Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Rock Paper Scissors, by Alice Feeney

Title: Rock Paper Scissors 
Author: Alice Feeney 
Borrowed from DC Public Library Audiobook 
Started: 3/30/2026
Finished: 3/31/3/2026

I didn't see the big twist in this one coming, but guessed most of the smaller twists.  Decent but didn't love this one.  

Monday, March 30, 2026

The Word is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz

Title: The Word is Murder 
Author: Anthony Horowitz 
Borrowed from DC Public Library Audiobook 
Started: 3/30/2026
Finished: 3/30/2026

A rare same day start & finish book.  Loved this one.  Was fooled at the start thinking it was non-fiction.   Embarrassing in hindsight but it is true.  

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Sentinel, by Mark Greaney

Title: Sentinel 
Author: Mark Greaney 
Borrowed from Queen Anne County Public Library Kindle edition 
Started: 3/25/2026
Finished: 3/29/2026

Book 2 of the Sean Duffy series.  Enjoyed this one like I did the previous.  

Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, by Peter Lovesey

Title: The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories 
Author: Peter Lovesey 
Borrowed from Audible 
Started: 3/24/2026
Finished: 3/26/2026

Very enjoyable collection of short stories with various narrators I like.  Most of the twists were easy to guess, but a few took me by surprise, and I liked all of these.  Loved a few.  

Monday, March 23, 2026

Rolling in the Deep, by Mira Grant

Title: Rolling in the Deep
Author: Mira Grant
Borrowed from Queen Anne County Public Library
Started: 3/21/2026
Finished: 3/23/2026

A decent mermaid horror novella in a roughly found footage style.  I liked this in novella form but when I earlier tried the full novel version of this (Into the Drowning Deep) I quit on it pretty early on.  Maybe I'll give it another shot.

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Wylding Hall, by Elizabeth Hand

Title: Wylding Hall 
Author: Elizabeth Hand 
Borrowed from Queen Anne County Public Library Audiobook 
Started: 3/19/2026
Finished: 3/20/2026

The start of 2026 is my re-reading extravaganza.  But I love this book.  It's not long, but the interview format, folk horror, and music bio is just too perfect.  

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

The Homemade God, by Rachel Joyce

Title: The Homemade God 
Author: Rachel Joyce 
Borrowed from Fairfax County Public Library Audiobook 
Started: 3/8/2026
Finished: 3/11/2026

Recommendation from my mom. I liked this one though it was frustrating at times, it kept me guessing as to where it was going.  

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Armored, by Mark Greaney

Title: Armored 
Author: Mark Greaney 
Borrowed from DC Public Library Kindle edition 
Started: 3/3/2026
Finished: 3/10/2026

Pretty entertaining military action thriller.  I like Greaneys other series and this is just as easy and fun.  

Mountain Main 2nd Prequel, by Keith C Blackmore

Title: Mountain Man 2nd Prequel
Author: Keith C Blackmore
Purchased from Audible
Started: 3/3/2026
Finished: 3/10/2026

The final (I'm pretty sure) MM book.  I liked this more than the previous prequel since Gus was his alcoholic awesome self, but there were too many call backs to the other books, little foreshadowing, etc.  I'm sure some folks love that and I get the appeal and reason, but a little too cute in some parts.

Monday, March 9, 2026

Holy Bible NIV

Title: Holy Bible NIV
Author: various, read by David Suchet 
Started: 2/23/2026
Finished: 3/9/2026
New Testament Only 

Well it took me months to get through HR old testament but the new testament flew by.  Of course I'd already read the NT via the Johnny Cash King James version.  This was the NIV read by Suchet. 

May have mentioned this in my Old Testament post but it took a while for Suchet to warm up to being an audiobook narrator.  Start of the old testament he wasn't speaking with much personality.  But after a while he got into it, started using inflections, tone, voice, and his narration better fit the individual stories. 

By the time he's narrating the new testament he's a seasoned professional which may be why this flew by more quickly.  

Monday, March 2, 2026

The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse, by PJ Fitzsimmons

Title: The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse
Author: PJ Fitzsimmons
Borrowed from Queen Anne County Public Library
Started: 3/1/2026
Finished: 3/2/2026

Anty Boisjoly book, charming and fun, if less stellar than previous entries in the series.

Sunday, March 1, 2026

The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine, by PJ Fitzsimmons

Title: The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine 
Author: PJ Fitzsimmons 
Borrowed from Queen Anne County Public Library Audiobook 
Started: 2/25/2026
Finished: 2/28/2026

I give up and have resigned myself to a reread of the entire Anty Boisjoly series.  Enjoy these too much.