My reading was NOT out of control in April, although I did still read quite a bit–sixteen books. But that’s because I’m me.<\/p>\n
This month still had a lot of re-reads, but that’s mostly because I found several series I’d been wanting to re-read available from Overdrive with a WV library card. (SCORE!)<\/p>\n
As for new books, I quite liked the newest Brunetti mystery by Donna Leon, Earthly Remains<\/a>. I don’t think this is a good book for someone not familiar with the series, but for a long-time reader of the series, I really enjoyed this book. I also finally read the fifth book of Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a>‘s Night Watch series–I still have to read the sixth and final book, but I wanted to mull over the fifth book before reading the last.<\/p>\n I finally got around to reading Ilona Andrews<\/a>‘s Magic Stars<\/em>, which is a lovely gift to long-time readers of the Kate Daniels series, but I’m not sure it’d be a good entrance for newbies.<\/p>\n Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n Guido Brunetti Peter & Rina Drecker by Faye Kellerman<\/a> Elvis Cole by Robert Crais<\/a> Fantasy, Urban<\/strong><\/p>\n Grey Wolf Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko<\/a> translated by Andrew Bromfield Audio Books<\/strong><\/p>\n Promised Land, Audible Edition<\/a> (1976\/1987) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard Now, onto the stats!<\/p>\n 14 ebooks & 2 audio books. 10 of those stories were re-reads, and seven of those books I own in multiple formats. (With the death of Shelfie, the number of ebook purchases when I already own the paper format is going to go down pretty solidly.)<\/p>\n Genre had 10 mysteries and 6 fantasies. <\/p>\n Gender sees male authors catching up for the year, with 11 male authors, 4 female authors, and one jointly-written book. That puts men up 44:39 for the year. That trend will probably hold for awhile, while I finish the Elvis Cole series, but I new Jane Yellowrock book did just come out, and that might shift what I want to read.<\/p>\n And those are the books of April!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My reading was NOT out of control in April, although I did still read quite a bit–sixteen books. But that’s because I’m me. This month still had a lot of re-reads, but that’s mostly because I found several series I’d been wanting to re-read available from Overdrive with a WV library card. (SCORE!) As for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3t1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Earthly Remains<\/a> (2017) Donna Leon<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)<\/p>\n
\n Grievous Sin<\/a> (1993), Sanctuary<\/a> (1994), Justice<\/a> (1995) <\/p>\n
\n Sunset Express<\/a> (1996), Indigo Slam<\/a> (1997), L.A. Requiem<\/a> (1999), The Last Detective<\/a> (2003) <\/p>\n
\n Magic Stars<\/a> (2015) Ilona Andrews<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)<\/p>\n
\n Night Watch<\/a> (1998\/2006), Day Watch<\/a> (2000\/2006), Twilight Watch<\/a> (2006\/2007), The Last Watch<\/a> (2009)
\n New Watch<\/a> (2012\/2013) (Rating: 8\/10)<\/p>\n
\n The Judas Goat, Audible Version<\/a> (1978\/1987) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard <\/p>\n