using 2020 on all my WWW Wednesdays this month. It’s like when we all used checks to pay for everything, I guess.

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 an atypical Urban Fantasy, White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton, and am listening to the more typical UF, Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowal (Narrator) on audiobook.

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Seanan McGuire’s otherworldly Across the Green Grass Fields and the goofy Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein (Narrator) on audio.

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby (this is the third time I’ve checked it out from the Library and I will read it this time) and Game of Cages by Harry Connolly, Daniel Thomas May (Narrator) on audiobook (I’m looking forward to getting back to this world).

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Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)

WWW Wednesday, January 20, 2021

On January 20, 2021

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday, already?

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 complex fantasy novel, The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick, and am listening to The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nathan Fillion (Narrator) on audiobook.

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Ace Atkin’s Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me (there’s an excess of of possessives there) and finally listened to Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz, Scott Brick (Narrator) on audio.

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton and Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein (Narrator) on audiobook.

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What’re your Three W’s?

The Friday 56 for 1/15/21: Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

On January 15, 2021

In Currently Reading, News/Misc., Quotations, The Friday 56

This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice

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

from page 56 of:
Across the Green Grass Fields

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

“You’ve just arrived, haven’t you?” asked the centaur “Bright and beautiful and brand-new, and I found you! Me, Pansy, found a human before someone else had a claim to chase. That’s even better than bringing back a lost unicorn! A real human-you are a human, aren’t you, not satyr or silene playing games with poor Pansy?”

“I’m human,” whispered Regan. Her voice sounded dull, almost deadened. Still, now that she’d found it, it was willing to let her keep going, which she considered very sporting of it. “You’re not real. None of this is real. Unicorns don’t exist.”

“But here I am, and here’s a unicorn, and there you are.” The centaur beamed. “Come on, human, let’s go see the others. They’re going to be even happier about this than I am.”

Regan shook her head. “No. This isn’t real. Centaurs are characters from Greek mythology. They’re not named ‘Pansy,’ and they don’t take lost human girls to see their friends. I’m dreaming.”

“You must be a lot of fun at parties, if you always argue with your dreams,” said Pansy, cocking her massive head.

WWW Wednesday, January 13, 2021

On January 13, 2021

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

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 We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen and am listening to Norse Mythology written and read by Neil Gaiman on audiobook.

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Chris McDonald’s The Curious Dispatch of Daniel Costello (you hopefully read a little about that earlier today) and In This Bright Future by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson (Narrator) on audio.

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire and Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz, Scott Brick (Narrator) on audiobook. Which is exactly where it was last week, true. It turns out that when you check out an audiobook on CD from the library on Saturday, it does you no good unless you take the audio files and put them on your phone before getting to work on Monday—thankfully, I’d downloaded the Gaiman book.

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What are your Three Ws?

WWW Wednesday, January 6, 2021

On January 6, 2021

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

Here we are with the first WWW Wednesday of 2021.

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 Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline and, thanks to Monday’s post, am listening to In This Bright Future by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook.

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Noelle Holten’s Dead Perfect (and can’t figure out how to talk about it without ruining something) and Highfire by Eoin Colfer, Johnny Heller (Narrator) on audio. I really wasn’t wanting to dip my toe in that again, but none of my holds were ready from the library and I had to grab something (still fun, I should add).

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be The Curious Dispatch of Daniel Costello by Chris McDonald and Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz, Scott Brick (Narrator) on audiobook.

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Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments, I’m curious!

The Friday 56 for 1/1/21: Dead Perfect by Noelle Holten

On January 1, 2021

In Currently Reading, DC Maggie Jamieson, Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thriller, News/Misc., Noelle Holten, Quotations, The Friday 56

This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice

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

from 56% of:
Dead Perfect

Dead Perfect by Noelle Holten

…I apologize if this is slightly repetitive. Remember when we were talking about strange people you may have come across or who’ve made you uncomfortable? Can you just remind me of them again and maybe what made you feel weird around them?’

‘Erm … All right. Is this one of those times I have to just give you what you ask and trust that you have your reasons?’

‘I’m afraid it is.’

December 2020 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

On January 1, 2021

In Books, Calendar Items, Currently Reading, News/Misc.

December is over, 2020 is over–approximately 8 years after it started, somehow. I didn’t read quite as much as I wanted to (nor write nearly as much as I wanted to), but I’m getting back to form. I finished the equivalent of 9,447 pages (or the equivalent) over 25 books. And I think this may have been my best month of the year, a 3.88 Average. A couple of the posts I did write this month are my favorites for 2020, which makes up for the lack of productivity.

I’ll be back today (I think) with a look back on 2020 as a whole but let’s focus on what happened here in December.


















