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 be busy at the office and then working on one or two files in the evenings.
Meanwhile, I need to find time to clean and do my Christmas shopping!
I got my flu and pnemonia shots on Tuesday and then sneezed all day on Thursday. Fortunately I was fine by Friday.Saturday morning I participated with other GFWC Woman's Club members in a local Wreath Across America Ceremony. It was a moving ceremony and we were honored to place wreaths on the gravesite and thank the veteran by name.
There were almost 500 veteran's graves at the cemetery.The weather was cold and windy, pending rain.These two members joined the photo with other vets who participated.My continuing prayers include prayers for more unity in all nations, a calmer social atmosphere, and for revival. We are also continuing prayers for family and church. And continuing prayers for Israel and Gaza and all the innocents who are being impacted by the war.Our weahter the week before Christmas is expected to be a cool low 60s as the high and 30 as the low one night. No rain expected until next Sunday.
I visited 10 blogs again last week but still no new Shout Outs lined up.
Audiobooks.com is still sharing some free listens for children.
Finished Reading:
As I was looking for what I wanted to listen to next, I discovered about 44 of my Audible Plus free titles would only be available through 12/31. I am picking some of those to decide if I want to continue the series.
1. Kindle App on Smartphone (eBTBR)
The Xyania Project - Part 1 of 2
by J.V. Nolan
3.75. This was interesting but it ends abruptly and I am not likely to get book 2.
I posted a short review at Goodreads.
Source: Free Kindle title acquired on June 12, 2022.
Click on book title for full description.
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2. Audible on Smartphone (ATBR).
The Xyania Project - Part 1 of 2
by J.V. Nolan
3.75. This was interesting but it ends abruptly and I am not likely to get book 2.
I posted a short review at Goodreads.
Source: Free Kindle title acquired on June 12, 2022.
Click on book title for full description.
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New Frontiers
The Expansion Wars Trilogy, Book 1
By: Joshua Dalzelle
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
4.25. This has lots of action and I will likely continue in the series.
Source: February 2021 Audible Plus Catalog expiring 12/31.
Publisher's summary
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3. Kindle App on Smartphone (eBTBR)
VEGETABLES!:
Simple and Easy Vegetable Crock Pot Recipes
By Hannie P. Scott
4.0. I liked these recipes and did a short review at Goodreads.
Source: Free Kindle March 2018.
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VEGETABLES!:
Simple and Easy Vegetable Crock Pot Recipes
By Hannie P. Scott
4.0. I liked these recipes and did a short review at Goodreads.
Source: Free Kindle March 2018.
Are you looking for easy, how-to recipes that anyone can make? This simple vegetable crock pot cookbook has 25 step-by-step recipes for anyone looking to save time, eat better, and cook delicious meals for the family. Have any of these statements ever crossed your mind? Easily cook healthy meals for you and your family! Crock pots and slow cookers require little clean-up, little prep work, and they make wonderful meals! This simple and easy recipe book will help you... Now you can prepare savory meals at home for the entire family to enjoy! recipe, recipes, slow cooker recipe, vegetarian, slow cooker recipes, crock pot recipes, vegetarian crock pot recipes, vegetarian cookbook, healthy, slow cooker recipes, nutrition, easy recipes, slow cooker, slow cooker cookbook, crockpot slow cooker, easy recipes, slow cooker recipes, simple recipes, snack recipes, cook book, dinner ideas, quick recipes, simple and easy recipes, easy recipes, simple recipes, ebooks, cooking, healthy recipes, simple recipes, healthy eating, lunch ideas, how to recipes, cook book, how to, do it yourself, how to cook, healthy, how to cook, simple easy, recipes, food, quick and easy recipes, dinner ideas, vegetables, vegetable recipes, vegetable snacks, simple and easy recipes, simple recipes, veggie snacks, veggie recipes, vegetables, green vegetables, healthy eating, nutrition, diet, healthy snacks, healthy recipes, salad recipes, healthy vegetable recipes, vegetable recipe snacks.
4. Audible on Smartphone (ATBR).
Weaver: Four Horsemen Tales, Book 2
By: Kacey Ezell , Mark Wandrey
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
4.5. I enjoyed this story with unique characters.
I wrote a short review at Goodreads.
Source: 8/15/2021 Audible Plus Catalog expiring 12/31.
Click on book title for full description.
