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WWW Wednesday, December 8, 2020

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 Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child and am wrapping up my time in the Codex Alera audiobooks with First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher, Kate Reading (Narrator)—interestingly enough (at least to me), it was 10 years ago this week that I finished reading it for the first time. Odd coincidence if nothing else.

The SentinelBlank SpaceFirst Lord's Fury

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished B. B. Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers and Free Fire by C.J. Box, David Chandler (Narrator) on audio.

Amari and the Night BrothersBlank SpaceFree Fire

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Cooking for Cannibals by Rich Leder and Is this Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld on audiobook.

Cooking for CannibalsBlank SpaceIs this Anything?

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

The Friday 56 for 12/4/20

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:
Next to Last Stand

The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman

“Kate. Tom. Good to see you. You made it this far.”

“Uncle Herbert!”

“Uncle Herbert!” Tom said. “We went through the woods and didn’t crash and then we saw a station and it was full of animals and they talked and then the train talked!”

Tom said this as one long continuous word. Uncle Herbert didn’t look particularly surprised at any of it.

September-November 2020 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

Okay, so trying to do a little catch up. Three months: 62 books, 17,772+ pages/equivalent (one book was audio-only, so I don’t have a page number). A lot of audiobooks in there. Honestly, that number suprises me–I had a better-than-normal September that helped a lot. There were some blah books in there, yet on the whole, the numbers were good enough that I averaged 3.6. But anyway, I’m pretty much back to form on the reading front, now I’ve got to work on writing. Doing this helped (psychologically, anyway).

So, here’s what happened here in September-November.
Books Read

The Secret of Rosalita Flats The World’s Strongest Librarian My Calamity Jane
3 Stars 3.5 Stars 3.5 Stars
Fool's Paradise Storm Cursed Deathstroke: The Professional
4 Stars 4 Stars 3 Stars
Lone Jack Trail Rattlesnake Rodeo Child of Fire
4 Stars 4 Stars 4 Stars
A Killing Frost The Inheritance Games Teen Titans Beast Boy
4 1/2 Stars 4 Stars 3.5 Stars
Kitty's Mix-Tape May Day The Beast and the Bethany
4 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
Starlight City of Crime The Warden and the Wolf King
3 Stars 3.5 Stars 4 Stars
Silent Bite The Art of Competitive Pokemon Murder by Other Means
4 Stars 2 Stars 3.5 Stars
The Checklist Manifesto Annihilation Aria Peace Talks
3.5 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars
Next to Last Stand Exodus Old and New The Bullet Journal Method
4 Stars 4 Stars 3 Stars
Dawn Patrol A Very Punchable Face The Gifts of Imperfection
5 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars
Legends Rise Is Jesus Truly God? Dare to Lead
3.5 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars
Breaking Bread with the Dead Superman: Dawnbreaker Everything is F*cked
4 1/2 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
The Nicotine Chronicles Kill the Farm Boy A Red-Rose Chain
2 Stars 4 Stars 4 1/2 Stars
Mostly Human 2 Who Is God? Paranormal Bromance
Still Deciding 4 1/2 Stars 3 Stars
The Law of Innocence My Life as a Dog Princep's Fury
4 1/2 Stars 3 Stars 4 1/2 Stars
Radical Candor The City That Barks and Roars Christ and Calamity
3.5 Stars 3 Stars 3 Stars
Undeading Bells The Man in Milan Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
3.5 Stars 4 Stars 3.5 Stars
Jagged Little Pill Criminal Collective Once Broken Faith
2 1/2 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars
What the World Needs Now - Trees! Kopp Sisters on the March The Power of Bad
3 Stars 3 Stars 3.5 Stars
Last Stand in Lychford Battle Ground Divine Blessing and the Fullness of Life in the Presence of God
4 Stars 5 Stars 3 Stars
Madness of the Q Wake of the Bloody Angel
Still Deciding 4 Stars

Still Reading

Tom Jones Original Cover Institutes of Christian Religion vol 2

Ratings

5 Stars 5 2 1/2 Stars 1
4 1/2 Stars 5 2 Stars 4
4 Stars 16 1 1/2 Stars 0
3.5 Stars 11 1 Star 0
3 Stars 17
Average = 3.6

TBR Pile
Mt TBR November 20

Breakdowns
“Traditionally” Published: 40
Self-/Independent Published: 23

Genre These Months Year to Date
Children’s 2 (3%) 5 (2%)
Fantasy 5 (8%) 31 (13%)
General Fiction/ Literature 2 (3%) 16 (7%)
Horror 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Humor 0 (0%) 1 (0%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 14 (23%) 82 (34%)
Non-Fiction 13 (21%) 25 (10%)
Science Fiction 6 (10%) 20 (8%)
Steampunk 0 (0%) 2 (1%)
Theology/ Christian Living 5 (8%) 19 (8%)
Urban Fantasy 14 (23%) 38 (16%)
Western 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Review-ish Things Posted

Other Things I Wroteotherwriting
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (September 5th, 12th, 18th, 26th; October 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st; and November 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th), I also wrote:

How were your months

WWW Wednesday, November 25, 2020

It’s the day before Thanksgiving here in the States—instead of preparing to be gluttonous, why don’t we do a WWW Wednesday instead?

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 Madness of the Q by Gary Basnight and am listening to The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney & Roy F. Baumeister, narrated by Paul Bellantoni on audiobook (which is incredibly interesting, except when it dabbles into American Church History and shows no understanding of Whitefield or Edwards).

