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I forgot to come and post that I have started Penn Cage #3. The Devil’s Punch Bowl. I am reading this series with Jannene and Dom. This is the first book we are reading together after they caught up on the first two. Whew! This one is a wild ride! I am posting in their joint thread.

I can’t wait to listen to The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes book and the Sookie Stackhouse book I have planned for the August Monthly challenge. It will be my first time listening to Sookie. I hear that the narrator is a treat!

I forgot that I had the ebook version of Blackwood Farm, Vampire Chronicles #9. It will expire in 6 days so I am starting it today.

I am at 56% in The Devil’s Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3). It does not expire until Aug 15th.

The Art of Detection expires in 6 days but I have the Sookie Stackhouse audiobook Dead to the World until Aug 15th.

I seem to be stuck in Louisiana and Mississippi for the duration.

Slammed it! I started and finished both The Vampire Armand - Vampire Chronicles and The Art of Deception - The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries both today.

I am abandoning Finishing School by Gail Carriger 1/7 DNF August 3rd. I was listening with my granddaughter, but it seems she has moved on and I am not interested in listening any longer. I thought it was totally stupid.

According to Almeta, I need to read the The Wayfair Witches (three books) before I continue on to the next book in the Vampire Chronicles, which will be Merrick. It might not happen until next month. I have to finish my August reads first.

I finished listening to Dead to the World last night just before I went to bed. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. The narrator was perfect for the character! I can’t wait to see what developed next in Sookie’s life.

I just finished The Devil's Punchbowl. It was not as nail biting as I thought it was going to be. That was a relief although I certainly never could guess what was going to happen from one moment to the next. The dog fighting information and statistics were awful to read and to know. I can do without any more in future stories. I am also ready to read the next book!

I am listening to another Sherlock Holmes book by Nicholas Meyer.
The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D.. Who knew we were going to get a story from the time of "the great hiatus" when Holmes was supposed to be dead, supposedly told to Watson in 1912 when Holmes was keeping bees on the downs?

I just realized that I did not report that I was listening to a previous Nicholas Meyers story called The West End Horror. It took me a few minutes to get used to David Case narrating, but he grew on me.

I thought I owned the next Sookie Stackhouse book in paperback, but I see that it is #7, not #5. I really need to re-organize my book shelf.

Before I read another series book, I need to finish my yearly challenge book, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. It is sitting beside my chair and every time I grab my Nook tablet to read something, I feel it glaring at me.

Ok, I finished listening to The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. this morning when I was doing dishes. The Phantom of the Opera tie-in was a little over the top. ;o)

I have the latest book to listen to now and I will be ready to kill this series. Amazing the time span between years writing these books. He published The Seven-Percent Solution in 1974, and The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. last year.

I finished listening to The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. this morning.
It was a great story of Holmes and Watson in Egypt looking for a lost Duke and meeting Howard Carter before he discovered King Tut's tomb. The audiobook was narrated by David Robb and the author (the footnotes and author's notes).

The Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches by Nicholas Meyer is killed!

My eyes needed a rest so I gave my ears more of a workout and listened to Sookie Stackhouse #5 and #6. #7 is on hold from my library.

I hadn’t intended to start another new series but when my library serves them up when I need an audiobook to listen to, I take them.
The book is The Burning Sky, the first book in The Elemental Trilogy by Sherry Thomas (author of The Lady Sherlock series). I downloaded all three. 😁

Magic, a dragon, a Prince, a Bane and a sixteen yo girl attending a boys�� school in London. Awesome!

I finished listening to The Burning Sky. I really liked it and cannot wait to start the next audiobook. Philip Battley grew on me. :o)

I will start Natchez Burning this weekend, after I finish two other library books and do some wrist exercises to strengthen my hands.

I finished my Star Trek book and have a list of The Lost Era ones to look up now.

I started listening to The Perilous Sea, the second book in The Elementals Trilogy. This one keeps going back and forth to two different times/locations. I do not like this as much, but the story is still very good, so far.

After the fact, the second Elemental trilogy book was great! I couldn’t put it down before I finished it on Saturday.

I am going to start listening to the 7th Sookie Stackhouse audiobook before I finish the trilogy.

I finished All Together Dead - not one of my favorite stories for Sookie. Has the author painted her into a corner?
I have downloaded #8 but have not started it yet.

