Sunday Post June 21, 2020/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday June 22, 2020

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading now at The Book Date (at Wordpress)?

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.

Work continues. Now I will be pushing on the legal work as we will be going north soon.
Our daughter-in-law is going to have surgery again. The doctors feel the chemo has stablized the turmor as much as it can. They plan to remove the tumor that has grown back, hoping to get clear margins. Then there will be radiation treatments. Please share prayers for her, the family, and the doctors. The surgery is this Thursday. WE plan to arrive about the time she will be coming home so we can help with the cooking (hubby) and children (me).

I keep trying to get pictures of the cardinals as they play near the feeders. I don't know how to zoom with my phone. I need to keep my camera nearby.

There are three cardinals in the top picture - two near the bush to the left
and one midway on the grass (at the level of the birdfeeder).

This picture has a finch at the front and the cardinal at the second opening level. It always pleases me when they don't chase each other off... like the mocking birds and bluejays do.

Yesterday morning I opened the balcony to oppressive heat. This morning I was pleased that there was a lovely breeze and I was able to sit out and watch for the birds while listening to my audios.

I made up for last week by finishing 4 books this week: two audiobooks and two ebooks. It was a slim posting week as I posted only one review and my usual memes.

I visited 16 blogs last week.
Shout Out this week to Forever and Everly. May says: "Welcome to my blog, where I talk about YA books, make bad jokes, & cry over Thai food."

Don't forget- Audible is offering free children's titles during these days at home.
Audiobooks.com is also offering free listens for children.

These were last week's posts:

• Sunday Post June 14, 2020/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday June 15, 2020.

• ATBR- Audio Book Review: The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes; Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Humor, Satire; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.25.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway June 19, 2020. Open Worldwide. Ending 6/18/2020.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement June 21, 2020.

Finished Reading:

1. Audible/Smartphone (ATBR)

A Wizard of Earthsea
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated By: Rob Inglis
Duration: 7 h 18 min
I wasn't enthralled by this but I did enjoy it.
9/30 Audiobooks.com Two for One Credit YA Fantasy.
Click on book title for full description.

2. eBook/Kindle (NG2020)

The Finders
A Mystery (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery Book 1)
by Jeffrey B. Burton
I really liked this alot!
Source: NetGalley 2020.
Click on book title for full description.

3. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)

Radiance
Wraith Kings, Volume 1
By: Grace Draven
Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
This is a lovely romance. 
I was pulled in by the characters and the story.
Source: 11/25/18 $4.95 on Sale at Audible.
Publisher's Summary
The prince of no value
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.
The noblewoman of no importance
Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn't just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she's known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.
Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.
©2014 Denise Shaw (P)2015 Denise Shaw

4. eBook/Kindle (eTBR)

Justice in an Age of Metal and Men
(Metal and Men #1)
by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
I have book 2 from NetGalley and I enjoyed reading the first book.
Source: 2019 Kindle Purchase.
Does victory mean justice, or is J.D. staring down the barrel at revenge? There was a time that might have been a simple question, but not anymore.
Nothing's easy in the small town of Dead Oak, Texas where the outlaws scour the skies on flying motorcycles, tech warps the minds of witnesses, and a person can't even trust the metal parts of his own body.
But a rancher's been murdered, and J.D. is determined to find the killer. Whether that's revenge or justice, well, probably best to let the bullets decide.

Currently Reading:

1. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)

Seven
Written By: Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Susan Yankowitz
Narrated By: Anna Deavere Smith, Alex Kingston, Shannon Holt, Sarah Shahi, Annet Mahendru, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, Emily Kuroda, Jossara Jinaro
Publisher: LA Theatre Works
Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes
I felt the need to be more aware of the oppression of others. This book tells the struggles of women from seven countries who sometimes didn't even know that freedom and education were available to women.
Source: 7/5/2018 One of Eight titles won from Audiobooks.com through Beth Fish Reads
Summary:
Seven women give voice to the voiceless. Seven is a documentary play created with the support of Vital Voices Global Partnership and is a collaboration between the playwrights and seven female activists from around the globe, telling inspiring stories of overcoming adversity to effect real change and improve the lives of women.
Includes panel discussions with Russian activist Marina Pisklakova-Parker, and playwrights Paula Cizmar and Susan Yankowitz. The moderators are René
Jones, Executive Director of the United Talent Agency Foundation, and Alyse Nelson, the president, CEO, and co-founder of Vital Voices Global Partnership.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance, featuring:
Shannon Holt as Marina Pisklakova-Parker
Jossara Jinaro as Laura Alonso
Alex Kingston as Inez McCormack
Emily Kuroda as Mu Sochua
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris as Hafsat Abiola
Annet Mahendru as Farida Azizi
Sarah Shahi as Mukhtar Mai
Directed by Judyann Elder and recorded live in performance in January 2017 at UCLA's James Bridges Theater.
Sound Effects Artist and Additional Voices, Jeff Gardner. Production Manager, Tori Burnett. Post-Production Coordinator, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording and Mixing Engineer, Sound Designer and Editor, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood....

2. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)

Plan Z: How to Survive the 2009 Financial Crisis (and even live a little better)
by Robert Pagliarini
I have picked out a couple of older TBRs. With people out of work and the market down I thought I'd listen to this book.
Source: Free 2009 Audible.
Plan Z is a FREE audiobook by number-one best-selling author Robert Pagliarini. It will show you exactly what you need to do to survive this recession....

3. eBook/Kindle (NG2019)

The Jumpgate
by Robert Stadnik
I thought this would be a good NetGalley for this week.
Source: NetGalley 2019.
After being trapped within the solar system for nearly a century, humanity is finally free to explore the galaxy. But questions still remain about the aliens that oppressed the human race. Where are they from? Why did they come to the Milky Way galaxy? The opportunity to uncover those answers finally presents itself. But is anyone brave enough to go through...the jumpgate.
This novel is part of the exodus universe.

4. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)

Vanguard
The Genesis Fleet, Book 1
By: Jack Campbell
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
Time for another Sci-Fi (plus a V title).
Source: 12/6/2019 Audible Free Titles for Settlement.
Publisher's Summary
Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance...and the men and women who fought to create it.
Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist.
When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers - or die trying.
As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a "Red" from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don't succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires.
©2017 John G. Hemry (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

I'm keeping track of my Alphabet here as I finish the books. The cross-outs aren't easy to see, so I made the completed letters blue.
NETGALLEY: A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W X  Y  Z
AUDIO:            A  B  C  D  E  F G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W X  Y  Z

June 21, 2020 - I am up to date with my daily reading. I am again enjoying the devotions and readings with the One Year Bible plan through You Version App. I considered changing but this is the reading group that is closest to my husband's reading so we can sometimes discuss the same passages.
I finished the five day study Chris Tomlin - Holy Roar: Live From Church Devotional. I'll pick another study this week.

I completed four books and posted one review to stay up to date.
My NetGalley shelf is now at 6, plus the four titles from 2012-13 which I still hope to read this year.
I'm resisting adding any more NetGalley titles until I get some of my review titles done.I still have one carry over author ebook and two new author ebooks. I expect to pull one of these soon. I have one audiobook from an author and now I have 1 other new audiobook left of four. I need to get caught up on these books.
Still many titles through InstaFreebie and many new author requests I haven't replied to.

Welcome to Mailbox Monday.

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. This Meme started with Marcia at A Girl and Her Books (fka The Printed Page) and after a tour of hosts has returned to its permanent home at Mailbox Monday. Thanks to the ladies sharing hosting duties: Leslie of Under My Apple Tree, Serena of Savvy Verse & Wit and (yours truly). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
No review books again this week.
I still have to check the email requests I have been receiving. {Sigh.}
I used another credit for 2 for 1 deal at Audiobooks.com. I picked up the two free originals at Audible plus an audio month 1st week free audio.
I added 8 free Kindle titles this week. I haven't taken time to view the free offerings due to work and trading studies at night.
(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

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

6/20/2020 2 for 1 Credit at Audiobooks.com
Dog on It
Written By: Spencer Quinn
Narrated By: Jim Frangione
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date: February 2009
Duration: 9 hours 42 minutes

Forever War
Written By: Joe Haldeman
Narrated By: George Wilson
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date: April 2008
Duration: 9 hours 21 minutes

Free

I borrowed the two Audiobook SYNC files from Week 8.
June 18 – June 24
THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS by Bill Konigsberg, narrated by Joel Froomkin, Anthony Rey Perez (Scholastic Audio)
THE BRONTË PLOT by Katherine Reay, narrated by Laura Kirman (Thomas Nelson)

6/20/2020 Three Free Titles from Audible.
Two Audible Originals:
Forget Nothing
By: Jason Anspach, Michelle C. Meyers
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 06-04-20


Ghostsitter - A Crazy Inheritance
By: Tommy Krappweis
Narrated by: Michael Braun, Marc Vietor, Jay Snyder, Dina Pearlman, Cynthia Darlow, Stephen Bel Davies, James Fouhey, Jeena Yi, Jessie Cannizzaro, Kevin T. Collins, Mateo D'Amato
Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 06-04-20

Audio Month 1st week free pick:
The Tea Shoppe
By: Josie Adams
Narrated by: Nicola Barber
Length: 40 mins
Release date: 06-15-20


S. D. Smith had specials on his kindle books this week: I missed book 2 but did get three others: The Last Archer: A Green Ember Story, The First Fowler: A Green Ember Story ($.99) and Ember Rising (The Green Ember Series Book 3)

I picked up a total of 8 free Kindle titles this week. Free titles often found at Bookbub, Bookfun, Ereader News Today, Free Par-tay, Ignite Your Book, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle ebooks.