It's been a couple weeks since I did a wrap-up. Sorry about that. Anyway, here goes...
I snagged 5 new ebooks - all from the Amazon Top 100 free lists in either Suspense or Murder. I tried to only get books with fewer than 50 reviews and often less than 10 reviews. We'll see how that goes. I'd really like to be able to read some good, underappreciated stuff and give it 4 stars or better. No new hardcopies.
Books Read:
26) The Border Legion by Zane Grey (11/9/24) - Western - 4 stars. Neither new to me nor underappreciated. I've had this one for a while. In fact, it's my last unread Zane Grey. I'll have to start scouring the used bookstores again soon.
Review: "Not my favorite Zane Grey. It certainly held my attention, but there were aspects of the characters I wasn't exactly keen on. To each their own."
25) The Case of the Waylaid Wolf / The Case of the Restless Redhead by Erle Stanley Gardner (11/2/24) - Mystery - 5 stars. Neither new to me nor underappreciated (except this edition doesn't have loads of stars). I've had this since Colorado and I think I paid like $3 for the whole box of these.
No review.
DNFs:
11/11/24 - free - suspense. I tried, really I did. I made it about halfway through before I just couldn't take it anymore. Ugh, the whole 'skipping around, head-hopping, too stupid to live, WTF is going on here' killed what was a pretty good premise. =o\
Currently Reading... I'm reading this huge compendium of HG Wells works. I finished War of the Worlds yesterday and set the volume aside. Not sure when I'll get back to that. Then I started one of the new ebooks I picked up. So far, so good. I'm about 9 books short of reaching my goal for 2024. I could reach that if I tried.
What have you been reading lately?
It has been awhile. I have no clue where I left off the last time we met for a wrap-up so I'll just to a brief recap. I finished off the marathon relisten of Darynda Jones's Charley Davidson-Grim Reapter series. Thirteen books plus an audio short. There are for more novellas set in the world but sans Charley--they deal with the daughter born to Charley and Reyes. I'm about to finish the first of those, THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT. In between SUMMONED TO THIRTEENTH GRAVE and the current novella, I snuck in a semi-short audio book ROCK CHICK BONUS TRACKS, with scenes from the POVs of various heroes in the Rock Chick series by Kristen Ashley.
ReplyDeleteI upped my GR challenge to 90 books. I've finished 74 (soon-to-be 75 books in about 30 minutes) and I'm 4 books (soon-to-be 3) behind schedule. It shouldn't be hard to catch back up.
Sadly, none of these books are under appreciated in anyway shape or form but all things considered, I've needed "tried and true" books and authors. On that note, I'm getting off the webz and finishing off GRAVEYARD SHIFT and will be starting THE GRAVEDIGGER'S SON shortly thereafter. Hope to see ya here next week! 😉