It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (August 5, 2019)

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.

Other Than Reading...

This was another mostly nice week. I celebrated my birthday on Friday. It was a quiet celebration. My brother and I had gone out to eat earlier in the week. But we did have pineapple upside down cake on the day.

We came out from the restaurant Wednesday to find someone waiting to talk to us. His wife had bumped my car when she was trying to get into a parking spot. We were legally parked and away from the car when the accident happened. So I spent part of the week talking to my insurance company and getting an estimate to repair the damage. My car is pretty new being a 2018 model so I don't like the idea that it was damaged. Since it is mostly paint scrapes, I likely wouldn't have done anything if they hadn't stayed and given me their insurance information. I carry a pretty high deductible. I'm told that my insurance company will be going after their insurance company to cover the whole cost. I'll be curious to see if it ends up costing me anything to fix it. We are just glad they stayed. We might not have noticed the damage for days since it was the driver's side front by the headlight. It seems that I mostly approach my car from the back both in my garage and when I park it in various parking lots. It would have been quite a mystery as to when it was damaged.

I don't know how much reading I'll get done next week. I have a friend coming to stay with me most of the week. My schedule otherwise is very open except for a lunch with about 25 of my fellow 1968 high school grads on Wednesday. It is nice to get a chance to see some of my schoolmates more often than our official reunions. It is at a restaurant I haven't been to in many years so I'm eager to go for that reason too.

Even with some cloudy and partly cloudy days this week, we still managed to produce about 256 kWh of electricity with our solar array. We've already produced 98 kWh in August and it is just Saturday noon.

July Reading Report

I read 31 books in July. Twelve were mine including two rereads. Eighteen were review books. One was borrowed from the Public Library. I read a total of 11,006 pages. Eight of the twelve I read from the TBR pile had been on the stack for at least six months. In fact, the first five books of the Julia Spencer-Fleming series had been on the stack since 2009.

I added 34 new books in July including 4 audiobooks from SYNC and fourteen review books. Twenty-two of the books were Kindle copies. Twenty-nine of the books are still unread.

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.)

• Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron (Review;  Sept. 10) - Entertaining contemporary mystery that is 5th in a series. My review will be posted on Sept. 5.
• Written in Red by Anne Bishop 
• Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh (Review; Sept. 17) -This thriller is also the fifth in a series and was packed with suspense. My review will be posted on Sept. 10.

• Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
• The Dry by Jane Harper - This was a great mystery set in rural Australia. I loved the characters. My review will be posted on Sept. 7.
• Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop 

• Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop
• Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

Currently

• The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams (YA Review; Sept. 17)

Next Week

• Don't Say a Word by Amber Lynn Natusch (YA Review; Sept. 17)
• O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King
• His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal 

• Tamiko and the Two Janitors by Forthright
• The Prime Minister's Secret Agent by Susan Elia MacNeal
• Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

Reviews Posted

• Singapore Sapphire by A. M. Stuart
• In the Line of Fire by R. J. Noonan 

• The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
• I, Robot: To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Larry Millett

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

Bought:

• The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
• Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
• In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Review:

• Tell Me No Lies by Shelley Noble (Nov. 5)
• Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders by Tessa Arlen (Nov. 5)
• Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA; Nov. 5) 

• Rogue Princess by B. R. Myers (YA; Jan. 21)
• Frozen Beauty by Lexa Hillyer (YA; March 17)

What was your week like?