It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (June 21, 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 nice week for producing solar energy. Today is cloudy but a nice day for Grandma's Marathon which resumes after taking a year off because of the Covid-19 pandemic. I'm staying away from the marathon route and downtown because I'm not a fan of crowds or traffic jams.

While trying to decide which audiobook I wanted to listen to next, I discovered that the next few books in the Amelia Peabody historical mystery series were free to me with my Audible membership. That made my decision for me. I'll be listening to them but probably not back-to-back. I have quite a few other audiobooks in my collection that I also want to hear. 

I also tried, unsuccessfully, to lower my TBR pile by choosing a book which had been on it since 2015. After reading it, I decided that I wanted to read the rest of that series and bought three of the five books for my Kindle. The other one - the fourth book in the series - is already on my TBR pile. I believe that I read the first two books years ago but no longer had them in my collection. Taking one book off and adding three isn't a really good way to lower the TBR pile!

I spent some of the week watching baseball games and hoping that my Atlanta Braves would get their act together and start winning games. Right now, they have won two in a row (after losing four in a row). I'm looking forward to tonight's game but am told that rain is threatening in Atlanta.

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.)

• Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop (Audiobook reread) -- 3rd in The Others series
• The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning (Mine; on TBR mountain since September 29, 2015) -- The rare book world is full of dangers but Cliff Janeway, former cop and current rare book dealer, is up to the task of finding both the books and the murderer. My review will be posted on July 24.
• Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop (Audiobook reread) -- 4th in The Others series.

• The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mine) -- The latest Penric and Desdemona adventure is novel length and tells about a trip to Thasalon. After an assassin in thwarted in Vilnoc, Pen and Desdemona are sent to Thasalon on the order of Pen's god to bring the one who sent the assassin to divine justice. My review will be posted on July 27.
• Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop (Audiobook reread) -- 5th in The Others series
• Murder Most Fowl by Donna Andrews (Review; August 3) -- Meg Langslow is having a busy summer what with hosting the cast and crew of a play her husband is directing, vandals attacking her house, historic reenactors causing all kinds of problems on her parents' property and a documentary filmmaker determined to cause trouble -- until someone murder him. My review will be posted on July 28.

Currently

• Beyond by Mercedes Lackey (Mine)
• The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters (Mine; Audiobook)
• Death in Castle Dark by Veronica Bond (Review; August 3)

Next Week

• The Secret Duke by Jo Beverley (Mine; added to TBR mountain April 20, 2010)
• Cursed Luck by Kelley Armstrong (Mine; added to TBR mountain May 4, 2021)
• Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron (Review; August 10)

• Paper & Blood by Kevin Hearne (Review; August 10)
• Gone By Morning by Michele Weinstat Miller (Review; August 10)
• Miss Lattimore's Letter by Suzanne Allain (Review; August 10)

Reviews Posted

• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• After Glow by Jayne Castle

• A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong
• Love Scenes by Bridget Morrissey

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

Audiobooks (Included in my Audible Subscription):

• The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
• The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

• Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
• The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

Kindle:

• Silver Silence by Nalini Singh (Kindle Keeper copy)
• Evidence Series Box Set Volume 3 by Rachel Grant ($.99 Deal)
• Murder on Millionaire's Row by Erin Lindsey

• Booked to Die by John Dunning
• The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
• The Bookwoman's Last Fling by John Dunning

• Beyond by Mercedes Lackey
• The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
• A Bad Day for Sunshine (Hardcover for keeper shelves)

• Murder at Morrington Hall by Clara McKenna ($1.99 deal)
• Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna ($1.99 deal)

What was your week like?