Part travelogue, part history book, part personal history of the author, Philbrick (plus wife & dog) travels the route Washington took through New England and the southern states after being elected president. Interesting and educational, Philbrick is a fine narrator. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
1st book for #LittenListen @aperfectmjk
2nd book for #AVeryMerryReadathon @TheSpineView #WinterCosy @PuddleJumper #WrapItUpReadathon @keys_on_fire #Adventathon @ozma.of.oz

I glanced around my cottage at the thirty or so guests laughing and chatting, and grinned.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

My order from World of Books was 2 days late, an ominous foreshadowing for future holiday shipping, but better late than never.

#nevertoomanybooks #neverenoughshelves

I wish I liked this more than I did, but it was just too grimdark for me. I'm not squeamish about violence, but I found the casual attitude of the characters, as they were slitting throats, drowning people, torturing and raping, very off-putting. It's hard to root for anyone when everyone, to one degree or another, is a cold blooded killer. 2 💥💥

I didn't get as much reading done this #20in4 readathon as I had hoped. Too many days, after a long day of retail hell, I just wanted to come home and pass out. I did finish one audiobook and rack up double digit hours so I'm good with it.
@Andrew65

December is shaping up to be the Mother of months for readathons. I will be joining in for #LittenListen audioathon @aperfectmjk , #AVeryMerryReadathon @TheSpineView , #WinterCosy @PuddleJumper , and #WrapItUpReadathon @keys_on_fire . Add in @Andrew65 December readathon and #20in4 at the end of the month. Wheeeewwwww!! 🤯

While it seemed like every other Predator movie I've ever seen, it was okay to while a way a couple of hours. The characters were pretty generic, from the elite soldiers trained to hunt the alien Predator, to the wiley politician who wanted to use the alien's technology to enhance his own power and position. I did like that some of the story was told from the Predator's point of view, showing its own sense of honor. 3 💥💥💥

Kaleb sets down the girl's body, making a total of three bodies in the room.

Sounds like the beginning of a horror novel, but its not.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Since today is Black Friday, and I work retail, I knew I wouldn't get any reading done. So, I'm starting #20in4 readathon from the 27th - 30th. I hope to get at least 1 book finished and 20 hours read.
@Andrew65

Finished this this morning with a little audiowalking before it started raining. I thought it was going to be another Holmes wanna-be, but Max Carrados was his own unique character. I don't think it was necessary to remind readers in every story that Max was blind, and used his other refined senses to solve crimes. That part did get a bit too repetitive. 3 🔎🔎🔎 1/2

This is a very strange, but enjoyable book. Dick isn't really interested in plot, or linear storytelling, in his tale of a group of survivors in California after a nuclear war. Time and place jumps around, but the diverse characters makes the book worth reading. 4 💥💥💥💥

🍁 I'm fortunate to be off work Wednesday & Thursday so I plan to finish at least one book, plus do some audio walking (walk off some calories) and reading with football on mute.
🍗 I'm probably weird, but I love stuffing and cranberry sauce (not the canned jelly like stuff).
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday
Wanna play? @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie

Goals were mostly met for the #NovelNovember readathon
Finish Beloved Beast ✅
Finish Under The Whispering Door ✅
Finish Eat A Peach 31%
Start 2 More Books ✅
Read 30+ hours - fell about 5 hours short.
Finished 4 books total (3 audio, 1 ebook)

Thank you @Andrew65 for hosting another excellent readathon.

1. Dr. Bloodmoney (print) Eat A Peach (ebook) and The Tales of Max Carrados (audiobook).
2. Pumpkin Roll
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Coincidentally, the carnival arrived in Green Town on my birthday, October 24th.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Early in the bright sun-yellowed morning, Stuart McConchie swept the sidewalk before Modern TV Sales & Service, hearing the cars along Shattuck Avenue and the secretaries hurrying on high heels to their offices, all the stirrings and fine smells of a new week, a new time in which a good salesman could accomplish things.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I know this book is well loved on Litsy, but it's not the book for me. I gave it over 50 pages, and it still wasn't grabbing me, I was actively looking to read anything else instead of picking it up again. I'm sure it's a case of not the book but me.

