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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 had a good week of reading/listening, finishing five titles: 3 audiobooks, 1 ebook and 1 children's ebook. I posted three reviews on the blog and posted my usual memes. I drafted a review for The Mueller Report but haven't decided if I will post it; it's hard to be neutral (even in the report).Work went along well. Friday we were at industry seminar so Thursday and Friday were 5 hour travel days.
My eyes are better although I'm still using the medicine.
I got extra reading during the driving.
I'm glad this yucca plant survived the hurricane wipe out. There was another but the lawn people ran over it.
This past week we had heat advisories.
I visited 19 blogs last week.
Shout Out this week to Bookish Treats. Marti joined at Mailbox Monday. She states at her Goodreads site: "I'm not picky when it comes to books. I can read almost any type of book as long as it's a good one."
Thank you to all the nice people who visit me.
These were last week's posts:
- ATBR- Audible Book Review: The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters; Genre: Cozy Mystery, Historical, Victorian; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.5.
- NG2019- #NetGalley Book Review: Space Dragons by Robin Bennett; Genre: Children's Fantasy, Middle Grade; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0.
- Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway August 9, 2019. Open Worldwide. Ending 8/15/2019.
- NG2019- #NetGalley Book Review: Spring Skies Over Bluebell Castle:(Bluebell Castle, Book 1) by Sarah Bennett; Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Sweet Romance; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0.
- Sharing Beyond Books #375 Comment Giveaway August 10, 2019. Open Worldwide. Ending 8/24/2019.
Finished Reading:
1. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)
No Other Will Do (Ladies of Harper's Station Series, Book #1)
by Karen Witemeyer
Narrator Johanna Parker
Runtime 11 Hrs. - Unabridged
Release Date October 13, 2016
I really liked this historical romance!
Source: Sale at ChristianAudio.com July 2017.
Click on book title for full description.
2. eBook/Kindle (NG2019)
The Girl in Red
by Christina Henry
This is realistic post apocalyptic.
Source: 2019 NetGalley.
Click on book title for full description.
The Girl in Red
by Christina Henry
This is realistic post apocalyptic.
Source: 2019 NetGalley.
Click on book title for full description.
3. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)
The Ember War
Publisher's Pack, Books 1-2
By: Richard Fox
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Series: The Ember War, Book 1-2
Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
I enjoyed this first contact/space military adventure.
Source: November 2016 Audible Sale.
Click on book title for full description.
4. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)
Sleeping Tiger
by Rosamunde Pilcher,
Narrated by: Carole Shelley
I believe this was a re-read but I couldn't find it on my listings.
It is a quick, interesting story.
Source: 2002 Audible Purchase.
For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce wasn't sure what tomorrow would bring. She had impulsively left behind her lawyer fiancé in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She was searching for the father she'd never know, but what she found was an unexpected truth about herself and the man she planned to marry. For exotic San Antonio offered Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offered her the mysterious George Dyer, who held the key not only to her past--but to her heart.
Sleeping Tiger
by Rosamunde Pilcher,
Narrated by: Carole Shelley
I believe this was a re-read but I couldn't find it on my listings.
It is a quick, interesting story.
Source: 2002 Audible Purchase.
For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce wasn't sure what tomorrow would bring. She had impulsively left behind her lawyer fiancé in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She was searching for the father she'd never know, but what she found was an unexpected truth about herself and the man she planned to marry. For exotic San Antonio offered Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offered her the mysterious George Dyer, who held the key not only to her past--but to her heart.
5. eBook/Kindle (NG2019)
You Don't Belong Here
by Sean O'Toole
This is a NetGalley title starting with "Y" for Alphabet goal. Also, I like the idea of the story.
Source: 2019 NetGalley.
Click on book title for full description.
Currently Reading:
1. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)
Sins of the Past: A Romantic Suspense Novella Collection
Author Dee Henderson, Dani Pettrey & Lynette Eason
Narrator Various Narrators
Runtime 10.17 Hrs. - Unabridged
I like two of these authors and will probably like the third.
Source: July 2017 Christianaudio Sale.
Description
In this collection of gripping novellas from the top authors of Christian romantic suspense, sins of the past lead to danger in the present. In Dee Henderson's "Missing," a Wyoming sheriff is called to Chicago when his elderly mother gus missing. Paired with a savvy Chicago cop, the two realize her disappearance is no accident, and a race against the clock begins. Dani Pettrey returns to Alaska with "Shadowed," introducing readers to the parents of her beloved McKenna clan. Adventure, romance, and danger collide when a young fisherman nets the body of an open-water swimming competitor who may actually be a possible Russian defector. Lynette Eason's "Blackout" delivers the story of a woman once implicated in a robbery gone wrong. The loot has never been found--but her memory of that night has always been unreliable. Can she remember enough to find her way to safety when the true culprit comes after her?
