Majkia (Jean) - Backporch Birding Challenge - Final

A view from that backporch. That's the bayou and the bay.

I will be very happy to wave at 2020 in the rear-view mirror!





Books Read:


Pages Read:


ROOTs:


BigFatBooks( >500 pages):

Black Cap Chickadee - year round visitor.

93. Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon - DNF
94. Red Sister - Mark Lawrence - Series: Ancestors #1 - 🎵 (reader: Heather O'Neill ) - ROOT, Dice
95. Two Graves - Preston & Child - Series: Pendergast #12 - 🎵 (reader: Rene Auberjonois ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
96. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 🎵 (reader: George Wilson) - ROOT, SFFKIT
97. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter #10 - 🎵 (reader: Nadia May ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
98. The Darwin Affair - Tim Mason - DNF - ROOT
99. The Little Shop of Found Things - Paula Brakston - 🎵 (reader:Marissa Calin) - MysteryCAT, LibraryBook
100. Blood of Empire - Brian McClellan - Series: Powder Mage #6 - 🎵 (reader:John Telfer) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series, Dice
101. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - Did Not Finish - ROOT, MysteryKIT
102. Vicious - V.E. Schwab - Series: Villians #1 - 🎵 (reader: Noah Michael Levine) - ROOT, AlphaKIT

Great Blue Heron

They are here year long. I've seen one near the ground bird feeder, which was weird, and one did a mating dance up and down our dock for an hour at least one year.

103. The Last Odyssey - James Rollins - Series: Sigma Force #15 - 🎵 (reader:Christian Baskous) - ROOT, Focus Series
104. The Long Sunset - Jack McDevitt - Series: the Academy #7 - 🎵 (reader: Alyssa Bresnahan) - ROOT, Focus Series
105. Blind to the Bones - Series: Cooper and Fry #4 -ROOT, Focus Series, RandomCAT -
106. The Quantum Magician - Derek Kunsken - Series: Quantum Evolution #1 🎵 (reader:T Ryder Smith ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
107. In the Presence of the Enemy - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynly/Havers #8 - 🎵 (reader: Donata Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT
108. The Confession - Charles Todd - Series: Ian Rutledge #14 - ROOT, RandomCAT, Focus Series
109. Chains of Command - Marko Kloos - Series: Frontlines #4 - 🎵 (reader: Luke Daniels) - ROOT, SFFKIT
110. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter 311 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael) - ROOT

Bluebird. There is a house on the upper deck that you can't see in my picture. We watch them raise baby bluebirds most of the year.

111. The Broken Eye - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer #3 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, focus series
112. Medusa Uploaded - Emily Davenport - Series: Medusa Cycle #1 - ROOT
113. Murder on Black Swan Lane - Andrea Penrose - Series: Wexford #1 - 🎵 (reader:James Stewart ) - ROOT, MysteryKIT
114. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series: Salvation Sequnce #1 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) - ROOT, BFB
115. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter #12 - ROOT, BFB
116. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #2 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB117. Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #3 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

BingoDog Reads:





1. Book that's in a Legacy Library - Unnatural Death
2. Book written by an LT author Dispel Illusion
3. Book published in 1820 or 1920
4. Book published in the year of your birth
5. Book published under a pen name or anonymously - The Red Door
6. Book set in Asia - The Black Tides of Heaven
7. Mystery or true crime - Clouds of Witness
8. Book involving a real historical event (fiction or nonfiction) - To Kingdom Come
9. Book about books, bookstores, or libraries
10. Book with at least three letters of BINGO consecutively in order in the title (BIN, ING, NGO, GOB, OBI...the letters can cross words but must be in order and be consecutive) - Bring Up the Bodies
11. Red cover, or red is prominent on the cover - Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
12. Title contains a pun Heirs and Graces
13. Book about birth or death (childbearing, midwifery, human aging -- this is a combo of the "childbearing" and "human aging" suggestions)
14. Book with a proper name in the title - The Jennifer Morgue
15. Book published by a small press or self-published - Who the Hell is Tesla
16. Book published in 2020 - The Last Emperox
17. Epistolary novel or collection of letters
18. Book by a journalist or about journalism - The Killing Way
19. Book not set on Earth - The Bayern Agenda
20. Mythology or folklore - The City of Brass
21. Weird book title
22. Book with "library" or "thing" in the title or subtitle
23. Book with a periodic table element in the title
24. Book by a woman from a country other than the US/UK
25. Read a CAT

