It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (May 31, 2021)

 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 a very mixed week. We had near freezing temperatures overnight a couple of days and made the most solar power on any single day so far this year on another day. Needless to say, I didn't get outside for walking at all this week. The temperature didn't get to 50 any day this week. I did finally leave the house to go grocery shopping one day which gave me some steps. It is weird to go places and see so many people without masks!

I spent most of the week finishing my reread/first listen of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R. King. I'm caught up now until the new one on June 22 which I have already read in ARC and have the review scheduled. 

I'm not sure which audiobook I'll choose next. I got a bunch of new ones this week when Audible had a $5 sale but only Hidden Figures is unread. All the rest were already in my collection as print or Kindle books. 

I'm starting to read my July releases from my Review stack but have enough time to fit in rereads or even books from my TBR mountain. I'm hoping to be able to go for walks and listen to audiobooks this week too.

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.)

• Death in Bloom by Jess Dylan (Review; May 25) -- Sierra is back home working in a flower shop when her boss disappears and an attendee at a workshop dies of poison. Nice story with engaging characters. My review was posted on May 26.
• Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook) -- 12th Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes takes place in Morocco where Mary suffers from amnesia and both reunite with Mahmoud and Ali who are on mission from Mycroft.
• Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook) -- 13th Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes takes place in Japan and England where they solve a problem for the Emperor of Japan and find a blackmailer. 

• The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook) -- 14th Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes is concerned with Mrs. Hudson's past. 
• Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook) -- 15th Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes finds them in Venice. Mary is trying to find the aunt of one of her college friends and Sherlock is looking for Fascists on behalf of Mycroft.
• Murder at Sunrise Lake by Christine Feehan (Review; June 29) -- Feehan's romantic suspense has a paranormal twist when Stella has nightmares about a serial killer. She and her friends need to find and stop him before too many people die. My review will be posted on June 23.

• Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook) - 16th in Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series takes Mary and Sherlock to the Riviera. Mrs. Hudson also stars. 
• Get a Clue by Jill Shalvis (Mine) - Romantic suspense heavy on the romance and light on the suspense stars Breanne Mooreland who, after being stood up at the altar, decides to go on her honeymoon alone and ends up stuck in a house with a quirky staff and a man in her shower in the middle of the snowstorm of the century. Then a body is found in the wine cellar... My review will be posted on June 26.

Currently

• Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley (July 6)

Next Week

• Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook)
• Concrete Evidence by Rachel Grant (Mine; Kindle and Audiobook)
• Fallen by Linda Castillo (July 6)

• A Thin Disguise by Catherine Bybee (July 6)
• Back from the Brink by Emery Hayes (July 13)
• Silence in the Library by Katharine Schellman (July 13)

Reviews Posted

• Orchid by Jayne Castle
• Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood

• A Rogue's Company by Allison Montclair
• Death in Bloom by Jess Dylan

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

Review:

• The Family Plot by Megan Collins (August 17)
• Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer (August 31)

Audiobooks:

• The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton (Kindle and Audiobook)
• Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton (Kindle and Audiobook)
• The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King (Kindle and Audiobook)

• Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King (Kindle and Audiobook)
• Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King (Audiobook since I already owned the Kindle)
• The Vanishing by Jayne Ann Krentz (Audiobook since I already owned the Kindle)

• Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Kindle and Audiobook)
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (Audiobook since I already owned the Kindle)
• Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh (Kindle and Audiobook)

What was your week like?