Sunday Post March 14, 2021/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday March 15, 2021

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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.

I had another busy week as Heather was out all week with a ruptured eardrum. Besides the pain, she is dizzy and we didn't want her driving the hour+ to work.
Stocks rallied and my portfolio account is at the highest (up 73%!) since I began March 19, 2021. Now I'll be watching to determine if I need to close out or just sit tight with my dividend stocks.

Today I am sharing my March nail treatment - for St. Patrick's Day!

(Just ignore all those wrinkles!)

We had some nice warm days last week. And I remembered to Spring Forward since my hubby changes the clocks on Saturday morning so he can be ready when bedtime rolls around. :-)

I enjoyed all of my reading this week. I finished two audiobooks and one author pdf. I posted three reviews and my usual memes.

I only visited 15 blogs last week.
Shout Out this week to LITTLE THOUGHTS ABOUT BOOKS AND STUFF. Amelia is "a fan of reading, writing, and coffee...also interested in cooking and gaming."

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 March 6, 2021/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday March 7, 2021.

• MBS February 2021 Reading List Wrap Up.

• NG2020- #NetGalley Book Review: Time of the Rose by Bonita Clifton; Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Time Travel; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0.

• ATBR- Audible Book Review: Black Ops, Expeditionary Force, Book 4, by Craig Alanson; Genre: Military Science Fiction, Space Opera; My Rating: 4.5 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.5; Narration 5.0.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway March 12, 2021. Open Worldwide. Ending 3/18/2021.

• Author 2021- Book Review: Frosted (Regency Retold #2) by M.C. Frank; Genre: Fairy Tale, Romance My Rating: 4.5 of 5.0.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement March 14, 2021.

Finished Reading:

1. pdf/Computer (Author 2021)

Frosted (Regency Retold #2)
by M.C. Frank
I am reading this as pdf on my computer so it takes a bit longer. It is a very rich romance.
Source: Received from author. Release date is February 20, 2021. My review will post before March 12.
Click on book title for full description.

2. Audio/Smartphone (ATBR)

Wolf's Bane
Written by Aimee Easterling
Narrated by Piper Goodeve
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Run time: 5 hours and 43 minutes
I enjoyed this shifter, action story.
Source: 4/01/2020 Chirp for $.99.
Click on book title for full description.

3. Audible/Smartphone (ATBR)

Commune: Book Two
Commune Series 2
By: Joshua Gayou
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 04-03-18
I enjoyed this 2nd book in this post apocalyptic series.
Source: 05/17/2020 Two Audible Credit choices for April.
Publisher's Summary
2019 Independent Audiobook Award Winner for Apocalyptica
Survival can be a lonely existence...or not. The reality of the situation always comes down to a simple decision: What kind of world do you want to build?
The survivors have come to settle in the mountains of Wyoming, fighting day in and day out to establish a home for themselves in a near-empty world. Things are good at first; scavenging is a workable, short-term solution that seems to be providing all they need.
But they know that it’s only a matter of time before the food runs out. They need to scramble to find a sustainable solution before the clock stops, and for a little handful of people up in the mountains, the odds don’t seem very favorable.
Further south, a new band of people migrates across the map, running on fumes and searching desperately for a place to settle. All around them, as resources run thin, the world grows colder and more violent.
It’s getting worse out there, always getting worse, and it’s starting to look like survival might just depend on how violent they’re willing to get.... ©2017 Joshua Gayou (P)2018 Joshua Gayou

Currently Reading:
1. Kindle App on/Smartphone (NG2020)

Forever Phoebe
by Chalon Linton
65% in and I am still enjoying this sweet romance, although I am waiting for the suspense part.
Source: NetGalley 2020.
Click on book title for full description.