Sins of the Past: A Romantic Suspense Novella Collection
Author Dee Henderson, Dani Pettrey & Lynette Eason
Narrator Various Narrators
Runtime 10.17 Hrs. - Unabridged
I like two of these authors and will probably like the third.
Source: July 2017 Christianaudio Sale.
Description
In this collection of gripping novellas from the top authors of Christian romantic suspense, sins of the past lead to danger in the present. In Dee Henderson's "Missing," a Wyoming sheriff is called to Chicago when his elderly mother gus missing. Paired with a savvy Chicago cop, the two realize her disappearance is no accident, and a race against the clock begins. Dani Pettrey returns to Alaska with "Shadowed," introducing readers to the parents of her beloved McKenna clan. Adventure, romance, and danger collide when a young fisherman nets the body of an open-water swimming competitor who may actually be a possible Russian defector. Lynette Eason's "Blackout" delivers the story of a woman once implicated in a robbery gone wrong. The loot has never been found--but her memory of that night has always been unreliable. Can she remember enough to find her way to safety when the true culprit comes after her?
2. eBook/Kindle (Publisher eBTBR)
Preserving Liberty
by Candice Sue Patterson
I failed to get this title in my review list so it is t is about time I got to this title that I was graciously provided.
Source: Pelican Book Group review choice 2018.
Historic preservation specialist Liberty Carmichael loves her position at the Library of Congress, caring for America's oldest documents. So when she intercepts an inside threat by a radical group planning to steal part of Thomas Jefferson's original collection, she takes it to the highest authority--her father, the president. When he fails to take the threat seriously, she steals the books to keep them safe.
Undercover FBI agent Cole Harding is close to disbanding the group responsible for killing his father. Believing documents once owned by Thomas Jefferson hold clues to answering a two hundred year old question, the group's next target is the Library of Congress. However, he wasn't expecting the First Daughter to get caught in the middle.
Will Cole convince the president to trust his abilities? Can he keep Liberty safe without blowing his cover? Can either protect their hearts?
3. eBook/Kindle (NG2019)
![The Ethereal Squadron: A Wartime Fantasy (The Sorcerers of Verdun) by [Stovall, Shami]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51I2vVfgdSL.jpg)
The Ethereal Squadron
by Shami Stovall
I'm looking forward to this military fantasy.
Source: 2019 NetGalley.
SOLDIERS, SORCERERS, AND MONSTERS...THIS IS WORLD WAR ONE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER IMAGINED IT.
It’s 1916, and the world is on fire.
The Great War has already consumed much of the globe, but a second, secret war between sorcerers threatens to crack it in two. The ruling families of Germany and Austria-Hungary, those with the chill of magic in their blood, will stop at nothing in their quest for power, and they’ve drawn the entire world into a bloody war because of it.
But Florence Cavell—codename Geist—means to stop them. She had to defy her family, cut her hair, and disguise herself as a man to join the legendary Ethereal Squadron: a joint US-UK division of the allied powers’ mightiest sorcerers. Armed with her powerful specter sorcery, which allows her to “ghost” through bullets and barbed wire alike, Geist fights a tireless battle to end the war once and for all.
But then the Germans unleash the Grave-Maker Gas, a concoction so deadly it destroys everything it touches and transforms even the strongest sorcerers into terrible monsters. Even her ghostly magic can’t resist the gas’s corrosive power, and it costs Geist everything she loves—her team, her friends, even the use of an arm.
This is the new weapon that could end the war—and give the Germans the world.
Now Geist must risk it all to lead a new team deep into hostile territory to discover the source of this terrifying new technology before the enemy sets it loose upon the world. Will she be able to stop the Grave-Maker Gas before it’s too late...or will the secrets of her past finally catch up with her?
The Ethereal Squadron
by Shami Stovall
I'm looking forward to this military fantasy.
Source: 2019 NetGalley.
SOLDIERS, SORCERERS, AND MONSTERS...THIS IS WORLD WAR ONE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER IMAGINED IT.
It’s 1916, and the world is on fire.
The Great War has already consumed much of the globe, but a second, secret war between sorcerers threatens to crack it in two. The ruling families of Germany and Austria-Hungary, those with the chill of magic in their blood, will stop at nothing in their quest for power, and they’ve drawn the entire world into a bloody war because of it.
