Sunday Post August 14, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday August 15, 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 already miss time with the Illinois family.
Tomorrow I have to face LOADS of work.  And I have been advised that my office at work has been dripping water either from a plugged AC or a visible hole in the roof. I will be working out of the spare conference room.

I have to get a special family picture from my son to share. But here is a cute picture of my grandchildren. The youngest (twin) is wearing my sun hat but the eldest sister slipped a toy pig on top. :-)

One thing I forgot to note last week is that we watched episodes of The Chosen most nights. My son was excited to share it with me. I will have to get it playing on my system at home although it isn't nearly as nice to watch alone.

I continue with my previous prayer lists.

I had 14 hours of driving to get home. Only a few tense minutes of rain each day. The weather here is nice - actually a little cooler than Illinois.

I got to enjoy more audios and a couple more children's books. I finished four audios and shared three children's books.  I posted three reviews and my usual memes.

I visited 14 blogs last week.
No Shout Out today.

Audible offerings for free children's titles ended June 30, 2021.
Audiobooks.com is still sharing some free listens for children.

These were the posts over the past two weeks:

• Sunday Post August 7, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday August 8, 2022.

• ATBR: Audio Book Review: Tattered Loyalties by Carrie Ann Ryan; Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Shifter, Wolves; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.0.

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Nomad, The Nomad Triology 1, by Matthew Mather; Genre: Action, Post-Apocalyptic; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.0.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway August 12, 2022. Open Worldwide. Ending 8/18/2022.

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves; Genre: Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Women Sleuths; My Rating: 3.75 of 5.0 Overall; Story 3.75; Narration 3.75.

• MBS July 2022 Reading List Wrap Up.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement August 14, 2022 - When God Speaks.
  

Finished Reading:
1. Audio Chirp App Smartphone (ATBR)

Elemental Thief
Written by Rachel Morgan
Narrated by Arielle Delisle
Run Time: 7hrs 46
This fantasy was just okay for me.
Source: 10/10/19 Chirp $.99 purchase.
Click on book title for full description.

READ WITH THE CHILDREN. My grandson said that they had read the Bear Hunt at school so we got it at the library; the other two books he had and asked me to read with him - he reads them quite well too!

We Love You, Mr. Panda
By Steve Antony

Thank You, Mr. Panda / Gracias, Sr. Panda
By Steve Antony

We're Going on a Bear Hunt
By Michael Rosen

2. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

The Accidental Alchemist
By: Gigi Pandian
Narrated by: Julia Motyka
Series: Accidental Alchemist Mysteries, Book 1
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
I enjoyed this fantasy and will get more in the series.
Source: February 2021 Audible Plus Catalog.
Click on book title for full description.

3. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Wolves
by D. J. Molles
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
I like this author. This story is a bit brutal and sad - but engaging.
Source 9/18/18 Audible Credit.
Publisher's Summary
From the best-selling author of the Remaining series...
They took everything - killed his wife, enslaved his daughter, destroyed his life. Now he's a man with nothing left to lose...and that's what makes him so dangerous.
Ten years after the collapse, Huxley has built a good life again. He has a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers come. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken, and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck.
Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He knows only that they head east, and so will he, setting out on foot across the desert of the Wastelands. Eighteen months into his journey, he has no hope of ever seeing his daughter alive. Dying of thirst in the open desert, he doesn't even expect to see another day.
Then a man appears out of the desert and offers Huxley water from his canteen, an unheard of kindness in these savage times. Jay is an odd man, full of violence and guided by his hatred of the slavers, but he helps Huxley survive. And he gives Huxley a new purpose: Nothing can bring back the dead, but the two men can chase down the slavers and make them bleed.
Together Huxley and Jay carve a path of destruction across the remains of a once-great land. The slavers are brutal, but they have no idea what's coming for them. Huxley has found something to live for again: blood and vengeance.
In his most powerful work yet, New York Times best-selling author D. J. Molles delivers a carefully woven novel of violence and redemption, bringing to life a devastating portrait of a man pushed to the edge of his own humanity.
©2015 D. J. Molles (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