Not Herbert's best work, the world building is first rate, but the characters are pretty static and one dimensional. Through 4 interconnecting stories, written in the 1950s, we follow the path of government agent Lewis Orn as he goes from lowly functionary to godhood. Lots of Herbert's usual tropes are involved including the psi-powered messiah like Paul from Dune. 3 💥💥💥
4th book for #NovelNovember @Andrew65

There aren't too many books I'd stay up until 2am, on a work week, to finish, but this was well worth it. It hits a lot of the same points as his previous novel, but at the same time its uniquely different and original. I already miss Hugo, Mei and Wallace. 4 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2
3rd book finished for #NovelNovember @Andrew65

Thank you @MatchlessMarie for hosting the #33By33 readathon. I almost made my goal of 25 hours reading, but I did finish 3 books, almost finished Under the Whispering Door (on the last chapter) and 27% of Eat A Peach.

I didn't make it to the 15 hours of reading I hoped for, but I did finish one book, so it wasn't a total failure.
Thank you @kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl for hosting the #AnyWayYouReadathon

The author is definitely a true believer, someone with an unshakeable belief in the existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti. I found most of the book interesting, but at times it delved off subject talking of ghosts, UFOs, extra-dimensional travelers, time travelers, parallel universes, moth-men and skin walkers. 3 👣👣👣
3rd book finished for #33By33 @MatchlessMarie
2nd book finished for #NovelNovember @Andrew65

I'd planned to concentrate on Klune's book today, but I found myself fascinated by this audiobook instead. It is an amazing story of the conservation movement, the different fractions and theories, the struggles to save different species and the evolving understanding that every species plays a part in the overall ecology of the planet. 5 🌟

1. Under The Whispering Door, Eat A Peach and Beloved Beasts: Fighting For Life in An Age of Extinction (audio)
2. We Could Be...Bowie and His Heroes
3. Travels With George/Nathaniel Philbrick, No One Goes Alone/Erik Larson, Cultish/Amanda Montell

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Preparing for my third of three marathons going on this weekend, good thing I'm off Saturday and Sunday.
Goals:
Finish Beloved Beasts
Finish Under The Whispering Door
Finish Eat A Peach
Start 2 more books
Read for 30+ hours

Good luck to everyone who's joining in the fun.
#NovelNovember @Andrew65

Popped into Goodwill this evening, and found these three goodies. Coincidentally, I almost bought On Target earlier in the day at BAM, but decided to wait. I guess the book gods wanted me to have it for a buck instead of paying 9.99 😁😁
#nevertoomanybooks #neverenoughshelves

Ready to start the 2nd readathon beginning this weekend. My goals are to read at least 15 hrs and finish 1 book. It will probably be the tagged book because I'm loving it so far, and I don't want to stop for another book.
#AnyWayYouReadathon @kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl

Patricia was crying.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Goodness knows I don't need to start another series, but I really enjoyed this adventure of Victorian London's "other"private investigator. Arrowood is the poor man's Sherlock Holmes, although he'd hate you for saying that. It's a solid mystery, starts as a simple missing person case, but branches out to a much wider conspiracy involving murder and mayhem. 4 ???? 1/2
1st book finished for the #33By33 readathon @MatchlessMarie

1. The Nightside of London, from Simon R. Green's Nightside series. Also ancient Greece if the mythological Gods existed.
2. I'm grateful I'm off the next 4 days, and I have 3 different readathons to participate in.
Thanks for the tag @DarkMina
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

This week will be a readathon marathon, with #33By33 #AnyWayYouReadathon and #NovelNovember all starting in the next couple of days. #33by33 starts Thursday, so my goal is to read at least 2 books and get 25 hours read. I'm reading Arrowood (print), Eat A Peach (ebook) and Beloved Beast (audiobook).
Happy Birthday @MatchlessMarie

Probably not the best book written about David Bowie's life, but it's still an amazing story. Bowie met just about everyone who was anyone, and had a major influence on not just music but also fashion, art and theater. Bowie come off as an amazing talent, but also a warm, funny, generous man, the ultimate chameleon who picked up different styles and ideas from others, and blended them all together to create his many musical personalities. 4 🌟

1. Arrowood (print), Eat A Peach (ebook) and We Could Be (audiobook)
2. Book journal, Litsy, Storygraph
3. Night Shift by Stephen King

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

After the serial killer book, I needed something light to make me laugh, and Doonesbury never fails to bring a smile to my face and a good chuckle. The former president (He Who Must Not Be Named) was an endless fount for satirical humor. 3 💥💥💥 1/2

True crime isn't usually my cup of tea, but I did find this very interesting. During the 1990, a serial killer, known as the Last Call Killer, was stalking gay men in NYC. The men's murdered and dismembered bodies were found in various parts of New York and New Jersey. I liked that the author made sure the reader knew not just the killer, but the lives of each of his known(its believed he may have killed dozens of other men during his vacations)⬇️

The very moment I walked in that morning, I could see the guvnor was in one of his tempers.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

This wasn't what I was expecting, but I mean that in a good way. Dave Grohl is an amazing artist and musician, but he's also an intelligent man and one heck of a narrator. I found Dave's story touching and heartwarming. He got to meet and jam with his musical heroes. How lucky can one man get? 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

1. The tagged book, I had it checked out from the school library so often I practically owned it.
2. Fall
3. My girlfriend finally got her covid vaccine.

