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WWW Wednesday, December 30, 2020

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).

Light It UpBlank SpaceMythos

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.

Olive, Mabel & MeBlank SpaceNo Time Like the Future

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).

Dead PerfectBlank SpaceThe October Man

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

The Friday 56 for 12/18/20

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 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

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?).

Cooking for CannibalsBlank SpaceIs this Anything?

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.

The SentinelBlank SpaceFirst Lord's Fury

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.

ForgedBlank SpaceLost Hills

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

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!)

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