But Florence Cavell—codename Geist—means to stop them. She had to defy her family, cut her hair, and disguise herself as a man to join the legendary Ethereal Squadron: a joint US-UK division of the allied powers’ mightiest sorcerers. Armed with her powerful specter sorcery, which allows her to “ghost” through bullets and barbed wire alike, Geist fights a tireless battle to end the war once and for all.
But then the Germans unleash the Grave-Maker Gas, a concoction so deadly it destroys everything it touches and transforms even the strongest sorcerers into terrible monsters. Even her ghostly magic can’t resist the gas’s corrosive power, and it costs Geist everything she loves—her team, her friends, even the use of an arm.
This is the new weapon that could end the war—and give the Germans the world.
Now Geist must risk it all to lead a new team deep into hostile territory to discover the source of this terrifying new technology before the enemy sets it loose upon the world. Will she be able to stop the Grave-Maker Gas before it’s too late...or will the secrets of her past finally catch up with her?
4. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)
Deception
By: Denise Mina
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
I pulled this mystery from my older TBR shelf.
Source: December 2004 Audible Purchase.
Publisher's Summary
From Scotland's most exciting up-and-coming mystery novelist comes a story of Lachlan Harriot, a man who refuses to believe his wife, Susie, is a killer, even though she had been working with Andrew Gow, a paroled serial killer, as his court-appointed psychologist, when she was found covered in blood near the spot where his and his wife's bodies were discovered. Desperate to clear his wife's name, Lachlan searches her home office for proof of her innocence. What he finds in this formerly off-limits place is an unimaginable world that makes him question his wife and their life together. But something continues to trouble him, and he, believing that this is where the truth lies, follows his hunch beyond all reason and hope.
©2004 Denise Mina (P)2004 Books on Tape
August 11, 2019 - I am still enjoying the devotions and readings with the One Year Bible plan through You Version App. No plan this past week. I will start a new study tonight. [You can check out audio of the One Year Bible Plan on the companion commentary online.]
I completed five books and posted three reviews. I am up to date with the five reviews to post this week.
I have been adding newer reviews to NetGalley, Goodreads, Amazon and Audible. (Eventually I will add older reviews.)
My NetGalley shelf is still 13 unread. I have one more title released in June and then I'll start in July. [Plus I have 4 old titles (2012-13.)]
I have three author ebook titles left in queue. I plan to get caught up on these too.
Still many titles through InstaFreebie and many new author requests I haven't replied to.
Welcome to Mailbox Monday.
I received one review title this week through NetGalley.
I picked up two audiobooks with my two July Audible credits.
I selected no free kindle titles this week. (Note these are in my Amazon library, NOT on my Kindle until I download and transfer them.) Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?
Review Titles
I received one title from NetGalley:
A Vintage Summer
by Cathy Bramley
"A sparkling summer story that's FULL of surprises!"
I thought this would be a nice "Summer" title and a "V" too.
Won
NONE
Purchased
8/11/19 I picked these up with July Audible Credits. 
Pass of FireDestroyermen Series, Book 14
By: Taylor Anderson
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 08-13-19
This is a fav series so I have been waiting for this.
OutlandBy: Dennis E. Taylor
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 05-16-19
I like the author and narrator so I'm giving this one a chance.
Free
-0- this week to my Kindle library. Titles found linked through Bookbub, Bookfun, Ereader News Today, Free Par-tay, Ignite Your Book, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle ebooks.
I think I read Sleeping Tiger too many years ago. I am listening to her Shell Seekers as a reread. Good that you had some good reading and could make use of the travel time.
ReplyDeleteYou had a great reading week. I hope this week is just as good.
ReplyDeleteSorry to see you've been having issues with your eyes - I know what a problem that is to a reader. A Vintage Summer sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteI’m glad your eyes are improving.
ReplyDeleteI can’t read in the car unfortunately, it triggers car sickness for me,
Have a great reading week
Yay for a good reading week! I hope your eyes continue to improve. I have a ton of audiobook holds come through this week so I need to get to those ASAP. I hope you have another successful reading week.
ReplyDeleteTina @ As Told By Tina
Hi Martha,
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy a good Rosamund Pilcher or Denise Mina story, but I haven't read either of your featured titles, so thanks for sharing those.
The other book I had my eye on, was the Cathy Bramley, and although I know her name, she is a new to me author. Maybe not the style of premise I could read on too regular a basis, but definitely one I shall be bearing in mind!
You have a great mix of genres in your post this week, so have fun reading some of them :)
Yvonne xx
I'm glad to hear your eyes are improving. Progress is good!
ReplyDeleteThe Ethereal Squadron sounds intriguing, I'll have to check it out. Have a great week and happy reading!