Sunday Post October 9, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday October 10, 2022

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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.

The week was busy with late nights again but I had dinner with a client friend in from out of town on Thursday. Then I went shopping with my assistant and took her to dinner on Friday. That gave me a break from late nights at the office.

Heather is still not feeling too good. She is stressed and feels like she isn't getting enough time with her kids.

We have all been clearing file boxes and decorating our offices a bit for our Grand Re-Opening on Tuesday. Below is our Coffee Bar in the Lobby and our closing room.
(I had a special closing table that everyone except Heather liked. We haven't found it in the storage pod and I think maybe it got ruined. I have to ask the work crew if they remember.)

I continue with my previous prayer lists.
We have still had very little rain here. Evening temps will drop to the 40s this week. Day temps will remain in the low to mid 80s.

This week I finished two audios I enjoyed. I posted four reviews and my regular Memes.

I visited only 14 blogs last week.
No shout out again this week.

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 last week:

• Sunday Post October 2, 2022/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday October 3, 2022.

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Aesop's Fables by Aesop; Genre: Children’s Classics, Classics, Teaching; My Rating: 4.25 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.25.

• NG2022: #NetGalley Audio Book Review: Until Someone Listens by Estela Juarez; Genre: Children’s Audiobook, Latin American; My Rating: 4.5 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.5; Narration 4.5.

• Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway October 7, 2022 . Open Worldwide. Ending 10/13/2022.
  

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss; Genre: Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Military; My Rating: 4.5 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.5.

• ATBR: Audio Book Review: Act of Mercy by Mandy M. Roth; Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal Shifter, Romance, Science Fiction; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.25; Narration 4.0.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement October 9, 2022 - The Servant and the Bride
  

Finished Reading:
1. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery
By: Allison Brook
Narrated by: Mia Gaskin
Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
This is a nice, easy listen cozy mystery with just a hint of future romance.
Source: 1/23/2021 Audible Plus Catalog.
Click on book title for full description.

2. Audio Smartphone (ATBR)

Manners and Monsters Collection: A Regency paranormal mystery series
by Tilly Wallace
Narrated By: Marian Hussey
Duration: 23 hours 46 minutes;
Book 2 Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
I like these characters and the mystery of this book 2, Galvanism and Ghouls.
Source: 11/1/2020 Audiobooks.com Credit Purchase.

Galvanism and Ghouls
Click on book title for full description.

Currently Reading:
1. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

A Dirty Job
By: Christopher Moore
Narrated by: Fisher Stevens
Series: Grim Reaper, Book 1 (2 books)
Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
This is a bit rough with language and reasoning but it has some funny moments.  I have 3 hours left.
Source: 7/18/21 Audible $5.00 sale on Sci Fi and Fantasy titles.
Publisher's Summary
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant, you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.
But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie, exhausted from the birth, turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird.
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
©2006 Christopher Moore (P)2006 HarperCollinsPublishers

2. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

An Uninvited Ghost
By: E.J. Copperman
Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
Series: Haunted Guesthouse, Book 2 

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
I enjoyed the first book so thought I'd read the second as a lighter haunted story.
Source: October 2020 Audible Plus Catalog.
Publisher's Summary
Alison and her resident gumshoe ghost are on their next case when the deceased Scott MacFarlane floats in worried that he accidentally killed a prominent local woman. Turns out she's still alive...that is, of course, until she's murdered - in Alison's house. Now, between the demands of her guests and the arrival of a reality television crew, Alison must find the killer before she sees reality from the other side.
©2011 Jeffrey Cohen (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

I suspect I will get to a third book but I haven't chosen yet.

October 9, 2022 - I remain current and enjoying the reading. I get excited watching the devotion videos.  The Bible Reading Plan is: BibleProject | One Story that Leads to Jesus. It really soothes me to read/listen to the pieces each day.
No new study this past week.

I read two more titles and reviewed four so I made progress but still need to review: 8 books (plus 7 children's books). I keep working on these. :-)

NETGALLEY STATUS-- One new audio title I'll be listening to soon.
My NG shelf still has three old ebook titles. I will probably end up letting A Place Called Armageddon go as DNF.
I have one author reviews in my queue that I need to start reading on my computer.
(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.

SLIM MAIL BOX FOR ME THIS WEEK.
No new review titles this week.
I found one Audible Plus.
No free Kindle titles this week.
Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?

Review Titles

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

NONE

Free

10/6/2022 Audible Plus

Space: 1969
By: Bill Oakley
Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins



No 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.