5. Audible on Smartphone (ATBR).
My Dead World
By: Jacqueline Druga
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Series: My Dead World Series, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
4.0 This is a character driven 'zombie' apocalypse.
I wrote a short review at Goodreads. Source: March 2023 Audible Plus Catalog. This expires 12/31.
Publisher's summary
Since childhood Nila Carter has been made to spend every weekend at the family cabin. In her teenage years she believes it to be a prison; as an adult it becomes her sanctuary and means to survive.
When a mysterious outbreak occurs in India, Nila's brother, Bobby, a virologist with the CDC, places the family on a precautionary alert to be ready to bug out. Unlike anything he's ever seen, the rabies-like virus is not just deadly; it causes extreme violent behavior in those infected. Following her brother's advice, Nila begins to stockpile.
After months of preparing, just as it seems the virus is over, everything implodes, and Bobby tells his family to leave the city. With her family, Nila heads to the mountains and to her father's isolated land. There she is eventually joined by friends and strangers, all hoping to safely stay clear of the virus that grips the world. The plan is to wait until the virus burns out.
While there, the group forms a tight bond, feeling secure that they will beat the extinction event and in due course return home. As time moves on, Nila quickly learns there are things they cannot run from, and a virus is one of them. Despite how prepared they are, how secure the land, each day brings a new threat and a painful reality that not only is returning home a pipe dream, but the likelihood of all of them surviving is increasingly growing slim.
©2016 Jacqueline Druga (P)2016 Podium Publishing
Currently Reading:
My Dead World
By: Jacqueline Druga
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Series: My Dead World Series, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
4.0 This is a character driven 'zombie' apocalypse.
I wrote a short review at Goodreads. Source: March 2023 Audible Plus Catalog. This expires 12/31.
Publisher's summary
Since childhood Nila Carter has been made to spend every weekend at the family cabin. In her teenage years she believes it to be a prison; as an adult it becomes her sanctuary and means to survive.
When a mysterious outbreak occurs in India, Nila's brother, Bobby, a virologist with the CDC, places the family on a precautionary alert to be ready to bug out. Unlike anything he's ever seen, the rabies-like virus is not just deadly; it causes extreme violent behavior in those infected. Following her brother's advice, Nila begins to stockpile.
After months of preparing, just as it seems the virus is over, everything implodes, and Bobby tells his family to leave the city. With her family, Nila heads to the mountains and to her father's isolated land. There she is eventually joined by friends and strangers, all hoping to safely stay clear of the virus that grips the world. The plan is to wait until the virus burns out.
While there, the group forms a tight bond, feeling secure that they will beat the extinction event and in due course return home. As time moves on, Nila quickly learns there are things they cannot run from, and a virus is one of them. Despite how prepared they are, how secure the land, each day brings a new threat and a painful reality that not only is returning home a pipe dream, but the likelihood of all of them surviving is increasingly growing slim.
©2016 Jacqueline Druga (P)2016 Podium Publishing
1. Kindle App on Smartphone (eB2023)
The Battle of Atlanta: A Captivating Guide to a Battle of the Atlanta Campaign That Changed the Course of the American Civil War
By Captivating History
I like how this presents factual details about the setting, people involved (military and civilians) and then the battle. I am 30% in.
Source: Offered and Downloaded through BookSprout.
If you want to immerse yourself in the history of the battle that was pivotal to the reelection of Abraham Lincoln in 1864, then keep reading…
Atlanta was the linchpin of the South’s hopes and the North’s determination, and the city became the epicenter of a battle that would change the course of history forever.
The Union Army moved in to capture the city, but the Confederates defended it. Each army employed cunning strategies in their relentless pursuit of victory.
But in the summer of 1864, the struggle reached its peak. It was also the time when the nation’s destiny hung in the balance. Every decision made by the generals affected the future of the United States, and the Battle of Atlanta became the center stage of the war.
2. Audible on Smartphone (ATBR).
Initiate: Animus, Book 1
By: Joshua Anderle , Michael Anderle
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Series: Animus Series, Book 1
Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
Another title expiring 12/31.
I am already half way through this and enjoying it.
Source: 6/30/2022 Audible Plus.
Publisher's summary
It was just one fight, but it changed Kaiden Jericho's life forever.
He was in a gang but was trying to change his future, when a board member of the elite advanced academy NEXUS made a snap decision and offered him a chance.
