Sunday Post November 15, 2020/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday November 16, 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.

We will be training a new, basic clerical staff member this week. Plus I'll be training one of my staff on bookkeeping entry for extra hours. Plus I will continue to work on litigation and probate files.
My family had a nice zoom meeting today since we haven't gathered for reunion in several years.

We should have a good crop of lemons coming.
The tree to the left is the grapefruit but the lemon look almost as big!

 Temps this week in my area of Florida are projected to range from 78 high to 40 low.

I had to push a bit to finish a second book again but I am moving on others as well. I finished one audiobook and one ebook. I posted two reviews and my usual memes.

I visited 16 blogs again last week.
Shout Out this week to Elza Reads. Elza is s little white kitten whose Mommy is a teacher/librarian in South Africa. They share “all types of meows and purrs of the bookish kind.”

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 November 8, 2020/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday November 9, 2020.

• MBS October 2020 Reading List Wrap Up.

• Thank You Veterans!

• A2020- Audible Book Review: Actualized, The Configured, Book 3 by Jenetta Penner; Genre: Dystopian, Sci Fi, Teen and Young Adult; My Rating: 3.75 of 5.0 Overall; Story 3.5; Narration 4.0.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway November 13, 2020. Open Worldwide. Ending 11/19/2020.

• ATBR- Audible Book Review: The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens; Genre: Legal Thriller, Mystery, Police Procedure; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.25.

• Sharing Beyond Books #408 Comment Giveaway November 14, 2020. Open Worldwide. Ending 11/28/2020.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement November 15, 2020.

Finished Reading:
1. Audio/Smartphone (A2020)

Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy
By: Janice Lynn, Hallmark Publishing
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rachel L. Jacobs Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 10-27-20
I enjoyed this sweet Christmas romance.
Source: 2020 NetGalley.
Publisher's Summary
When Sophie Davis sorts through a box of donated books to her church, she’s surprised to find a soldier’s journal. As the daughter of a veteran who watched her father struggle over the years, she feels a deep connection to the man who wrote the emotional entries.
Former Marine Cole Aaron battled to find peace after returning to civilian life. He’s always needed to protect others. Now, fighting fires helps him put out the demons within him. He’s embracing his life in Pine Hill, Kentucky, and strives to call a truce with his past. When Sophie shows up at the fire hall with his journal from when he first returned stateside, Cole can’t believe it was in the box he’d donated. The book is old news, and he tells her to trash it.
Sophie and Cole are drawn together as they both volunteer for their community, but it’s hard for Cole to let down his guard, and he doesn’t need anyone’s pity. After all he’s been through in the past, can he find faith in a more hopeful future...one touched by joy?
This heartwarming romance includes an original Hallmark recipe for Dilly Duchess Potatoes.
©2020 Janice Lynn and Hallmark Publishing (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

2. eBook/Kindle (NG2020)

The Cowboy Who Saved Christmas
Jodi Thomas, Sharla Lovelace, Scarlett Dunn
I particularly liked two of this trio of historical, western Christmas tales.
Source: Received from NetGalley.
Click on book title for full description.

Currently Reading:
1. Audible/Smartphone (ATBR)

Wool
Silo, #1; Wool, #1-5
By: Hugh Howey
Narrated by: Amanda Sayle
Series: The Silo Saga, Book 1
Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
I am enjoying the creative storytelling in this sci fi. (For #SciFi Month.)
Source: 2017 Audible Daily Deal $3.95.

2. Audio/Smartphone (A2020)

Cover Your Tracks
By: Daco Auffenorde
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
This looks like an interesting suspense.
(I saw this at Book Reviews by Linda Moore.)
Source: Received from NetGalley.
Publisher's Summary
Margo Fletcher, eight months pregnant, is traveling by train from Chicago to Spokane, her childhood home. While passing through an isolated portion of the Rockies in blizzard conditions, the train unexpectedly brakes. Up ahead, deadly snow from a massive avalanche plummets down the mountain. Despite the conductor’s order for the passengers to stay seated, former Army Ranger Nick Eliot insists that survival depends on moving to the back of the train. Only Margo believes him. They take refuge in the last train car, which Nick heroically uncouples in time to avoid the avalanche. The rest of the train is hurled down the mountainside and is soon lost forever in a blanket of snow. Margo and Nick, the sole survivors, are stranded in the snowstorm without food, water, or heat. Rescuers might not arrive for days.
When the weather turns violent again, the pair must flee the shelter of the passenger car and run for their lives into the wilderness. They must fend off the deadly cold as well as predatory wild animals foraging for food. Eventually, Nick leads Margo to shelter in a watchtower atop a mountain. There, we learn that both Margo and Nick have secrets that have brought them together and that threaten to destroy them. ©2020 Daco Auffenorde (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

3. Print (Author2020)

The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence
by Christopher Manske
This will take a bit longer so it will run as my third "current reading" for several weeks. I am moving slowly but finding this interesting.
Source: I was pleased when the author offered this for my review.
Click on book title for full description.

I'm keeping track of my Alphabet here as I finish the books. These are the letters that remain:
NETGALLEY:  H  M  U  X  Y and Z
AUDIO:             X  and  Z

November 15, 2020 - I continue enjoying reading first thing each morning, even this week while away.
I am still 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 completed my second Thanksgiving plan in November: five day plan: Double Blessing.
This week I will be doing a seven day plan: The Blessing Devotional Plan by Kari Jobe.

I completed two books, posted two reviews and I am up to date.
Since I listened/am listening to the two audios I picked up at NetGalley this week, my NetGalley shelf is now at four with the three remaining titles from 2012-13 which I still hope to read this year.
I have added no new author review titles this week. I still have one carry over author ebook left in my queue. (Plus a few that I received from newsletter sign-ups, not specific review requests.)
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.
I got three NetGalley review titles this week - all audios.
Someday I'll check the email requests I have been receiving. {Sigh.}
I picked up my second October Audible credit plus one daily deal.
I also purchased four audios at Chirp.
Sixteen 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

Three Audiobooks received from NetGalley (two reflected above as finished or currently reading):

Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy
By: Janice Lynn, Hallmark Publishing
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rachel L. Jacobs
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
(I saw this at Bookfan.)

Cover Your Tracks
By: Daco Auffenorde
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 10-20-20
(I saw this at Book Reviews by Linda Moore)

A Long Road on a Short Day
by Gary D. Schmidt, Elizabeth Stickney, Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)

Won

NONE

Purchased

November 13, 2020 Audible Credit (October)

Shattered Worlds
Koban, Volume 4
By: Stephen W Bennett
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 31 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 04-16-15

(This is to continue the series.)

November 9, 2020 Audible Daily Deal for $3.95:

Star Runner
By: B. V. Larson
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
(A genre and author I like.)

November 8th, 2020 Chirp Purchases:

The Dauntless
Written by Alex Kings
Narrated by Mark Boyett
$1.99

Atticus
Written by Sawyer Bennett & S. Bennett
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
$0.99
(I saw this one at Caffeinated Book Review.)

Gustav Gloom and the People Taker
Written by Adam-Troy Castro
Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky
$0.99

Free

Sixteen 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.