Sunday Post February 20, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday February 21, 2022

I am linking with Sunday Post at Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

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 continue to trot on the work treadmill.

I learned about Wordle, Dordle, and Quordle at Words and Peace last week. I was trying to save my statistics but it apparently saves the current puzzle guess steps. I did five this week and haven't failed any yet. The Quordle always comes down to the last guess for the fourth word but I've managed to get them all so far.

Hubby's cough has cleared up but he is still struggling to sleep at night and rebuild strength during the day.

Several of us attended our Chamber 94th Anniversary Celebration event on Thursday night to support our friend as she became president (the lovely lady in mustard)! I wish I had gotten a pic with Heather but she had to leave early due to her long drive (1 and 1/2 hour+) home.

I would have been perfectly happy with the charcuterie board
but that was just the beginning! There was steak, shrimp, salad, onion rings and scrumptious desserts.

We still had some cold nights last week. But the low this coming week is to be only 46.   

My reading and listening was slow but good this week. I got several hours into a second book (Finding You) but it wasn't available any longer on 2/18. So I only finished one audiobook. I posted two reviews and my usual memes.

I visited 16 blogs last week.
Shout Out this week to @ HOME WITH SHERRY. Sherry's interests include " Reading, Writing, Paper crafting, Bible study, Weather, Music" and she covers these on her blog.

Audible offerings for free children's titles ended June 30.
Audiobooks.com is still sharing some free listens for children.

These were last week's posts:

• Sunday Post February 13, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday February 14, 2022.

• eBTBR: eBook Book Review: Bad Wolf (Bad Wolf Chronicles Book 1) by Tim McGregor; Genre: Crime Thriller, Paranormal, Werewolf; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.0.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway February 18, 2022. Open Worldwide. Ending 2/24/2022.

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Defiant, Lee Hardin, Book 4 by D. J. Molles; Genre: Action & Adventure, Military Sci Fi, Post-Apocalyptic; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.5.

• Sharing Beyond Books #440 Comment Giveaway February 19, 2021. Open Worldwide. Ending 3/5/2022.
  

• Sunday Words of Encouragement February 20, 2022.

Finished Reading:
1. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Just Before Sunrise
By: Carla Neggers
Narrated by: Cassandra Livingston
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
I enjoyed this and it reminded me of the author's style of romantic suspense.
Source: 6/10/2021 Free from Audible Plus Catalog.
Click on book title for full description.

Currently Reading:

1. Audio/NetGalley App Smartphone (A2022)

Mickey7
by Edward Ashton
John Pirhalla (Narrator)
Katharine Chin (Narrator)
Listening Length: 9 hours and 16 minutes
This isn't quite as engaging as I would like, but I still want to see where the second half goes.
Source: 2022 NetGalley.
Click on book title for full description.

2. eBook/Kindle App on Smartphone (Author2021)

The Fair (Time Box #2)
by John A. Heldt
I made little progress on this as the app 

is so slow on my phone. I will keep trying.
I do like the characters and suspense.
Source: June 20, 2021 received from the author.
Click on book title for full description.

3. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Dismantling America
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
I downloaded this nonfiction to listen in the car when the NetGalley app doesn’t work.
I was immediately pulled in by the clear, and disturbing, essays of this economics and social scholar.
Source: June 2021 Free from Audible Plus Catalog.
Publisher's Summary
These wide-ranging essays - on many individual political, economic, cultural, and legal issues - have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must override both the traditions of the country and the will of the people.
Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape case, the underlying concern is about what these very different kinds of things say about the general direction of American society.
This larger and longer-lasting question is whether the particular issues discussed reflect a degeneration or dismantling of the America that we once knew and expected to pass on to our children and grandchildren. There are people determined that this country’s values, history, laws, traditions, and role in the world are fundamentally wrong and must be changed. Such people will not stop dismantling America unless they get stopped—and the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return.
©2010 Thomas Sowell (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

February 20, 2022 - These videos are really good! Bible Reading Plan: BibleProject | One Story that Leads to Jesus. I know it won't match my Hubby's reading but I wanted some different insights/devotions and I am enjoying the devotion video project. I am enjoying keeping up with my reading each day.
I am learning that working well glorifies God. I am on day 20 of a 21 day study "21 Days to Finding Eternal Purpose in Your Daily Work".

I completed two books again for review this week.
My NetGalley shelf has one new audiobooks again.
There are still three old ebook titles. I will probably end up letting A Place Called Armageddon go as DNF.
I now have one author titles remaining in queue as I am reading one.
(Plus a few that I received from facebook links and 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: Serena of Savvy Verse & Wit, me and new to the team, Velvet at vvb32reads. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

No new review books.
One Audible Plus.
February VIP pick at Audiobooks.com.

No free Kindle books.

Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?

Review Titles

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

NONE

Free

2/19/2022 Audible Plus Catalog.

The Plus One Pact
By: Portia MacIntosh
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
I saw this on sale at Chirp but found it in the Plus catalog for free.


2/20/2022 Audiobooks.com VIP February Pick:

Don't Look
Author Alexandra Ivy
Narrator: Jim Frangione
Duration: 10 h 28 min
This looks/sounds like a good romantic suspense by an author I haven’t read yet.


Other Free titles often found at Bookbub, Bookfun, Ereader News Today, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle ebooks.