75 Books...More or Less! discussion

We've got a long readathon starting today! To encompass Canada Day and Independence Day, one at the beginning of the week and one at the end of the week.

This readathon will go from today, June 28 through July 7!

What are you reading?

I think I'm going to take #SciFiJune into #SciFiSummer because I'm really enjoying what I'm reading!
Reading
(66%)
(33%)
(0%)
TBR

Hooray!

I've been reading some heavy stuff lately, so I think for the holiday I'll focus on cozy mysteries and a very readable cookbook. I just picked up all of these from my library:

Cozy Mysteries by Kate Young
1. Southern Sass and Killer Cravings
2. Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse
3. Southern Sass and a Battered Bride

The cookbook: Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia, by Joan E. Aller

July Theme at Devour Your TBR is also SF!! Yummy!
TBR: SF
The Mercy of Gods NG ARC
Alien Clay NG ARC ARC M
Red Lightning own
Rolling Thunder own
The Opiuchi Hotline own
Steel Beach own
The Golden Globe own
Irontown Blues own and NG ARC Mount TBR
And many, more: going to try to work on my personal "TBR PILE CHALLENGE," 22 SF titles I foolishly haven't got to yet, plus 7 John Varley titles (at least) and a short story collection of his.

06/28: PsychoActive: Transformative Horror Novellas Release June 28. SF/Horror.
I'm a Gay Wizard In the City of the Nightmare King SF/Fantasy. Pride.
Alien Clay. SF. NG ARC to 6%
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies. NG ARC Mount TBR and Libby Virtual.

06/29: Haunted Secrets: Tales of Frank Benedict ARC Release July 1 Scarestreet.com
Butterball Goes to the Beach Mount TBR
Camp Lanier NG ARC to 10%

06/30: Camp Lanier *****

07/01: Horror Movie. To p. 118. Libby Virtual and NG ARC.

07/02: Horror Movie
The God of the Woods Libby Virtual to p. 26
Angel of Vengeance NG ARC new to 3%

07/03: The God of the Woods to p. 86.
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine NG ARC new Release September [unexpectedly approved 😍] to 6% (928 pp.) So perfect, so engrossing! [So long a novel!]


07/04: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine to 11%!
INDEPENDENCE DAY: the date the Aliens arrive 🤔

07/05: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine to 21%

07/06: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine to 35%

07/07: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine to 47%!!
Cinderella Is Dead (NYPL: SimplyE) Virtual

Titles Read: PsychoActive: Transformative Horror Novellas Release June 28. SF/Horror.
I'm a Gay Wizard In the City of the Nightmare King SF/Fantasy. Pride.
Haunted Secrets: Tales of Frank Benedict
Butterball Goes to the Beach
Camp Lanier
Horror Movie
Cinderella Is Dead (NYPL: SimplyE)

Yay! Another readathon! I hope to read:

1. Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey
2. Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood
3. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed
4. Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
5. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #12) by Georges Simenon
6. The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman
7. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37) by Agatha Christie

YAY! I’ve decided to get my work for the weekend done today so I can actually relax a little on Sun and Mon! Readathon is perfect! Not sure what I’ll be reading, but I do need to make progress on .

Happy Celebrating! 🇨🇦🎂🎈💥

To begin, I’m
Reading more June is Audiobook Month
via library audios available and others as they come available
from library..
Some Charles Todd, Jacqueline Winspear.. mysteries

Starting off raining with high winds, so a great way to spend time indoors!

Elyse wrote: "We've got a long readathon starting today! To encompass Canada Day and Independence Day, one at the beginning of the week and one at the end of the week.

This readathon will go from today, June 28..."

I’m reading Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Read the first chapter of tonight.

Just starting

Yesterday's Progress:
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(33-40%)
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(0-18%)

writer... wrote: "Happy Celebrating! 🇨🇦🎂🎈💥

To begin, I’m
Reading more June is Audiobook Month
via library audios available and others as they come available
from library..
Some Charles Todd, Jacqueline Winspear....."

Finished

A Matter Of Justice Charles Todd

Currently reading

The Confession. Charles Todd


Pending

A Forgotten Place. Charles Todd

Yesterday's Progress:
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(40-72%)
(18-24%)
(0-100%)

I’ve done some reshuffling of my TBR for this Readathon, but now I think I’m set! Starting now!

Shelby wrote: "I’ve done some reshuffling of my TBR for this Readathon, but now I think I’m set! Starting now!"

