Sunday Post May 7, 2023/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday May 8, 2023

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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.

My life is changing. Heather has accepted a new job in Panama City which she will start 5/15. This is the first time in 22 years she will work for someone other than me. She will be doing the tasks she knows and loves so I think this will be a good move for her so she doesn't have to drive an hour and a half each way to work and she'll be closer to her children and able to attend their events easier.

I am still looking at options for my office as I do want to find someone to take over the title office and my law practice so I can at least semi-retire. This may take some time to resolve.

The week had other issues for me as it brought the first anniversary of my husband's death. Then I got a full price offer to sell our second property, an A Frame 30 miles away hat my husband truly loved. We would have lived there except it was too far for me to go to work each day. I had listed the property a couple of months ago but the contract to close in two weeks sort of punched my heart.

Meanwhile, I got a new lawn service as my yard needed attention. They did a good job and told me they found this snake skin on top of the hedge at my front porch.

I guess I had been coming home in the dark and didn't see it till the night before they cut the hedge. It was too dark to take the pic but fortunately he left it out for me the next morning.

Princess is feeling better. I plan to get them to the vet for their annual checks this week or next.

My continuing prayers include prayers for more unity in all nations, a calmer social atmosphere, and for revival. We are also praying for family and church.


I think I went through the week in a daze. I didn't even notice the weather. I think it was pretty nice. The forecast is rain for most of this coming week but day temps will still be in high 80s, even 90 already.

I finished three audios this past week and posted two reviews and two memes.

I visited 17 blogs last week.
No Shout out this week. (I've been pretty tired this week and I'm ready to get this posted.)

Audiobooks.com is still sharing some free listens for children.

• Sunday Post April 30, 2023/It's Monday! What are You Reading? Plus Mailbox Monday May 1, 2023.

• NG2023: #NetGalley Audio Book Review: The Instructor by T.R. Hendricks; Genre: Military, Suspense, Thriller; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.0.
  

• ATBR: Audible Book Review: Oracle by Andrew Pyper; Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller; My Rating: 4.0 of 5.0 Overall; Story 4.0; Narration 4.0.

• Sunday Words of Encouragement May 7, 2023 - Battling Evil Spirits.

Finished Reading:
1. Audio Smartphone (ATBR)

Snow Melts in Spring
By Deborah Vogts
Narrated By: Emily Durante
Duration: 8 h 19 min
This is a sweet romance with a vet, football player, and an injured horse.
Source: 5/8/2021 Two for One Credit Deal at Audiobooks.com.
Click on book title for full description.

2. Print (P2023)

Get Up and Grow: 21 Habits of Successful People
By Duke Matlock
I plan to activate several recommendations from this inspiring book.
Source: March 2023 gift from Pastor.
Click on book title for full description.

3. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

The Wicked Wyckerly
By: Patricia Rice
Narrated by: Eliza Jane Cornell
Series: The Rebellious Sons, Book 1
I have enjoyed this author and saw that this free title would be unavailable on 5/7 so I downloaded to read in one day. I'm glad I did.
Source: 2/6/2021 Audible Plus title.
Publisher's Summary
NYT and USA Today best-selling author! Nominated for the prestigious romance Rita award!
John Fitzhugh Wyckerly has been the spare heir all his life, supporting himself with gambling and charm. The news that he's inherited the bankrupt title of earl of Danecroft shatters his indolent world. Even penniless, he's always paid his debts, but now the estate's creditors are closing in. He can fake his death and run for cover or accept overwhelming responsibility and find a rich wife - one who will also accept his illegitimate terror of a daughter.
On his way to find an heiress, he meets Abigail Merriweather, who is neither rich nor aristocratic, but she can tame The Terror and stomp cockroaches. Unfortunately she needs a wealthy, powerful man who will fight her father's executor and retrieve her four half siblings. When an unexpected inheritance falls into Abby's lap, she sets out for London to seek a lawyer.
Can Fitz charm his practical Abby into trusting him to save her siblings when it's doubtful that he can even save himself? And can Abby surrender reason and logic for the folly of love offered by a man who can have any woman he wants but insists he wants only her?
©2010 Patricia Rice (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Currently Reading:

1. Audible Smartphone (ATBR)

Broken
By: S.J. West
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Series: The Watcher Chronicles, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
This title showed as being unavailable by May 23 so I am listening now.
I am enjoying the beginning and concept.
Source: 9/27/2022 Audible Plus
Publisher's Summary
At the tender age of seven, Jess Riley's parents were ripped out of her life by the Tear, a ripple of white light in the sky which randomly transports people from Earth to alternate realities and distant planets once a year. On the night the Tear first appeared, the Watchers, a mysterious group of men possessing supernatural powers, made their presence known to the leaders of the world, earning their complete trust to deal with the turmoil the Tear caused.
Now 22 years old, Jess is an agent working for the Watcher Agency searching for a way to bring her parents back home. When the leader of the Watchers, Mason Collier, recruits her to join his team, Jess quickly discovers she is meant to play a major role in sealing the Tear forever. Mason and Jess instantly find themselves drawn to one another but they both resist their mutual attraction for different reasons. Broken by past events in their lives, they each struggle to overcome their fears and find the strength to take a chance on one another.
©2013 S.J. West (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

2. NetGalley App Smartphone (NG2023)

Titanium Noir
by Nick Harkaway
I started this and then paused for other books.
I like how it started- interesting main character.
I only have this available another 5 days so I hope to finish it this week.
Source 3/4/2023 NetGalley.
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he’s called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical, milquetoast techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn’t look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan—one of this dystopian, near-future society’s genetically-altered elites. There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, all thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca’s discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to near godlike status. A dead Titan is big news... a murdered Titan is unimaginable.
But Titans are Cal’s specialty. In fact, his ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just any Titan—she’s Stefan’s daughter, heir to the Tonfamecasca empire. As Cal digs deeper into the murder investigation, he begins to unweave the complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and it soon becomes clear he’s on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world.
A virtuosic mash-up of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites, Titanium Noir is a tightly woven, intricate tale of murder, betrayal, and vengeance.

 Again, I expect to get to a third book (an audio), which I will pick when I get there.

May 7, 2023 - I am doing the daily readings of BibleProject plan: The Full Story - "From the beginning to the Amen".
I don't know whether I will do a YOU Bible App or a print book.

I finished three audio titles and reviewed two. I had one left from last week so four to do.

NETGALLEY STATUS--
I still have two more audios on my NetGalley shelf.
I still have the two old NetGalley ebook titles.

I have one author review in my queue that I need to start reading on my computer. (I need to look back and see which one this is.)
(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 newest to the team, Emma at Words and Peace.
Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

Small mailbox this week.
No review titles and no wins last week.
I picked two for one credit at Audiobooks.com.
I got no free Kindle titles last week.
Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?

Review Titles

NONE

Won

NONE

Purchased

5/5/2023 Two for One Credit at Audiobooks.com. Both are sci fi selections.

Quant
Series: #1 of Colony
Written by: Richard F. Weyand
Narrated by: Derek Shoales
Duration: 7 hours 28 minutes

Warlord Rising
Series: #2 of Great Insurrection
Written by: Michael Anderle, David Beers
Narrated by: John Skelley
Duration: 7 hours 22 minutes

Free

No new titles added to Kindle library. 
Free titles might be found at Bookbub, Book Adrenaline, Ereader News Today, Inspired Reads, or Kindle ebooks.