I downloaded the third book in the Shades of Magic trilogy. I am giving the audio another try. I like Kate Reading better than the other narrator. There is also a narrator for the male parts this time - Michael Kramer.

I finished listening to From Dead to Worse this afternoon and I am going to start Dead and Gone next.

Then, it will be a choice between listening to A Conjuring of Light or The Immortal Heights - both for trilogy enders.

I finished listening to Dead and Gone. I am going to give Sookie a break and finish a couple of trilogies while I am reading Natchez Burning for Penn Cage.

I started listening to The Immortal Heights simply because it has fewer files than A Conjuring of Light. I really like listening to the audio, but there are times I wish I had an ebook or text copy. I think I am missing some of the names and events at times. I am really interested in seeing how this YA story comes to an end.

I am thirty percent of the way through Natchez Burning, which is considered the first book in a trilogy in the Penn Cage series. It seem to start out as a race rant, but has become a who done it both in the past and seeming into the present. Penn's father is on the hot seat in this story - so far along with a lot of really bad, bad guys.

Looking at the Penn Cage series list on GR, the author indicates to read Blood Memory to "appreciate Tom Cage. Another 800 page story, but I have it on hold.

I downloaded the audiobook of The Death Factory, a 112page novella featuring Penn and his father, Tom. I am going to listen to it before I continue with Natchez Burning.

I finished listening to the novella late last night. Sad. I started Blood Memory. This is not part of the Penn Cage series but his father, Tom Cage is supposed to be in it. About “Cat�� Ferry, who grew up in Natchez and is a bite print specialist with the FBI. Something happened to her when she was eight. She is a DeSalle “woman�� and a failure to her mother and Grandfather.

Well, the author sucked me into reading his book, Blood Memory. It was a pretty good story although at times I didn’t like the MC at all. As for Tom Cage, he was in it for like two minutes.
I will be back to reading Natchez Burning later today.

I am half way through the audiobook of The Immortal Heights. I have to go back a few chapters though. I fell asleep. I might even start over. I’m in no hurry. 🙃

The ending of The Immortal Heights was great!
I am declaring The Elemental Trilogy killed! Another series started and killed this year, I am on a roll!

I am listening to the third book in the Shades of Magic trilogy now. A Conjuring of Light. I like this audiobook narration much better than I did the first book! Different narrator(s). There are two for this one - Kate Reading and Michael Kramer. Steven Crossley was the narrator of the first one.

That cover looks spooky!

Janice - I liked all of the covers for The Elemental Trilogy books. They were not spooky at all.

Jannene - I finished Natchez Burning yesterday.
I am not ready to read the next one for at least another month! It was gripping at the end!

I am starting Blue Dahlia for the monthly challenge. It is the first book in In the Garden trilogy.

I finished listening to Shades of Magic: A Conjuring of Light and really loved it, but there was so much at the end that it was hard to keep up. I have the ebook on hold to read the actual last couple of chapters, so I am not going to report the trilogy as finished yet.

I got a notice from my library that they bought #18 in the Walt Longmire series, which was just published. I am #5 in line to get it. I will be reading it as an orphan.

My library hold on the Walt Longmire book just came free. I downloaded it to my Nook tablet, but I am so overwhelmed with books at the moment that I cannot decide which one to rotate to next. I am dying to read Hell and Back though. The last book ended with him taking off to somewhere and the foreshadowing was that it was going to be bad. It is HARD but I am going to wait until I get through some of my other books.

I got the hard copy of A Conjuring of Light from my library. I went back farther than I needed to read but it is too good to pass up.
I liked this from Part Eleven, VIII:
“Myths do not happen all at once.
They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words - to the memories - to keep them rolling on their own.��

I have seven books all going at once again.

“A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds.��

Last part. 42 pages to go.

I finished reading the ending of [book[author:V.E. Schwab|7168230]:A Conjuring of Light|29939230] yesterday. It was a great story!
Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab is finished Sept 2022

I finished Blue Dahlia for an alternate read for the monthly challenge. It had been on my TBR list for a while. I added the In the Garden trilogy to my new for this year list.

Now - although I have two other library books to finish - I am going to read the latest Walt Longmire book. It is an orphan to the series that I finished earlier this year.

