Hello again and welcome to another week of reading.
I was bored, so I went through the newsletters Thursday morning and picked up a bunch of free ebooks. Plus, an acquaintance I trust mentioned a new release SF, so I snagged that, too. Four books leftover from last month and 5 new books. Yay! I also still have most of those Agatha Christie's to read, a couple Phyllis Whitneys and... well, scads of other hardcopy books to read.
Books Read:
31) Ready to Were (Shift Happens #1) by Robyn Peterman (4/13/19) - Paranormal Romance* - 5 stars. New to me, but not underappreciated. Picked up off the Freebooksy newsletter.
Review: "Loads of fun."
30) The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (4/13/19) - Mystery - 5 stars. First time I read it, but Agatha Christie is definitely not new to me or underappreciated. Purchased at St. Vinny's for 50c.
Review: "Agatha
Christie's first book... I can't believe I'd never read this one
before. Interesting to see how it all began. Definitely shows why she's
the Grand Dame of Mystery."
DNFs:
4/19/19 - Paranormal Mystery. It read more like a travelogue or the beginning of a bad romance where the author is trying to show how much research she did on the location without giving a hint of the plot. I gave up waiting for something to happen and moved on. Too much to read to waste time on this one. Luckily, it was a freebie I found on Ereader News Today.
4/18/19 - Romantic Suspense. I wanted to like this, really I did, but I found myself making excuses to not read it rather than being excited to pick it up again. At about a third of the way through, I finally decided to read something that did excite me. I only paid 50c for it at the thrift store and that goes to a good cause, I guess. It'll go to St. Vinny's on my next trip.
I'm currently reading the fifth book in a cozy mystery series I hadn't read yet. :shrug: I didn't notice the book was #5 until after I downloaded it and I thought I'd give it a whirl. So far, so good.
What did you read last week? Any keepers? Anything you couldn't bring yourself to waste time on?
I'm still wending my way through the BDB seriesm just starting book 11 today. Either they're getting better or I'm getting ennured to the stuff that bugs me. Also, a mix of audio and Kindle, depending on library availability. I did divert while waiting on the next in series because, dude, BDB HAS to be read in order. I grabbed a book I'd already listened to but hadn't marked it on Goodreads--Kevlar to My Vest. No. Seriously. The author's titles are awful. It was 6 hours of killing time so okay. No DNFs for me this week.
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