Monday, October 6, 2025

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (October 6, 2025)

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.

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

Other Than Reading...

This was a lovely return-to-summer week. The last three days have hit high temperatures of 81, 78, and 84 degrees. The lowest high temperature of the week was 65. There have been lots of sunny days with no rain. I'm up early this morning watching the Minnesota Vikings play football in London. It's already 71 at 9AM but the high is only supposed to get to 73.

I found myself watching a lot more baseball than I thought I would. I watched most of each of the games and there were four games a day some days. Baseball really cut down on my audiobook reading since I can read Kindle books while watching but not listen to audiobooks. 

I find myself with four books on my currently reading stack. Two of them are chapter-a-day books. A Night in the Lonesome October has short chapters for every day from September 30 through October 31. The Mother Tongue has fewer but longer chapters. The others are an audiobook and a review copy. 

This coming week should be better for reading since there are fewer baseball games each day. However, The Voice is going to overlap some baseball on Monday and Tuesday. I'll be flipping back and forth between the two channels. 

Otherwise, this coming week is appointment free. My brother works until 11PM Sunday through Thursday but his starting times vary from 2:30 to 6PM. We are planning to eat a number of meals together including trying a new casserole which uses leftover rotisserie chicken which will feed us for at least two meals.

September Report

I read 37 books in September including thirteen review copies. I also listened to 19 audiobooks for a total of 261 hours. Twelve of the books I read or listened to were rereads. I have written reviews for most of them. 

I added 37 books to my LibraryThing collection this month too. I added 7 audiobooks. I got three of the audiobooks from Chirp, used an Audible Credit for one, and added-on the other three audiobooks since I also got the Kindle copy. I added 12 review books. I took advantage of 9 BookBub Deals and 3 Kindle Daily Deals too. Twenty-one of the new additions are still on the TBR stack. 

Here is my monthly State of the Stack post which helps me keep track of Review copies. 

Read Last Week
  • The Hidden City by Charles Finch (Review, November 4) -- 15th in the Charles Lenox historical mysteries series. I enjoyed this one. My review will be posted on October 28.
  • The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie (Review, October 28) -- Second Syd Walker mystery. Interesting mystery which is concerned with Native American themes. My review will be posted on October 21.
  • The Devil in Oxford by Jess Armstrong (Review, November 4) -- Third Ruby Vaughn mystery set in Oxford during the 1922 Christmas season. I like the combination of romance, history, and the paranormal in this series. My review will be posted on October 29. 
  • The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews (Kindle, mine since August 12) -- First in a new contemporary fantasy series. My review will be posted on October 25.
  • Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Audiobook, mine since 29) -- 8th in the Clare Ferguson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series. My review will be posted on October 23.
  • Black Tie and Tails by Wen Spencer (Kindle & Audiobook, Mine since September 12) -- This is the second book in a contemporary fantasy series. My review will be posted on November 20.
  • Hid from Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Audiobook, Mine since August 30) -- Ninth in the Clare Ferguson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series. My review will be posted on October 30.
DNF
  • These Violet Delights by Madeleine Roux (Review, November 4) -- I DNFd this one because, while I could define every word, the sentences didn't make sense to me. 
Currently
  • A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (Mine) -- Each short chapter is dated from October 1 to October 31. I'm reading the matching chapter of this fantasy every day. 
  • The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (Mine) -- I'm reading one chapter of this nonfiction book every day. 
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