2021 Goals
3,000 pages per month: Jan; June, July, August
Ebooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Current: +147
Audiobooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Current +13
Magazines - TBR Reduced by 10; Current -6
12 Books over 600 pages: 1
Magazines Read So Far: 6
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2021 Purchases Read:
Bought: 213 Read: 16
Free: 60 Read: 2
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Short Stories, Novellas, Short Dramas: 19
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Books
January - Pages Read:3138
01. 5/5 A Quiet Gentleman - Georgette Heyer (audio)
Martin/Gervaise interactions are so hilarious. Love this.
02. 5/5 Pines - Blake Crouch (audio+ebook)
Reread. Lots of suspense. A bit violent, but not excessively so.
03. 5/5 Wayward - Blake Crouch (audio+ebook)
Lots of action going on.
04. 5/5 The Last Town - Blake Crouch (audio+ebook)
Suspense at a rapid pace.
05. 5/5 McNally's Secret - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Reread - still love this guy. Cozy featuring a playboy Floridian
06. 1/5 Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connelly - Felix Savage (audio)
Quit after an hour. YA? I'm clearly not the intended audience.
07. 5/5 McNally's Luck - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Archie is such a treasure. A potential disappointment to his parents, yet succeeds
08. 5/5 Edited to Death - Elizabeth Spann Craig
A manuscript is stolen from Myrtle's house; author is then murdered
09. 5/5 The House Guest - Mark Edwards (audio)
Two Brits housesit in NYC accept that a woman is a friend of the owners.
10. 4/5 Hushed Up - Elizabeth Spann Craig
Florist is murdered after Wanda's warning.
February Pages Read: 1591
11. 4/5 One Man Massacre - Jonas Ward
Tom goes for a night of cards and maybe dancing and ends up in a war.
12. 4/5 The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton
A man who gets visions from inside the Void threatens the Universe.
13. 1/5 Off To Be A Wizard - Scott Meyer (audio) RETURNED
YA quit after an hour. Narrator was good.
14. 5/5 McNally's Risk - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Murder and a prenup; Archie gets in the middle.
15. 3/5 The Door With Seven Locks - Edgar Wallace
Good story but ebook is full of typos which was very distracting.
16. 5/5 The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien (audio)
Wonderful retelling with narrator Andy Serkis.
March Pages Read: 1650
17. 4/5 McNally's Caper - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Too much time taken by non-plot elements.
18. 2/5 Working Stiff - Annelise Ryan (audio+ebook)
Not for me but narration was excellent.
19. 5/5 Fine Art of Murder - Donald Bain (audio)
Art and murder; a little Italian as well.
April Pages Read: 2132
20. 4/5 Sphere - Michael Crichton (audio)
Science is sometimes iffy, but enjoyable anyway.
21. 3/5 Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets - John Wolff (audio)
Non-fiction entertaining discussion of Victorian era
22. 2/5 Evelyn, After - Victoria Helen Stone (ebook+audio)
Dark romance more than suspense. Not for me. Narration excellent.
23. 4/5 Lost Fleet: Dauntless - Jack Campbell (ebook+audiobook)
Good story. Captain Jack Black wakes up a century after his last battle.
24. 5/5 Lost Fleet: Fearless - Jack Campbell (audio)
Plot was better. Battles are excellent as last book.
25. 3/5 Black Beauty - Anne Sewell (audio)
Autobiography of a horse. Good story.
26. 3/5 Sourcery - Terry Pratchett (audio)
Good book but not as good as other Diskworld novels.
27. 3/5 Gateway - Frederick Pohl (audio)
A bit of a drag for me. Good story, but adventure was not really sustained.
May Pages Read: 2808
28. 3/5 A Robot Named Clunk - Simon Haynes (ebook + audio)
Humerous scifi, but not hilarious as billed.
29. 5/5 In Farleigh Field - Rhys Bowen (audio)
Excellent story based in WW2.
30. 4/5 Devil's Deep - Michael Wallace
Thriller that goes from Vermont to Costa Rica. Good story.
31. 5/5 Faithful Unto Death - Caroline Graham (audio+ebook)
Midsommer Murders. Excellent.
32. 3/5 Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L Sayers (audio)
Audio on this book was rather low, so a bit hard to hear for me.
33. 4/5 A Morbid Taste of Bones - Ellis Peters (audio+ebook)
Good story; monks want to take over a Saint from a parish in Wales
34. 4/5 Pandemic - Robin Cook
Good story although the main character is a bit of a arrogant jerk.
35. 4/5 Echoes in Death - J D Robb
Still like this series, but prefer random over in order now.
36. 4/5 A Body In The Attic - Elizabeth Spann Craig
Another body found by Miles and Myrtle. Serious gnome army going on too.
June Pages Read: 3705
37. 4/5 McNally's Trial - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
This time it's funeral homes. And a bad assistant.
38. 5/5 The Princeling - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (audio+ebook)
Another excellent story.
