It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (July 27, 2020)

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...

I hit a milestone of sorts this week when I put gasoline in my car for the first time. I bought my new car on March 7 and then the Stay at Home orders began. Even before that, I didn't drive much but the pandemic kept and is keeping me mostly housebound. I finally got down to just above a quarter of a tank and had a coupon from Cub Foods giving me $.20 a gallon off which would expire at the end of July. I have a whopping 260 miles on my car now. At this rate, I won't need to fill my car again until November.

I listened to two very long Honor Harrington books this week. I added the companion series to my collection this week and have decided to listen to the rest according to the internal chronology of the series which means I'm currently listening to Crown of Slaves which is the first in the Crown of Slaves trilogy. While it takes place in a different place than the main series, there is some overlap in characters and some of the incidents in the main series are recounted from a different viewpoint in these. I found an internet site that listed all of this series in order of internal chronology which was helpful since War of Honor referred to a number of things that I'm reading about in this new book. I was almost tempted to stop reading War of Honor in the middle until I read Crown of Slaves but decided to finish one before starting another.

I expect my listening to drop quite a bit now that the baseball season has finally begun. I can read a print book while watching baseball but I can't listen to one and watch at the same time. And the David Weber books are all long! The shortest on my TBR stack is 16:38 and the longest is 37:19. There isn't really a rush to get to these since the first of the reviews for the ones I still want to listen to isn't scheduled until October 8. But I am enjoying the series and want to keep reading.

I was invited to do some reviewing for Minotaur books this week and received my first book from them for review in October. It is the 22nd in the Andy Carpenter series and should be something of a challenge since I recently read the first two but none of the others in the series. I have liked quite a few books from the publisher that I got for review from Edelweiss and NetGalley though I tended to avoid the ones deep in series I hadn't read.

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.)

• Ashes of Victory by David Weber (Mine; Audiobook) -- 9th book in the Honor Harrington series. 25 hours and 45 minutes of action, adventure, space battles and political intrigue. My review will be posted Dec. 2.
• War of Honor by David Weber (Mine; Audiobook) -- 10th book in the Honor Harrington series. 35 hours and 15 minutes of mostly political intrigue. My review will be posted on Dec. 9. 

• Murder in the East End by Jennifer Ashley (Review; August 11) - This is the 4th historical mystery involving cook Kat Halloway. I like the characters and the setting of this series. My review will be posted on July 30.
• Skating Around the Law by Joelle Charbonneau (Mine) - This contemporary mystery has been on TBR mountain since Oct. 31, 2013. It begins a series and was both engaging and humorous. My review will be posted on August 1.
• Cold to the Bone by Emery Hayes (Review; August 11) - Introduces a female sheriff in rural Montana who investigates the murder of a 14-year-old tourist which leads to a medical conspiracy and an encounter with the man she fled Denver to escape along with her small son. My review will be posted on August 5.

Currently

• Crown of Slaves by David Weber & Eric Flint (Audiobook) - I am just starting Chapter 30 at the 11 hours and 40 minutes mark with 7 hours and 38 minutes to go.

Next Week

• A Desperate Place by Jennifer Greer (August 11)
• Little Falls by Elizabeth Lewes (August 11)
• Death at High Tide by Hannah Dennison (August 18)

Reviews Posted

• Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
• Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs 

• A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair
• Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain

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

Review:

• Silent Bite by David Rosenfelt (Oct. 13)

Bought:

• Crown of Slaves by David Weber & Eric Flint (Kindle)
• Crown of Slaves by David Weber & Eric Flint (Audiobook)
• The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber (Kindle) 

• The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber (Audiobook)
• Storm from the Shadows by David Weber (Kindle)
• Storm from the Shadows by David Weber (Audiobook) 

• Torch of Freedom by David Weber & Eric Flint (Kindle)
• Torch of Freedom by David Weber & Eric Flint (Audiobook) 

• Shadow of Freedom by David Weber (Kindle)
• Shadow of Freedom by David Weber (Audiobook) 

• Shadow of Victory by David Weber (Kindle)
• Shadow of Victory by David Weber (Audiobook)
• Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber and Eric Flint (Audiobook)

What was your week like?