It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 3, 2022)

 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.

Want to See What I Added to My Stack? links to Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality.

Other Than Reading...

Fans of winter weather will really have enjoyed my past week. We began with 8.5 inches of snow from last Sunday into Monday and Duluth's first Snow Emergency which has to do with where you can park your car. Since our cars are in our garages, this wasn't an issue for us. It did take until Tuesday late morning for our street to be plowed even though the snow stopped falling by mid-afternoon on Monday. Then we got an additional 2 inches of snow from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning. There were also snow flurries but nothing measurable on Thursday. Then the skies cleared, and the temperatures plummeted. It started out at 22 degrees below zero on New Year's Day with a windchill of 40 degrees below zero. Sunday, as I am writing this, it is 9 AM and the temperature is 19 degrees below zero with a 34 degree below zero windchill under bright sunny skies. 

Tomorrow I am taking my car to the dealership to have a battery tender installed. I am getting tired of going to my garage only to find that my car won't start. I know I drive very little, but still don't understand why this car's battery loses charge when the car sits. This has never happened with my other cars and my driving pattern hasn't really changed that much. My brother will be going with me since I don't really trust that the car will be reliable (and I also want him to know how the battery tender works).

I got a new phone this week - my first smartphone - and have been trying to learn about its various features. My brother also got the same phone. He's even less phone-adept than I am since he leaves his turned off most of the time. He did learn how to install the Target Circle App which so many of his customers use and is eager to take advantage of deals where he works. I haven't added, or tried out, any of the apps on my phone yet. We get our phones through Tracfone and finally upgraded when they threatened that our current phones would stop working in February, and they were offering lots of great deals. We had old phones since neither of us use our phones often and couldn't see any reason to upgrade a service we didn't use. Since unused minutes carry over, it used to be that we could buy days without minutes when it came time to annually renew our service. The last couple of years we've had to buy days and minutes. He has over 9000 minutes on his phone, and I have over 7000 on mine, which lets you know how often we use our phones. 

2021 Report

I had a great reading year. I read a total of 380 books or 378 if you believe Goodreads. I didn't feel like comparing line by line from Goodreads to my Google Sheet to find out which books I didn't include on Goodreads. That will forever remain a mystery. 

I averaged 32 books a month. I read 117 Review books last year. I also read 263 of my own books including 187 audiobooks and 28 from my TBR Mountain. 129 of the books were rereads.

I added 603 books to my LibraryThing account this year. This includes 139 Review books and 258 audiobooks.  I still have 273 of the books on my TBR pile. My total TBR pile which includes books I added as long ago as 2008 numbers 2377.

For my accounting purposes, I am going to count books added in 2020 or earlier as being from the TBR Mountain. The longer I've had a book, especially a Kindle book, the easier it is for the book to fall off my radar and get lost in my collection. 

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.)

• The Bookshop Murder by Merryn Allingham (Mine; Audiobook) -- This cozy mystery set in 1956 England was a BookBub $.99 title with an inexpensive audiobook too. It was a nice story. My review will be posted on January 29.
• Fledgling by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook) -- Reread.
• Saltation by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook) -- Reread

• Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook) -- Reread
• Dragon Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook) -- Reread
• Dragon in Exile by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Audiobook) -- Reread

Currently

• The Body Counter by Anne Frasier (Kindle & Audiobook) 
• Live, Local, and Dead by Nikki Knight (Review; February 8)

Next Week

This is a repeat from last week since I got sidetracked by listening to some favorite books from the Liaden Universe.

• Behind the Lie by Emilya Naymark (Review; February 8)
• L. A. Burning by D. C. Taylor (Review; February 8)
• The Wrong Woman by Leanne Kale Sparks (Review; February 8)

• The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong (Review; February 15)
• An Impossible Imposter by Deanna Raybourn (Review; February 15)
• A Perfect Equation by Elizabeth Everett (Review; February 15)

Reviews Posted

• In Every Generation by Kendare Blake
• Pistols and Poinsettias by Bruch Hammack
• Curse of Salem by Kay Hooper

• Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
• Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case by Kristen Painter

• Cold Wind by Paige Shelton
• The Missing by Shiloh Walker

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

Review:

• A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong (May 31)

Kindle and/or Audiobook:

• Close Up by Amanda Quick (Kindle Daily Deal)
• The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick (Kindle and Audible)

What was your week like?