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Tom Jones Original Cover

Dead Perfect

		Average =	3.88
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“Traditionally” Published: 20
Self-/Independent Published: 5

Genre	This Month	Year to Date
Children’s	0 (0%)	5 (2%)
Fantasy	4 (16%)	35 (13%)
General Fiction/ Literature	0 (0%)	16 (7%)
Horror	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Humor	1 (4%)	2 (1%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller	8 (32%)	90 (34%)
Non-Fiction	3 (12%)	28 (10%)
Science Fiction	0 (0%)	20 (8%)
Steampunk	0 (0%)	2 (1%)
Theology/ Christian Living	4 (16%)	23 (8%)
Urban Fantasy	4 (16%)	42 (16%)
Western	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

Last Stand in Lychford by Paul Cornell: A Tense, Taut Conclusion to this Series (that I really don’t want to see conclude)
Mostly Human 2 by D. I. Jolly: The Further Adventures of the Rock Star Werewolf
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK XIII., ix. – xii.
Madness of the Q by Gray Basnight Left Me Ambivalent (I didn’t dislike it, but…)
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston: Look Out World, There’s a New Magician on the Loose!
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding: BOOK XIV., i. – iv.
The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman: Every once in a while the world is unfair in a good way.
One for the Money by D. B. Borton: This Would-Be Gumshoe Gets By on Her Charm, Wit, Gumption, Friends and a Healthy Dose of Expletives
The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child: A New Era for the Series Kicks Off with this Presciently Timely Thriller
Catch-Up Quick Takes: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares; Undeading Bells; Paranormal Bromance; My Calamity Jane
Cooking for Cannibals by Rich Leder: An Ex-Con turned Cook, Experimental Drugs, Reverse Aging and a Gerontologist make for a Very Strange Crime Novel
Catch-Up Quick Takes: The Power of Bad, Everything is F*cked, The Checklist Manifesto, And Then You’re Dead
Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg: Eve Ronin Digs Up Bones, Secrets and Ugly Truths in this Great Follow-Up
Olive, Mabel & Me by Andrew Cotter: Two Very Good Dogs and the Human Who Introduced them to the World
Catch-Up Quick Takes: Greenlights, The World’s Strongest Librarian, No Time Like the Future, A Very Punchable Face
Light It Up by Nick Petrie: Peter Ash Throws a Monkey Wrench into a Denver Conspiracy

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

A Few More Quick Questions with Gray Basnight/a>

Down the TBR Hole (17 of 24+)/a>

A Few Quick Questions with D. B. Borton/a>

Festivus 2020: For the Rest of Us/a>

2020 While I Was Reading Challenge/a>

WWW Wednesday for December 8, December 16, and December 30.

The Friday 56 for 12/4/20 and 12/18/20.

How was your month?

WWW Wednesday, December 30, 2020

On December 30, 2020

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

It’s time for the last WWW Wednesday of 2020, and like most people, I’m beyond ready to get done with this year.

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 adrenaline-fueled Light It Up by Nick Petrie and am listening to Mythos written and narrated by Stephen Fry on audiobook (it’s charming, delightful, and isn’t doing a great job of holding my interest–I can’t explain it, probably my mood).

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Andrew Cotter’s awwww-inducing Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs and the inspiring and entertaining No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality written and narrated by Michael J. Fox on audio.

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Dead Perfect by Noelle Holten (I’ve read the Prologue and it is chilling, I’m a little apprehensive about what follows) and The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch, Sam Peter Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook (it’s going to be weird not hearing Kobna Holdbrook-Smith read Aaronovitch. Fitting, but weird).

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Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)

The Friday 56 for 12/18/20

On December 18, 2020

In (Auto)Biography, Currently Reading, Dogs, News/Misc., Non-Fiction, Quotations, The Friday 56

This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice

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

from page 56 of:
Olive, Mabel & Me

Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter

She just wouldn’t leave Olive alone. And Olive, having enjoyed four years of peace and solitude, was clearly rather put out by the visitor—asking, with those Labrador eyes that tell all, “Is this thing going to be staying long?”

I’m pretty sure that from the start Mabel saw Olive as some sort of replacement mother. They are, in fact, related in that curious mixed-up dog dynamic, where romantic liaisons are free and easy and they don’t feel tied down by human constraints or propriety. Olive’s father Henry was also the father of another litter, which contained Mabel’s mother Izzy. Working it out, that makes Olive a half-aunt to Mabel, if there can be such a thing. One of these days we’ll get everyone together on a Jerry Springer-style program and Henry will be confronted by his numerous partners and offspring. Child support will finally catch up with him and it will all get messy.

One thing that was more simple and obvious was Mabel’s love for Olive, and within just a few weeks, some—if not all—of that love was reciprocated. Neither would now want to be without the other, but Olive could probably spend more time without Mabel than vice versa.

WWW Wednesday, December 16, 2020

On December 16, 2020

In Books, Currently Reading, News/Misc., WWW Wednesday

Well, I haven’t been able to finish any of the other posts I’ve been working on for this week, might as well do a WWW Wednesday, eh?

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 Cooking for Cannibals by Rich Leder and am listening to Is this Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld on audiobook (technically, by the time this posts, I probably won’t be anymore, but, why get that pedantic?).

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What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Lee and Andrew Child’s The Sentinel and First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher, Kate Reading (Narrator) on audio.

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What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Forged by Benedict Jacka (the penultimate Alex Verus novel…sniff) and Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg, Nicol Zanzarella (Narrator) on audiobook.

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Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)

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