Then fate, or an unbalanced genius, offered him another.
The Nexus Academy is for the elite trainees from Earth, and now trials from our alien allies, as they teach the future generation how to fight, lead, hack, spy, and many other talents and tactics.
Hired by companies, governments, and NGOs, these graduates work to pay off the massive debt their training at the academy accumulates.
You don't become the best of the best by staying alive. With the Animus, you are closer to perfection with each death you suffer.
Kaiden Jericho would rather skip the death part, thank you very much.
Includes special note from co-author Michael Anderle.
©2018 Joshua Anderle and Michael Anderle (P)2019 Podium Publishing
3. Audio on Smartphone (ATBR).
Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases
By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki , Emily Janice Card
Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
This is my "Z" title to finish my 2023 Alphabet Challenge. :-)
Source: 12/3/2022 Audible Plus Catalog.
Publisher's summary
When little Zanna's oldest brother died just before Christmas, she was left with the gift she had made for him - a picture that only he would have understood. Every Christmas, Zanna's gift is brought out and displayed as a way of including their lost brother in the celebration. This is the story of the life of that family, and of the many gifts they gave each other that could only be understood with love.
©2015 Orson Scott Card (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing.
December 17, 2023 - I am doing the daily readings of BibleProject plan: The Full Story - "From the beginning to the Amen". This week's reading finished 1, 2, and 3 John, and 1Peter..
I finished five books, four of which I did short reviews at Goodreads.
NETGALLEY STATUS--
I have two new audios as well as an older audio on my shelf I should listen to (soon).
I still have the two old NetGalley ebook titles.
Other Sources: I have a dozen or so books that I received from Facebook links and newsletter sign-ups, not specific review requests. plus many titles through InstaFreebie over the past few years.
Welcome to Mailbox Monday.
Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
Three new review titles this week.
I picked my Two November Audible credits.
I still have 25 (or more) Audible Plus titles picked up over the past several weeks. I will list them another day.
I picked my Two November Audible credits.
I still have 25 (or more) Audible Plus titles picked up over the past several weeks. I will list them another day.
I downloaded one Kindle new title.
Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?
The Battle of Atlanta: A Captivating Guide to a Battle of the Atlanta Campaign That Changed the Course of the American Civil War
By Captivating History
See more under Current Reading.
12/11/2023 Two Titles received at NetGalley:
The Fish of Small Wishes
by Elana K. Arnold
Narrated by Erin Ruth Walker
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2024
Archive Date: 06 Feb 2024
Deep Freeze
by Michael C. Grumley
Narrated by Scott Brick
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2024
Archive Date: 16 Jan 2024
Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?
Review Titles
12/6/23 Offered and Downloaded through BookSprout.By Captivating History
See more under Current Reading.
12/11/2023 Two Titles received at NetGalley:
by Elana K. Arnold
Narrated by Erin Ruth Walker
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2024
Archive Date: 06 Feb 2024
by Michael C. Grumley
Narrated by Scott Brick
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2024
Archive Date: 16 Jan 2024
Won
NONE
Purchased
12/17/23 Two Audible Credits.
Expeditionary Force, Book 9
By: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
By: Tom Abrahams
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
Free
12/11/2023 Found at The Book Connection. Thank you Cheryl.
Cat Cahill
One new titles added to Kindle library. Free titles might be found at Bookbub, Book Adrenaline, Ereader News Today, Inspired Reads, or Kindle ebooks.
Good luck being ready for Christmas. I'm in good shape, but I need to get a little more done.
ReplyDeleteI hope all you need to do this week gets done. I love the wreath placing you did. My niece who lives in DC did the same at Arlington on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteMary @Bookfan
Nice posts.
ReplyDeleteI have done all the gift buying I will but have not wrapped any yet. I'm not big on Christmas but do love giving gifts. I love watching my grands and great grands open gifts. Kids are fun at Christmas.
Have a nice week.
Sounds like you are keeping busy in these days before Christmas. Thanks for the info on finding out when Audible Plus titles expire. I found most of mine are lacking an end date, but a couple were already unavailable. Come see my week here. Happy reading and happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteA busy time of the year Martha, I don't know how to tell when my Audible Plus books expire, but I lost a few already, so much to listen to, which is great.
ReplyDeleteVegetable cookbook recipes look excellent! Enjoy the holidays.
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