The Sunday Post

 

 Happy Sunday!

Welcome to my Sunday Post, a weekly blog news meme hosted by caffeinatedbookreviewer. My blog is on the small side, so I decided I'll only be posting the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me.

The month of February has been eventful. I've had some wild weather in my neck of the woods: real feel listed as 11 degrees one day, switching to 60s and endless rain, and then to dry windstorms that brought trees down. I successfully managed not to freeze, drown, or fly. I became an aunt to a beautiful niece, who just narrowly escaped being a leap year baby, and I'm pretty excited about her arrival. My Kindle Touch was finally lost to the ravages of time but was replaced swiftly with a Kindle Paperwhite. I also reviewed the following stories:

• Lethal White by Robet Galbraith
• Training Strategies for Dressage Riders by Charles de Kunffy
• What Feasts at Night by T.Kingfisher (just released!)
• Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

I originally planned to review The Conference of Birds in February, but there was a scheduling change when I received an ARC of What Feasts at Night by T.Kingfisher. I tend to push ARCs to the head of the list out of respect for the authors and publishers who generously make those available. So TCoB will be the first review of March.

This month I plan to review:

• The Conference of Birds by Ransom Riggs
• Salem's Cipher by Jess Lourey (3/26/24 release date)
• The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

But not necessarily in that order.

Salem's Cipher is to be released on 3/26/24 and, although I haven't gotten very far into it yet, it hooks the reader immediately with a gruesome murder in an apartment building where a tenant five pages earlier is seen unlocking and relocking a door with 4 deadbolts. Four deadbolts? If you need four deadbolts to secure your door, on top of the original lock that came installed on the knob, you might be living in a bad neighborhood. But maybe that's just me.

I've just re-read Call of the Wild by Jack London because it will be my C-entry for April's A-Z Challenge should I participate, which is looking likely. I've also added to the list of re-reads Eragon by Christopher Paolini which gives me an entry for E. I want to read his newest book Murtagh, but it has been so long since I've read the original series, I wanted to refresh my memory. That just leaves me looking for a book for Q and reading it before April.

And I think that's everything.

What's new with you?