2. Audible/Smartphone (ATBR)

Hold Your Breath: A Novella
By: Wendy Walker
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
After switching from two other books I chose a short one to listen to until I can make up my mind.
With one more TBR listened, then I can choose a long one if I want to.
Source: October 24, 2020 free with Audible Plus Catalogue.
About This Audible Original
From the best-selling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Don’t Look for Me comes a sharp, compulsive thriller about a young woman who narrowly escapes a violent crime and the psychiatrist helping to recover her memory of the suspect.
Gabby Ashford has just survived an attempt on her life. Detectives have connected her story to two other cases in the area: Professional women drugged at a bar, brought to their homes, and drowned in their bathtubs. Gabby, who miraculously woke up in her own bathtub unharmed, could be the key to finding a serial killer on the loose—but she has no memory of the attack.
Gabby admits herself to a high-end rehabilitation center to recover and to seek the help of a psychiatrist renowned for his work with memory recovery. As Dr. Forrester works with Gabby—interviewing not only her but her overbearing fiancée, her emotionally fragile brother, and the local detective working the case—questions about Gabby’s story, her past, and the ethics of memory recovery emerge.
Dr. Forrester, the central voice of Walker’s breakout debut All Is Not Forgotten, is a fascinating and deeply complicated character, barreling toward the truth of the case at hand while wrestling with the demons of his own past. Shocking and succinct, Hold Your Breath will have you on the edge of your seat from the first minute to the last.
©2020 Wendy Walker (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.

3. Kindle App on/Smartphone (eTBR)

Low Tide (The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series Book 1)
by Dawn Lee McKenna
I am reading this Mystery set in our near-by Florida as part of our local Woman's Club.
Source: Free Kindle 2017.
In Apalachicola, Florida, sinister things are afoot, as sinister things tend to be.
Lt. Maggie Redmond is called to a crime scene on St. George Island, where she is met with the body of Gregory Boudreaux. The medical examiner calls it a suicide, but no one knows that Maggie has a horrible connection to the dead man.
When Gregory’s uncle, Bennett Boudreaux, the richest and scariest man in town, takes a sudden interest in Maggie, people start to wonder, Maggie included. Maggie knows he may suspect her of killing his nephew, but she finds herself slowly drawn to the man.
As Maggie fights to help a young girl escape the clutches of a volatile drug dealer who’d love to see Maggie dead, she also struggles to hide her dark link to a dead man, and her burgeoning relationship with her boss, Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton.
Unfortunately, secrets have a way of revealing themselves at low tide.

March 14, 2021 - I love seeing new things each time I read the Bible. I am glad to still be current with morning reading.
I am reading/listening to the NLT Tyndale version of the Bible on You Version App so Hubby and I are reading the same passages each day.
I didn't pick out a new study last week. Maybe this week....

I completed three books and have three reviews to post to stay current.
NetGalley shelf is at 9. (I didn't look last week; maybe this week. :-))
Two author titles remaining in 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.
No new review books this week.
I picked out two for one credit YA deal at Audiobooks.com.

I added four free titles from Audible Plus.

I downloaded the March free selection at Christianaudio.com.
I only added one free Kindle title 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

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

One Kindle title $1.59.

The Bridge to Belle Island
By: Julie Klassen



Two for One Young Adult Credit Deal at Audiobooks.com.
I wasn't quite sure about these but I thought I'd give them a try. Has anyone read or listened to either series?

Alive [Dramatized Adaptation]
By Scott Sigler
Duration: 6 hours 10 minutes

Spellsinger [Dramatized Adaptation]
By Alan Dean Foster
Duration: 8 hours 1 minutes

Free

3/13/2021 These four titles I found at Audible Plus Catalog.

Open Season: The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 1
By: Archer Mayor
Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
Series: The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Summit Lake
By: Charlie Donlea
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Beasts of the Frozen Sun: The Frozen Sun Saga, Book 1
By: Jill Criswell
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins , Tim Campbell
Series: The Frozen Sun Saga, Book 1
Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Kingdom of Ice and Bone: The Frozen Sun Saga, Book 2
By: Jill Criswell
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins , Tim Campbell
Series: The Frozen Sun Saga, Book 2
Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins


March 2021 Download from ChristianAudio.com

Grace from the Cross
Author Kyle Idleman
Narrator Lyle Blaker



One free Kindle title this week.
Desecration (Brooke and Daniel Book 1)
J.F. Penn

Free titles often found at Bookbub, Bookfun, Ereader News Today, Free Par-tay, Ignite Your Book, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle ebooks.