Currently Reading: 15 to 21 September 2019

Currently Reading

- The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (57%)

- Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens (31%)

- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (35%)

- Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (41%)

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OWLS Read Along

1: Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

2: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

3: Every Day by David Levithan 

4: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

5: The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

6: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

7: Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

8: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

9: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

10: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

11: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

12: Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

BooksandTea Group Book

13: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

NetGalley e-galleys

14: She's My Dad by Jonathan S. Williams 

15: The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi

16: Lion's Head Revisited by Jeffery Round

17: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

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I am making progress on my NaNoWriMo project for the year. A friend of mine posted an intriguing one-line premise and my mind latched on and refused to let go. She mentioned something about a penal colony on an island with an active volcano called Brimstone Gorge. No mention of literally anything else. No name for the island, no name for the mountain that is the volcano...I have built a corresponding story. I'm going to run with it and make up my own nonsense to go with it. The cover to the left here is my working cover/title. I don't think these will be the final versions, but I just had to add it and have it there. Hopefully this one actually makes it to final draft!

Totally just now looked at the number of channels I follow on Booktube...452. Yeah. I like to watch book channels. I still don't post on my own channel, though. I am considering it. I have to work up the courage before I do anything. I really have to get over my stage fright.

I'm slowly getting through The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup. There were a few things that make no sense to me. Like things that a competent police force would know and follow up on that this one seems to just not want to be involved in. I am assuming that's just a Danish thing that I don't understand? Here's hoping. Hess appears to be a lot deeper than people realize. It was claimed that he was one of the best detectives on the force before moving the Hague (and subsequently back to the Murder Squad). I like it so far, but I'm concerned with the way they are ignoring leads. 

Decided on a new TBR tactic for next year that involves me cataloging all of the books I own. Yes, all. That means print and digital books will all be put into a huge spreadsheet on my Google Sheets and then I will draw two numbers each month. I will use those numbers to correlate to four books (two from the print list and two from the digital list) with the fifth book of my month being a mood read. Right now I'm up to TK print books and TK digital books.