The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 8-27-23

Posted on August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

I did better this week than last week on actually reading the books I intended to read. Howsomever, by the time the end of the week closed in – which is actually on Wednesday for the purpose of reading Friday’s book – when I started Wolfsong I just wasn’t feeling it, even though I really wanted to read it. But it’s 500 pages of slow burn and that just wasn’t the mood I was in AT ALL. So that will come back around at some point later when that’s a bit closer to the mood I’m in at the time.

This week’s schedule may actually hold up – even though the name of Friday’s giveaway hop does me in every single year. I want it to be ‘Glitz’ instead of ‘Glits’. I’m not even sure what a ‘glit’ is! But it’s the Glam and Glits Giveaway Hop and that’s just the way it is.

Also it’ll be the OMG first of September and that’s just the way that is as well. It feels like August has lasted FOREVER, melting us all in the hot summer sun.

Stacking the Shelves (563)

Posted on August 26, 2023August 25, 2023 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | Stacking the Shelves

I was having a bit of an epic book flail at the end of the week, Audible was having a sale, Tor Books was very, very kind about an advanced listening copy of Starter Villain as I’d already read and reviewed the book, AND I received a review assignment for book 6 in a series where I’d only read book 2. The result – well, most of the result as this list got really long – is the stack you see before you. Some reading weeks are just like that.

The best title on this list, is clearly, and without a doubt, That Time I got Drunk and Saved a Demon. If it even half lives up to its Legends & Lattes, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea vibe it’s going to be awesome.

riders come out at night by ali winston an darwin bondgraham

stephen leeds death and faxes by brandon sanderson audio

that time i got drunk and saved a demon by kimberly lemming

glass hotel by emily st john mandel audio

For Review:
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller
A Haunting at Linley (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #7) by Michelle Cox
Nuts and Bolts by Roma Agrawal
The Riders Come Out at Night by Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham
A Spying Eye (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #6) by Michelle Cox
The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs
Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius
Starter Villain by John Scalzi (audio)
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps #1) by Kimberly Lemming

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
A Child Lost (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #5) by Michelle Cox
A Girl Like You (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #1) by Michelle Cox
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (audio)
The Hunter’s Apprentice (Adventures of Keltin Moore #4) by Lindsay Schopfer
A Promise Given (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #3) by Michelle Cox
Stephen Leeds: Death & Faxes (Legion #1.5) by Brandon Sanderson (audio)
A Veil Removed (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #4) by Michelle Cox

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 8-20-23

Posted on August 20, 2023August 20, 2023 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand> Winner announcement

I almost wrapped up this post for the “Coming This Week” bit with “two players to be named later” or just TBD (to be determined) because this has just been one of those months where things fall apart at the end of the week. C’est la vie.

This week specifically went to bits because one of the ‘mystery’ Kindle Achievements was revealed to be ‘Series Summer’ that required reading a book in a popular series. Clearly Amazon’s definition of ‘popular series’ was different from mine, because I hoped that the Sebastian St. Cyr book would cover it – but it didn’t. This week’s Thursday Murder Club book, on the other hand, absolutely did! But the next Wrexford & Sloane book in my catching up read has been calling my name, so I’m just admitting up front that I’ll be reading it this week.

Current Giveaways:

$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Back to School Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Old School Giveaway Hop
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Summer 2023 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Winner Announcements:

The winner of the Apple A Day Giveaway Hop is Daniel M.

Blog Recap:

A Review: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
B Review: Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney
Old School Giveaway Hop
C Review: Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? by Norma Dunning
A- Review: Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris
Stacking the Shelves (562)

Coming This Week:

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (review)
Cursed at Dawn by Heather Graham (blog tour review)
Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix (review)
Murder at Kensington Palace by Andrea Penrose (review)
Wolfsong by TJ Klune (review)

Stacking the Shelves (562)

Posted on August 19, 2023August 17, 2023 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | Stacking the Shelves

I am head over heels in love with both the cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives as well as the premise of the story. I don’t know about you, but there are certainly meals from my childhood that I would love to recreate, meals that my grandma cooked and of course never wrote down any of the recipes. She also made the BEST chocolate chip cookies in the universe. She swore she got the recipe off the back of the Nestle’s semi-sweet chips bag just like everyone else, but I’ve never been able to recreate it and I’ve tried and Tried and TRIED! If I think back I can STILL see the cookie jar she kept them in and taste them and it’s been 50 years. Don’t think my mom wasn’t a good cook, because she was, but she just wasn’t quite as good as my grandma, something that my dad could not resist reminding her of just a bit too often.

Good, The Bad, & The Uncanny, The - Jonathan Maberry

hidden in plain sight by rachel stephens

times that try mens souls by joyce lee malcolm

life and lies of charles dickens by helena kelly

kamogawa food detectives by hisashi kashiwai

For Review:
The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns
American Vikings by Martyn Whittock
The Good, the Bad, & the Uncanny edited by Jonathan Maberry
Hidden in Plain Sight by Rachel Stephens
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai,translated by Jesse Kirkwood
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen
Tali Girls by Siamak Herawi, translated by Sara Khalili
The Times That Try Men’s Souls by Joyce Lee Malcolm
The Tory’s Wife by Cynthia A. Kierner
The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert #2) by Moses Ose Utomi
Untold Power by Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Magical Midlife Madness (Leveling Up #1) by K.F. Breene

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 8-13-23

Posted on August 13, 2023August 12, 2023 by Marlene Harris | Author : Marlene Harris | The Sunday Post> Virtual Nightstand

If you take a look at last Sunday’s Sunday Post, you can see that I intended to finish out this week with three thrillers in a row. Which was not terribly good planning on my part, as, while I like the occasional thriller, particularly by authors I’m already familiar with, that’s well, a bit much in one week for me. Some genres I can read all week long, but horror or thrillers, and this would have been both, one at a time is enough. Hence the week ending flail.

This week may be the same, although for different reasons. I’m sure about the first three days, because they’re already done. Thursday and Friday – not so much. We’ll see.

And on a lighter note that began as a heavier note, I call this picture ‘Return of the Monster Vacuum’, in tribute to Purina’s Dear Kitten videos – which have been rebooted – so if you love cats and haven’t seen them, they’re awesome and they’re back. In the Dear Kitten series, an older cat is passing on his words of wisdom to a kitten he’s not too sure is worth the trouble but he thinks so highly of himself (as they do) and enjoys expounding so much that he can’t resist the impulse. In those videos the older cat teaches the kitten about, among many other things, the dreaded ‘MONSTER VACUUM’. This picture was taken during the monthly houseclean, as Lucifer, Hecate and George instinctually ‘treed’ themselves in the cats’ room while the Monster Vacuum did it’s terrible work.