Madness of the QBlank SpaceThe Power of Bad

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Paul Cornell’s Last Stand in Lychford, the conclusion to his Witches of Lychford series and Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart, Christina Moore (Narrator) on audio.

Last Stand in LychfordBlank SpaceKopp Sisters on the March

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should finally be Battle Ground by Jim Butcher and Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator) on audiobook.

Battle GroundBlank SpaceWake of the Bloody Angel

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

WWW Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Trying to get back in the saddle a bit, might as well try a WWW Wednesday, right? Even if I’d have let myself take the time, this would’ve been a really dull series lately. I’ve read–no kidding here–4 books since the end of September. Four. Thankfully, the audiobooks have proceeded on about the same pace as usual, but that should give you an idea how weird things have been at home. But let’s focus on this Wednesday, okay?

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 thriller, The Man in Milan by Vito Racanelli and am listening to Undeading Bells by Drew Hayes, Kirby Heyborne (Narrator) on audiobook—it’s the latest in the series, and I’m not sure how I’m going to cope without having one of these to fall back on.

The Man in MilanBlank SpaceUndeading Bells

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished J. T. Bird’S The City that Barks and Roars (the dark Zootopia-like cop thriller) and the Andy Carptenter spin-off, The K Team by David Rosenfelt, Fred Berman (Narrator) on audio.

The City that Barks and RoarsBlank SpaceThe K Team

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book is probably going to be the follow-up to 2018’s Flight of the Fox, Madness of the Q by Gary Basnight, because I’m obliged to do it. But what I really want to read is Battle Ground by Jim Butcher—it came out the day I got word about my move, and I haven’t had time for it yet (which is driving me cray-hay-hay-hay-hazy)*. I have no idea what audiobook is coming next, I’ve got a couple of days to decide (or a library hold to become available) before I need one.

Madness of the QBattle Ground

* That sounded just like Dr. Perry Cox in my head.

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

The Friday 56 for 9/25/20

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 of:
Next to Last Stand

Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson

I hope you Westerners don’t mind, but this Custer stuff bores teh shit out of me.” Vic, uninterested in the conversation, reached out and turned over a Durant Courant, flipping a few pages as she sipped her drink. “you want to know what Custer was thinking there at the end?

The Bear volunteered. “Where di all these Indians come from?”

“Exactly.”

WWW Wednesday, September 23, 2020

It’s Time for WWW Wednesday?!? How is it Wednesday again?

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 Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson and am listening to Peace Talks by Jim Butcher, James Marsters (Narrator) on audiobook.

Next to Last StandBlank SpacePeace Talks

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Michael R. Underwood’s Annihilation Aria and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, John Bedford Lloyd (Narrator) on audio.

Annihilation AriaBlank SpaceThe Checklist Manifesto

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Return of the Paladin by Layton Green (I have to get one thing in for Self-Published Fantasy Month) and The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow, Ray Porter (Narrator) on audiobook.

Return of the PaladinBlank SpaceDawn Patrol

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

The Friday 56 for 9/18/20

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 56% of:
Annihilation Aria

Annihilation Aria by Michael R. Underwood

Wheel was tired of waiting. Kenoa had flown up to low orbit to join her, so she’d spent most of the day talking to a destroyer-sized turtle while a barely-sentient tentacle-beast tried to stick its limbs up her nose.

WWW Wednesday, September 16, 2020

My ISP has been down all week, making it hard for me to Work from Home. So I got a lot of reading in on Monday, not quite as much on Tuesday (kept getting distracted watching my router to see if the red blinking light would turn green). Who knows what today will bring? Time for super-busy 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 Annihilation Aria by Michael R. Underwood, Batman: City of Crime by David Lapham, Ramón F. Bachs, Nathan Massengill and am listening to The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson on audiobook.

Annihilation AriaBlank SpaceCity of CrimeBlank SpaceThe Warden and the Wolf King

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty’s Mix-Tape, Josie Jaffrey’s May Day, Jack Meggitt Phillips’s The Beast and the Bethany (illustrated by Isabelle Follath), Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov, and Child of Fire by Harry Connolly, Daniel Thomas May (Narrator) on audio.

Kitty's Mix-TapeBlank SpaceMay DayBlank SpaceThe Beast and The BethanyBlank SpaceStarlightBlank SpaceChild of Fire

What do you think you’ll read next?

My next book should be Silent Bite by David Rosenfelt and Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator) on audiobook.

Silent BiteBlank SpaceMurder by Other Means

So, that’s my WWW, what are yours?

The Friday 56 for 9/11/20

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:
Fool's Paradise

Robert B. Parker’s Fool’s Paradise by Mike Lupica

They caught one small break. There turned out to be security footage in Marshport of Paul coming out of the First Episcopal Church on Saturday night. Jesse had called the chief there, Captain John Kyle, who told Jesse they had a camera set up at one of their new substations across the street. The picture of Paul’s face was clear enough that Jesse allowed Nellie Shofner to put it up on the Crier website on Wednesday night. Trying to make something happen. Get them in the game.

Now it was Thursday afternoon, and they still had no hits from any of the agencies Molly and Suit had contacted. No missing-persons report filed on a white male in the whole state since Sunday.

“We’re reaching the point where we may need some help from the universe,” Molly said.

“Is there a number we can call for that?” Jesse said.

“On it,” Molly said.

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