39. 4/5 Animal Farm - George Orwell (audio)
Still a cool book. Narration was fabulous!
40. 4/5 Small Gods - Terry Pratchett (ebook)
Good story.
41. 4/5 McNally's Puzzle - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Good story but I got lost somewhere in there hence 4 stars.
42. 5/5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (audio)
Both funny & distressing. Abridged/read by author.
43. 2/5 Dead Wrong - Leighann Dobbs (audio)
Just not for me.
44. 3/5 Sourdough - Robin Sloan (audio)
Paranormal sourdough starter. My baking heart loved this.
45. 4/5 McNally's Gamble - Lawrence Sanders (audio)
Faberge eggs during Christmas season.
July Pages Read: 4136
46. 5/5 The Paper Princess - M C Beaton (audio)
Really loved this. It's been awhile since I've enjoyed a Regency romance.
47. 5/5 Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman (audio)
Excellent start to this series. Rabbi implicated in murder of young woman.
48. 3/5 Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny - Garrison Keilor (audio)
PI starts out well but fizzles a little over 1/2 through. Still good.
49. 5/5 Elantris (Graphic Audio) - Brandon Sanderson (audio)
Great!! Enjoyable presentation!
50. 5/5 Long Time No See - Ed McBain (audio)
Great story. Unexpected.
51. 4/5 Ghostly Paws - Leighann Dobbs (audio)
Pretty good, mostly sensible cozy with a paranormal element.
52. 5/5 The Last Train - Michael Pronko
Excellent murder mystery set in Tokyo.
53. 5/5 Memory - Lois McMaster Bujold (audio)
Excellent mid series story! Simon & Gregor feature.
54. 2/5 Dust Angel - Jutta Profijt (ebook+audio)
While improved towards end, this was boring.
55. 5/5 Dead Game - Michael Avallone (ebook)
This was more of a thriller than pulp crime novel. This was great!
56. 5/5 A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George (ebook)
Conflict between investigators and beheading of man in barn.
August Pages Read: 3020
57. 5/5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J D Rowling (audio)
Stephen Fry narration. Excellent!!
58. 2/5 The Barbarian Prince - Michelle Pillow (audio)
Rewrite is awful. Gave one extra star for the narrator.
59. 5/5 The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pourelle (audio+ebook)
Excellent first contact story!
60. 5/5 Death of a Hollow Man - Caroline Graham (audio)
Death on the stage. Excellent story.
61. 5/5 Spellbound - Larry Correia (audio)
Way better than book one. Loved this.
62. 3/5 Murder on Main Street - Judith Ivie (audio+ebook)
Cozy. Group of women who have a real estate office investigate murder.
63. 3/5 Waiting for Armando - Judith Ivie (audio+ebook)
This first book of the series was only so-so.
64. 4/5 Skeleton in the Closet - Judith Ivie (audio+ebook)
Good cozy. Stronger plot than previous books.
65. 3/5 Drowning in Christmas - Judith Ivie (audio+ebook)
Turkey, wedding and I'm tired of main character's whining
September Pages Read: 1724
66. 4/5 The Hangman's Daughter - Oliver Potzsch (audio+ebook)
Torment of women will make you angry, but mostly historically accurate. Good story.
67. 4/5 Dying Wishes - Judith K Ivie (audio+ebook)
Good story with focus on legal issues around end of life.
68. 4/5 Warbound - Larry Coreia (audio)
Good end to trilogy. Lots of battles.
69. 4/5 Trouble at High Tide - Jessica Fletcher (audio)
Jessica finds a body while on vacation in Bermuda.
70. 4/5 Domestic Malice - Jessica Fletcher (audio)
Good story focuses on domestic violence
October Pages Read: 419
71. 3/5 Host - Robin Cook (audio)
Some odd stuff here, but the plot was mostly good.
November Pages Read: 812
72. 5/5 Goodbye Piccadilly - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (audio)
Good intro to historical fiction series on WW1
73. 4/5 Hades Project - Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds
Weaponized virus
December Pages Read: 1467
74. 5/5 Misery - Stephen King (audio) *
This was excellent and chilling.
75. 3/5 Golden Age of Science Fiction - Various
Anthology - a few outstanding, most good.
76. 3/5 Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch - Ruth Cowen (audio)
I enjoyed early life as I was not familiar with those details.
77. 3/5 Last of the Magpies - Mark Edwards (audio)
* - unowned
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TBR = owned books
TBR (audio) Jan 1: 1017 (includes freebees)
TBR (ebooks) Jan 1: 1513 (includes magazines, no freebees)
Audiobooks listened: 66 (including 00 freebies, 1 abandoned, 6 re-reads)
Books Read: 29 (including 1 freebies, 1 abandoned, 4 re-read)
Books otherwise removed from TBR: 0
Book Rating/Comments:
1: Awful, or did not finish
2: So, so, or not to my taste
3: Good book
4: Very good book; possible reread.
5: Wonderful book! A keeper.
