It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (November 27, 2023)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.  It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.

I will be combining my YA and adult reading and purchases on this one weekly roundup.

Want to See What I Added to My Stack? links to Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality.

Other Than Reading...

I hope everyone who celebrates had a nice Thanksgiving. Ours was nice. Our recipe for a sheet pan Thanksgiving Dinner turned out well. It didn't look exactly like the picture but pretty close.

Cleaning out some of the leftovers for dinner is my current plan since my brother is working during the dinner hour today.

It is hard to believe that it is almost the end of November. I woke up this morning to a dusting of snow and it is lightly snowing now as I'm writing this. I would have been all right if there wasn't snow until Christmas Eve, but we have had less snow than usual for my part of Minnesota. We are 11.9 inches below the average for this date. We have had a couple of inches of snow in November but none of it stayed on the ground. I'm afraid this snow is on the ground until Spring.

This week should be a quiet one. I don't have any appointments on my schedule or any reason to leave the house. I will shortly be finishing my last 2023 review book, but I can't take a break since I have one January 2 release and six January 9 releases on my review stack. I'll be working on my draft posts for my January calendar, preparing my State of the Stack post, and totally out my November reading this week too. I do know that I've already met my often-revised Goodreads goal and will likely be increasing it again this time to 400 books. 

Read Last Week

If you can't wait until the review shows up on my blog, reviews are posted to LibraryThing and Goodreads as soon as I write them (usually right after I finish reading a book.)

• Second Duke's the Charm by Kate Bateman (Review; December 26) -- Historical romance. Interesting characters. My review will be posted on December 19.
• He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (Audiobook Reread) -- Takes place in Egypt during WWI. My review will be posted December 19.
• Public Anchovy #1 by Mindy Quigley (Review; December 26) -- Catering a library fundraiser leads to solving a couple of murders. My review will be posted December 20.

• Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas (Audiobook Reread) -- The fifth Lady Sherlock concerns clearing Inspector Treadles of a murder charge. It was another excellent addition to the series. My review will be posted on December 21.
• Coconut Drop Dead by Olivia Matthews (Review; December 26) -- Lyndsay Murray, the Grenadian Nancy Drew, has another mystery to solve when the lead singer of an up-and-coming reggae band falls to her death at the annual Carribean American Heritage Festival. My review will be posted on December 21.
• Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (Review; December 26) -- This is the third novel in the Founding of Valdemar series and, among other things, explains why there are Heralds and Companions. My review will be posted on December 23. 

Currently

• Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters (Audiobook reread)
• The Secret of the Lady's Maid by Darcie Wilde (Review; December 26)

Next Week

• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Mine since 9/29/2020)
• Cold Curses by Chloe Neill (Mine since 11/14/2023)
• Broadcast Blues by R. G. Belsky (Review; January 2)

• The Sign of the Four Spirits by Vicki Delany (Review; January 9)
• Death at a Scottish Wedding by Lucy Connelly (Review; January 9)
• The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz (Review; January 9)

Reviews Posted

• Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters (Audiobook)
• Hide in Plain Sight by Marla Perry (Mine)
• Found Object by Anne Frasier (Audiobook)

• The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor (Review Copy)
• Road Queens by MaryJanice Davidson (Review Copy)
• Shards of Glass by Michelle Sagara (Review Copy)

Want to See What I Added to My Stack Last Week?

Review:

Bought:

• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Audiobook; Chirp)
• Wilde Christmas by K. M. Fawcett (BookBub; Free)
• A Curse of Queens by Amanda Bouchet (from her newsletter)

• Hideaway by Nora Roberts (BookBub)
• Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (BookBub)
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Kindle Daily Deal)

• Legends & Lattes by Travia Baldree (Kindle Daily Deal)
• The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros (Kindle Daily Deal)

What was your week like?