It's Monday! What are you reading? 08/19/2019

Hosted by: Book Date

Ah, life.  I haven't participated in this since last October, and so much has happened, some bad, some good.

• My father is in a nursing home now.  
• We lost my 23-yo cousin to suicide at the end of July.  He had the same mental diagnosis as my father (who has made multiple attempts, but so far has only managed to compromise his health).  
• And we've lost one dog and a bearded dragon.  
• But a new beast - er, puppy - joined the family.  (She's a toy poodle, but she's LOUD and FEISTY.)
• I started a new position (with the same library) in March (It is technically a promotion, but doesn't feel that way, just different.)
• I took an online grad school biology class this summer.  I haven't taken any courses in 10 years, and I've never done so while working full time.  But I survived and even managed an A!  
• Also, I finally (FINALLY!) got the helicopter ride that I won last summer. It was awesome.  We flew over my hometown and I loved it.
• My work has occasional health challenges, and for the current challenge, we had to not watch TV for two days. I had no idea how difficult that would be! I very rarely watched TV as a child, even when my siblings did.  But I used this as an opportunity to re-discover my love of reading and got in 2.5 books during those two days.

This past few weeks, I've finished:

Star Witch and Spirit Witch by Helen Harper (These are books 2 & 3 in the Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic.  I borrowed both of these through InterLibrary Loan at the Library.  I just saw that there is a novella following; I went ahead and purchased it on Amazon, which I rarely do.)

Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (The first Gus Murphy book, I started reading this for a book discussion in June and only just recently finished it.  I'm not opposed to following up with book 2, but don't know when that is likely to happen.)

Werewolves of the Heartland by Bill Willingham et al. (Part of the Fables series, with a ridiculous amount of nudity - especially this issue - but a world and story line(s) I've been enjoying.)

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny (Read by Ralph Cosham; Book 10 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series) - My post for this can be found at: https://ponderingthelibrary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-long-way-home.html

Currently reading/listening:

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Read by Ann Marie Lee, Will Patton, and Danny Campbell.  This is for a book discussion taking place Tuesday.)

Started but on indefinite hold:

I have three audiobooks that I started over the past  1 1/2 years but haven't finished.  Two of them were digital (a problematic format for me to do audio) and one of them is a hunkster:  

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, and Moby Dick.

I'll get to these eventually, but I can't say when.

Upcoming:

• More Fables Books
• and the Sparkle Witch eNovella I just bought,.
• I really need to read Penne Dreadful by Catherine Bruns (an ebook I got through NetGalley AGES ago), and 
• I just received the Eye Spy by Mercedes Lackey from the library.  
• Oh, and I should be starting As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley in audio shortly.