The One and Only Crystal Druid is an audiobook I am currently listening to. I may add The Guild Codex: Unveiled to my list - only if my library has the other two. There is a 4th book due out at the end of this month.

From Walt Longmire #18, Hell and Back. “��...life, you can live it or be continually distracted until you are surprised to discover that like smoke from a dead fire, it is gone.��

I’m listening to the last Sookie Stackhouse, #13.

I have been listening to Aurora Teagarden books too. One left there, I think. Meh.

Hmm.. I finished Dead Ever After Oct 11th. I think that finishes the series. I am going to call it anyway and move it to my killed list for the year. I still want to read the short stories books if I can locate them.

I finished the Walt Longmire book on Sept 22nd.

I listened to three The Guild Codex: Unveiled books but the third one lost me. I think I need to revisit them in ebook or text. The fourth book, The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid was just published in Sept 2022. My library does not have it yet. I just added them to my paper speradsheet.

I read (listened to) 7 Aurora Teagarden books by Charlaine Harris. I finished #7 Last Scene Alive on Oct 10th.
Need to look them up and add to list. There are three books left.

I read the two Waverley Family books Garden Spells and First Frost. I have Other Birds on hold, but I do not think it is part of the series, just by the same author. I like her characters and the way she tells a story.

I'm happy to see you posting Cherie. I was getting really worried that something had happened.

See? Not just me.

Thank you both for your caring.
I am fine. Still reading/listening to books but just not motivated to log-in. Been busy with work and life. Feeling well. Went south to visit my sister in Grants Pass and found the Rogue River Rooster one day. We went for a hike in the Trees of Mystery (giant Redwood trees) and saw a whole swamp of pitcher plants. We visited Brookings and collected rocks and bought a case of just canned tuna. No internet service can be very therapeutic, frustrating and strange all at the same time. I crocheted a corn on the cob hat for my grandson for Halloween and learned how to knit hats on a round loom. Not my thing, really. I prefer knitting.in the round.

I finally listened and read along to Howl’s Moving Castle. I have the next two books on hold.

Back to my Danielle Steel book - Until the End of Time. 😊

Your time off sounds eventful Cherie. I'm glad it was therapeutic for you. :)

I am currently listening to the eighth Aurora Teagarden book called Poppy Done to Death. I think I overdosed on the series when I was able to get the first seven books right away from my library. She is an okay character and the plots funny, some more than others, in the Charlaine Harris kind of way. Ho hum, a few unexpected sex bits, and a lot more characters than one could want to keep track of. The “Poppy�� book started off the same way but at some point this morning took on a more ear catching turn. I could have quit and given up on the series without a second thought but there are only two books left after this. Keeping on.

I finished the 10th Aurora Teagarden book yesterday. The last one had too much about the baby and only got 3 stars. I liked #8 and 9 better. I am glad it is done. Aurora Teagarden is Declared killed Nov 2022.

My holds on Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways became available a couple of days ago and I downloaded them. I finished Castle in the Air on Saturday. I had no idea what the next book was to be about, but after wandering all over the countryside, the two main characters finally met up with Sophie almost at the end. It was an interesting magic carpet/jinni-in-the-bottle tale. All three of the books are narrated by Jenny Sterlin. I owned the first one in ebook, so I bought the next two, just to have them in my Nook library.
I am currently listening to/reading along with House of Many Ways.

I finished House of Many Ways today so I can declare Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy as Killed Nov 2022. I still need to update my list.

I started another new series. After listening to The Long Ships narrated by Michael Page, I scanned my library offerings for more books narrated by him and the first book in the Max Tudor series was available. Max is a former MI5 agent and currently the vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monk-slip on the southwest coast of England. There has been a murder. Not much has been revealed about Max’s past at this point. He is single and seems to have no plans to change his status any time soon.

I finished Max Tudor #1 and have the second book on hold. I added the series to my list. I liked the way the story was written and I liked Max. :o) There are currently 7 books published.

Go figure. Another first-in-series I must have bought on sale. Hmmm, there is a train speeding by on the cover, and a woman standing on the siding with a gun in her hand.

I’m going to give Dave Sinclair’s An Eva Destruction Novel, The Barista’s Guide to Espionage, a try. Hopefully I won’t have to resort to drink to finish it. Santa might not like it.