That one was wild. 🤣 Can't wait to see what you think!

Yesterday's Progress:
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(72-100%)
(24-100%)
(0-100%)

We took Bastien to the local lake yesterday for the first time! He didn't love it but he didn't hate it. He just wasn't enthused. lol. It was cute. I see us going there a lot as he gets older. He'll be going to the ocean in a few weeks and that will be a LOT colder! Maine ocean! 🤣

I missed that this was happening but I'll jump in late! It's been a rainy start to summer break so I've been reading a lot anyway. :)

Progress from the 28th to the 30th:
Finished the audiobook of All Systems Red, which I'd been slowly reading for a while.
Made progress on Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, which I started a couple days earlier.
Started The Cricket War.

Elyse wrote: "Shelby wrote: "I’ve done some reshuffling of my TBR for this Readathon, but now I think I’m set! Starting now!"

That one was wild. 🤣 Can't wait to see ..."

...it sure is something!

I wanted a change of pace, so I started my reread of . Got most of the way through today too. I've got two more books I want to read for this readathon, but I have to wait til tomorrow to get them from the library.

Yesterday's Progress:
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(0-10%)

Bastien accompanied me to my dentist appointment yesterday and refused to listen to an audiobook, so metal music it was. 🤣 Then we met Daddy for lunch. He's such a good boy when we go out and about. Not a whole lot of napping yesterday though and last night was ROUGH. He never wakes up crying or cries in his sleep but he did several times last night.

Finished

The Confession

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be
Vulnerable Transforms the Way We
Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
+


Reading nearly complete

A Forgotten Place
Next Up

I finished one of the 4 books I'm hoping to get through this week: Southern Sass and Killer Cravings. I really enjoyed it!

Next up: Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse.

I’ve done some rearranging of my tbr. Planning to start today or tomorrow. 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

Shelby wrote: "I’ve done some rearranging of my tbr. Planning to start today or tomorrow. 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️"

Ooh Dread Nation! I thought I owned it but it appears I do not. Bummer. Enjoy!

Yesterday's Progress:
(27-100%)
(10-15%)

Blood Sugar was insannne!

Elyse wrote: "Shelby wrote: "I’ve done some rearranging of my tbr. Planning to start today or tomorrow. 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️"

Ooh Dread Nation! I thought I owned it but it appears I do no..."

Both books are on Everand! Really hopeful about this one!

Shelby wrote: "Both books are on Everand! Really hopeful about this one!..."

I think they're on Libby and/or Hoopla too!

Yesterday's Progress:
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Yesterday's Progress:
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Yesterday's Progress:
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(69-100%)
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Wasn't really jiving with Some Desperate Glory yesterday so I started Don't You Cry but was pretty bored by the beginning of it so I started the Aardvark book that was in my car when Bastien and I went to the park and he fell asleep. Needless to say I'm very intrigued by the content warnings in The Eyes Are the Best Part!

Progress from July 1-5:

Finished The Cricket War.
Finished Godly Heathens (audiobook), which I had started ages ago but had to wait to get back from the library.
Continued making progress on Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.
Started The Secret (The Fear Street Saga #2).
Started Weyward (audiobook).

Haven’t had reading time past few days, but I’m planning to finish my audiobooks over the weekend.

Karol wrote: "Hooray!

I've been reading some heavy stuff lately, so I think for the holiday I'll focus on cozy mysteries and a very readable cookbook. I just picked up all of these from my library:

Cozy Mysteries by Kate Young
1. Southern Sass and Killer Cravings
2. Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse
3. Southern Sass and a Battered Bride

The cookbook: Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia, by Joan E. Aller

"

Update: I've read two of the three cozy mysteries and they were fun . . . but I think I will pass on the third.

I LOVE the cookbook! I'm learning a lot about southern Appalachian heritage as well as finding some intriguing new recipes. Not sure I will have any reading time tomorrow, but I'm counting this read-a-thon as a success for me!

Yesterday's Progress:
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Yesterday's Progress:
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(37-66%)
(34-41%)

Wrap-Up
Finished
Read
Started

You are on fire!

Have been on the road and it is so hard to post to groups from my phone. I finished:

1. Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey
2. Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood
3. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed
4. Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
5. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #12) by Georges Simenon
6. The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman
7. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37) by Agatha Christie
8. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24) by Agatha Christie

Carol wrote: "Have been on the road and it is so hard to post to groups from my phone. I finished:

1. Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey
2. Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood
3. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed..."

Wow great readathon for you, Carol!