It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (November 1, 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...

After a sunny start to the week, the weather turned cold and rainy for the rest of the week. We got last month's power bill and used up a lot of our credit. It is hard to make solar energy if the sun doesn't shine!

I got a chance to do a lot of reading since the week was almost appointment free. I also planned my reading for the rest of the year choosing mainly from my TBR mountain. I set up blog posts through January 1.

Writing this on Sunday afternoon, I can report that my Atlanta Braves have a 3 to 1 lead in the World Series. I'll be watching with enthusiasm as the rest of the games occur and rooting for my Braves! Maybe it will end tonight with a Braves victory.

My brother was told that he had to use up some vacation time or lose it. He'll be off from October 30 through November 6 and he doesn't have any plans. He's not a vacation kind of guy. He says it will feel like it did when he had time off rehabbing from his heart attack: lots of boring days. I'm hoping that he does a lot of cooking and tries some new recipes. 

October Reading

I read 27 books in October including 13 rereads and 5 review books. Eighteen of the books I read were audiobooks. The longest book I read this month was To End in Fire by David Weber and Eric Flint at 857 pages. The shortest was Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold at 111 pages. I am more than half way through my next two books but don't think I'll finish either today.

I added 30 books to my collection this month. Eight were audiobooks including 2 I got using some Audible Credits and one that was a perk of my membership. I also added four new review copies. Unusually, I also added three print copies to my collection including one book for review that I received from the publisher. Twenty-six of the 30 are still unread.

I have read 309 books so far this year. Of those, 155 were audiobooks and 90 were review books. I have raised my Goodreads goals twice this year already. I started at 240, raised it to 300, and it is currently at 325.

My TBR pile, both physical and virtual, numbers 2336 and includes 35 pending review books. I still have 47 books that have been on TBR mountain since 2008 but four of them are on my calendar to be read before the end of the year. 

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.)

• Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook Reread) -- Here's a link to my review from 
• Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold (Kindle) -- Latest Penric and Desdemona novella.
• Trader's Leap by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook Reread) -- Here's a link to my review from 

• The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren (Kindle and Audiobook) -- Entertaining paranormal about a young woman who inherits a knitting shop in Oxford and discovers that vampires live in the basement. My review will be posted on November 20.
• Geekerella by Ashley Poston (Kindle and Audiobook) -- A riff on the Cinderella story that is a homage to fans and fandom and is also a nice romance and coming of age story. My review will be posted on December 9.
• A Swift and Savage Tide by Chloe Neill (Review; November 30) -- This is the second in the Kit Brightling series which is alternate history and magic. My review will be posted on November 25.

• Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy (Kindle and Audiobook) -- I read this introduction to the Walker Papers Urban Fantasy series years ago and enjoyed revisiting it in Audio. My review will be posted on December 9.
• An Unexpected Distraction by Catherine Bybee (Review; November 30) -- This third in the Richter series was entertaining romantic suspense. My review will be posted on November 24.

Currently

• Last Redemption by Matt Coyle (Review; November 30)

Next Week

• Cold Wind by Paige Shelton (Mine; Audiobook)
• The Lonely Dead by April Henry (Mine; Audiobook)
• Dark Night by Paige Shelton (Review; December 7)

• How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn (Review, December 7)
• Cold Brew Corpse by Tara Lush (Review; December 7)
• Renewed for Murder by Victoria Gilbert (Review; December 7)

Reviews Posted

• Elfhome by Wen Spencer (finished August 2)
• Crime & Punctuation by Kaitlyn Dunnett (finished August 28)
• Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connolly (finished August 30)

• Rival's Break by Carla Neggers (finished September 13)
• The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (finished September 16)
• Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas (finished September 19)

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

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Kindle for $1.99)
• The Wedding Wager by Eva Devon (Kindle, $4.99)

• Silent Evidence by Rachel Grant (Kindle and Audiobook for less than $3.00)
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman (BookBub, $1.99)
• Thunderbird Falls by C. E. Murphy (Kindle and Audiobook)

• Geekerella by Ashley Poston (Perk of Audible Membership)
• Three in Death by J. D. Robb (Kindle for $1.99)

• Cold Wind by Paige Shelton (Paperback)
• Cold Wind by Paige Shelton (Audible Credit)

• The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren (Audible Credit)
• The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren (Kindle for $.99)

What was your week like?