4. Audio Chirp App Smartphone (ATBR)

A Bargain For A Bride
Written by Amelia Rose
Narrated by Charles D. Baker
Run Time 4h 10min
I enjoyed this quick, sweet western romance.
Source: 11/22/2020 Chirp purchase for $.99.
Publisher Description
When Lady Moira Brennan leaves her home at Brennan Castle for the wilds of her own homestead claim in the Montana territory, she had no idea that a husband awaited her. Sold into marriage by her uncle, she arrives to find a bleak landscape of scarce farmers, all desperately trying to scratch out a living on their claims.
Pryor MacAteer came to Montana himself only three years ago, and his farm has prospered. All that he needs to make it complete is a wife and family, one whose passage he paid, and whose name is on the marriage contract.
Will Moira realize her dream of owning her own land and uncover the truth behind a marriage contract with her name on it?

Currently Reading:
1. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Marked in Flesh
A Novel of the Others, Book 4
By: Anne Bishop
Narrated by: Alexandra Harris
Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
I enjoy this series.
Source: 8/14/2021 July Audible Credit.
Publisher's Summary
Fourth in the "flawless" (The Reading Café) New York Times best-selling series from the author of Vision in Silver.
For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they're willing to tolerate - both within themselves and within their community....
Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn see the new closer companionship as beneficial - both personally and practically.
But not everyone is convinced. A group of radical humans is seeking to usurp land through a series of violent attacks on the Others. What they don't realize is that there are older and more dangerous forces than shifters and vampires protecting the land that belongs to the Others - and those forces are willing to do whatever is necessary to protect what is theirs....
©2016 Anne Bishop (P)2016 Penguin Audio

2. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

The Coming Apostasy: Exposing the Sabotage of Christianity from Within
By: Mark Hitchcock , Jeff Kinley
Narrated by: Paul Christy
Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
I am interested in this topic.
Source: August 2021 Audible Plus Catalog.
Publisher's Summary
"For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Jesus Christ is coming back. It is certainly a Christian's greatest hope during these difficult times. The Bible warns us that the last days will be tumultuous - wars and rumors of wars will spread (Matthew 24:6). In our age, the world seems to be spinning out of control, creating fear, confusion, and uncertainty. In addition to violence, pestilence, and epidemics, the Bible predicts a great "falling away" from God in the end times. Bible teachers call that "the great apostasy". Are we seeing evidence today in the church of this massive rejection of sound and wholesome teaching?
Best-selling authors Mark Hitchcock and Jeff Kinley team up to examine the evidence from the teachers of our time. Are today's teachers allowing people to follow their own desires by telling them what they want to hear, as the Bible clearly predicts? Are major portions of the church ready to abandon sound and wholesome teaching?
Together, Mark and Jeff explore alarming trends among today's church leaders, and they are simply stunned by what they discover. The great apostasy is coming, but is it closer than we imagine? Let Mark and Jeff be your steady guides to the difficult days ahead.
©2017 Mark Hitchcock and Jeff Kinley (P)2017 Two Words Publishing LLC

I will probably pick another audio but I haven't decided what title yet.

August 14, 2022 - I am on track and continue to enjoy the informative videos in The Bible Reading Plan is: BibleProject | One Story that Leads to Jesus. I am enjoying keeping up with my reading each day.
No new study this week.

I still have 7 books to review plus 7 children's books. I will have to push to catch up.

NETGALLEY STATUS-- NO CHANGE
My NG shelf is back to the three old ebook titles. I will probably end up letting A Place Called Armageddon go as DNF.
I don't have any author reviews in my queue right now.
(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 or NetGalley titles this week.
I selected my two for one credit titles at Audiobooks.com.
Seven free Kindle titles this week.
Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?

Review Titles

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

8/10/22 Two for One Credit at Audiobooks.com.

The Snow
Author Flint Maxwell
Narrator: Matt Godfrey
Duration: 4 h 13 min

Red Right Hand
Author Chris Holm
Narrator: John Glouchevitch
Duration: 9 h 0 min

Free

8/9/2022

No Mercy (A Valerie Law FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1)
Blake Pierce
(Thanks to The Book Connection for the 'heads up'.)

8/10/22 Author book notice:

The Saint Of Mercy: Book 1 (The Saint Of Mercy Series)
John Belle

Seven titles added to Kindle library. Free titles often found at Bookbub, Bookfun, Book Adrenaline, Ereader News Today, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle ebooks.