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

Finished Deadman's Road
Finished The Gray Man
Finished How Y'all Doing?
Finished Death Overdue
Finished The Infinitive of Go
Finished Hardwired
Finished American Monsters
Total hours: 33:58:24

Thank you @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES for hosting the #ReadWithUs readathon.

Even though I've seen dozens of movies and TV shows with her characters, I've never read an Agatha Christie novel. I don't think this was the one to start with, I found it boring and tedious, with a very obvious conclusion. Maybe I should have started with a better known classic like Murder on the Orient Express. 2 ⭐⭐
3rd and final book for #20in4 readathon @Andrew65

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For those who don't know, Texas is a s**thole, full of intolerant assholes (in the government). If you look at this list, you will see a very obvious theme, since all the books deal with race, racism, Black Lives Matter, gender equality, women's rights and LGBTQ characters. Just another attempt by Gov. Abbott and his goons to force their alt right, white nationalist agenda down the throats of fellow Texans.

The perfect book for this time of year. Within these lectures is a discussion of the evolution of American horror tropes and monsters unique to America. I found the chapter on slasher movies of the 80's especially interesting, I've seen more than my share of those teenagers in danger flicks. 4 👹👹👹👹
7th book for #ReadWithUs (31:30:50) @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
2nd book for #20in4 (8:02:38) @Andrew65

Mrs. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

A cyberpunk classic. It's dark and gritty, full of hard edged sex and violence. The Earth is a wasteland after the orbital stations dropped asteroids on the major cities, leaving the survivors to scrape by anyway they can. Plenty of betrayal, crosses and double crosses, not very many sympathetic characters. 4💥💥💥💥
6th book for #ReadWithUs (28:08:05) @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
1st book for #20in4 (4:39:53) @Andrew65

A short but somewhat confusing novel dealing with teleportation, known as posting, and how it opens the world to infinite parallel universes. Some of the science was over my head, and at times the book was too much talking heads, but overall still an interesting story. It loses 1/2 a star for the non-ending ending, just an abrupt stop. 3 ⭐⭐⭐
5th book for #ReadWithUs @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Thank you @Andrew65 for hosting another #20in4 readathon. Since I'm working through the weekend, I think I opt for the 5 day alternative to make my 20 hours goal.

Good luck to everyone who is joining in the fun.

🎃 Almost finished The Infinitive of Go, will start Elephants Can Remember tonight, also Hardwired on audio.
🎃 Working through the weekend, 7 day vacation will be over 😭😭😭
🎃 I've had a nice vacation to relax and catch up on my reading.
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
Wanna play? @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie @Sharpeipup @Cuilin @ReadingFeedsTheSoul

1. I don't reread any books, but I do reread Poe's The Raven each Halloween night, then maybe a Poe short story like The Tattle-Tale Heart.
2. In the, going on, 6 years that I've lived in my apt, I've never had one trick-or-treater. I always buy a little candy, but end up taking it to work so it's not around the house for me to eat.
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday
Wanna play @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby

This was my first cozy mystery, and I enjoyed it. At first Carrie annoyed me, but she grew on me as a character, and the mystery was just twisty enough to keep my interest. I think I'll continue the series, I enjoyed the romantic (gasp!)possibilities of Carrie and the mysterious Dylan.
4th book for #ReadWithUs @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

I'm late with posting my #OutstandingOctober readathon results.
Finished Mostly Harmless
Finished Deadman's Road
Finished The Gray Man
Finished How Y'all Doing
Read Death Overdue 57%
Read Last Call 39%
Total hours 21:37:28

Thanks for hosting another fun readathon @Andrew65

Since yesterday was my 58th birthday, of course I had to add more books to my ever growing #tbrmountain. I have a feeling it's about time for another #bookbuyingdiet round before the start of 2022.

#nevertoomanybooks #neverenoughshelves