Throw The Dice (a random selection from my TBR, Next Up, or Other list of possible reads) and Planned Series (series I want to make a dent in - or finish - this year.



January: Age of Myth / The City of Brass / The Warded Man
February: Velocity Weapon / Cold Vengeance
March: Omega / An Accident of Stars/
April: The Black Prism/ The Jennifer Morgue
May: A Lonely Death / Sins of Empire
June:
July:
August: Wrath of Empire
September: Extremes
October: Blood of Empire
November:
December:

Focus Series



SFF
1 Lightbringer Series Brent Weeks SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 #1 - The Black Prism (re-read) #2 The Blinding Knife
2 Demon Cycle Peter V. Brett SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 #1 - The Warded Man (re-read) #2 The Desert Spear - ABANDONED due to crappy world-building
3. Craft Sequence Max Gladstone SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, #1 - Three Parts Dead
4. Legends of 1st Empire Michael J Sullivan SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 #1 - Age of Myth
5. Laundry Files Charles Stoss SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 #2 - The Jennifer Morgue
6. His Dark Materials reread Phillip Pullman SFF 1,2,3, 0, 0.5 #2 - The Subtle Knife
7. P.C. Grant Ben Aaronovitch SFF 6,7 #6 Lies Sleeping
✔ 8. Powder Mage Brian McClellan SFF 4,5,6 #4 Sins of Empire #5 Wrath of Empire #6 Blood of Empire
9. The Divine Cities Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett - SFF - 1, 2, 3, #1 - City of Stairs (re-read)
10. Repairman Jack - F. Paul Wilson - 1, 2, 3, 4, #2 - Legacies

Sci Fi
✔ 11 The Academy Jack McDevitt Sci fi 4, 5, 6, 7 #4 - Omega #5 Odyssey #6 Cauldron #7 The Long Sunset
12 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds Sci fi 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 #2 Chasm City
13 Greg Mandel Peter F. Hamilton Sci fi 1, 2, 3 #1 - Mindstar Rising
14 Confederation Tanya Huff Sci fi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, #1 - Valor's Choice
15 The Retrieval Artist K.K. Rusch Sci fi 1, 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. #1 - The Disappeared - #2 Extremes #3
✔ 14 Heris Serrano Elizabeth Moon Sci Fi 6,7 - #6 Change of Command #7 Against the Odds
16 The Lost Fleet Jack Campbell Sci Fi 2,3,4,5,6 - #2 The Lost Fleet: Fearless #3 The Lost Fleet: Courageous
17. Saga Of Seven Suns - Kevin J. Anderson - 1,2,3,4,5, - #1 Hidden Empire #3 A Forest of Stars

Mystery/Thriller

17 Ian Rutledge Charles Todd Period mystery 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, #12 - The Red Door , - #13 - A Lonely Death #14 - The Confession
18 Dept Q Jussi Adler-Olsen Contemp mystery 7, 8 #7 - The Scarred Woman
19 Seb St Cyr C.S. Harris Period mystery 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 #10 - Who Buries the Dead - #11 - When Falcons Fall
✔ 20 Sigma Force James Rollins thriller 13, 14 #13 - The Demon Crown , #14 - Crucible, #15 The Last Odyssey
21 Pendergast Preston/Child thriller 12, 13, 14, 15, #11 - Cold Vengeance #12 Two Graves
22 Flavia Alan Bradley Period mystery 9, 10 #9 - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
23 Gamache Louise Penny mystery 10, 11, 12 #10 - The Long Way Home
24 Cooper & Fry Stephen Booth mystery 3,4,5 - #3 - Blood on the Tongue #4 Blind to the Bones

BFB reads:

Books >500 pages for the BFB Challenge here on LT.



1. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson - 815 pages
2. Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear - 512 pages
3. City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty - 544 pages
4. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - 560 pages
5. Velocity Weapon - Megan O'keefe - 544 pages
6. The Serrano Succession - Elizabeth Moon - 802 pages
7. Foundryside - Robert J. Bennett - pages 512
8. Omega - Jack McDevitt - pages 512
9. European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman - Theodora Goss - 736 pages
10. The Black Prism - Brent Weekes - 540 pages
11. The Demon Crown - James Rollins - pages 672 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - ROOT, Focus Series, BFB
12. Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds - pages 640 - 🎵 (reader: Clair Corbett ) - ROOT, BFB, SFFKIT
13. Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 624 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodka ) - ROOT, Focus Series, Dice, BFB
14. Middlegame - Seanan McGuire - pages 528
15. the Lake House - Kate Morton - pages 512
16. Kraken - China Mieville - pages 528
17. Crucible: A Thriller - James Rollins - pages 656 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - ROOT, Focus Series, BFB
18. The Ruin of Kings - Jenn Lyons - Chorus of Dragons #1 - pages 650 - 🎵 (reader: ) - AlphaKIT, BFB
19. Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds - pages 704 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee )
20. Wrath of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 656 - Series: Gods of Powder #5 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodska )ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB, Dice
21. Hidden Empire
22. A Forest of Stars
23. Playing for the Ashes
24. Unconquerable Sun
25. The Blinding Knife
26. Blood of Empire
27. The Quantum Magician
28. In the Presence of the Enemy
29. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton
30. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton
31. Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton

Reading Through Time Reads


1. February - Clouds of Witness - crime/mystery
2. July - The Killing Way - Arthurian

Library Books Read/Listened To



1. February - Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
2. March - Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
3. July - Crucible : A Thriller - James Rollins

Cardinal. With us year round.

1. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson 🎵 (reader: Michael Kramer) Series: Mistborn #2 pages: 815 - ROOT, BFB, SFFKIT
2. The Bayern Agenda - Dan Moren - Pages: 384 -Series: The Galactic Cold War #1 -ROOT, SFFKIT - ROOT from 2019
3. Dispel Illusion - Mark Lawrence - Impossible Times #3 - 🎵 (reader: Matthew Throw) - pages 234
4. Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #1 - 🎵 (reader: Roe Kindall - pages 224 - ROOT, BingoDog
5. Age of Myth - Micheal J. Sullivan - Series: Legends #1 - 🎵 (reader: Tim Gerard Reynolds - pages 432 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, Focus Series
6. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville - pages 498 - ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT
7. Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear - Series: White Space #1 - 🎵 (reader: Nneka Okoye) - pages 512 - BFB, ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT
8. The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty - pages 544 - 🎵 (reader: Soneela Nankani) - BFB, ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT, Dice
9. Deep Secret - Diana Wynn Jones - pages 384 - ROOT, 75rs TIOLI
10. The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett - pages 480 - 🎵 (reader:Peter Bradbury) - ROOT, SFFKIT, Focus Series, Dice
11. The Tomb - F. Paul Wilson - pages 448 🎵 (reader: Joe Barrett) - ROOT, SFFKIT, ScaredyKIT



Brown Headed Nuthatch, one of my favorite birds. With us all year long.

12. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - 🎵 (reader: Simon Slater ) - pages 560 - BFB, BingoDOG, group read
13. Finders - Melissa Scott - pages 412 - AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, ROOT
14. Clouds of Witness - Doroth L Sayers - 🎵 (reader: Ian Carmichael ) - pages 230 -RTT, ROOT, BingoDog
15. The Red Door - Charles Todd - pages 368 - RTT, ROOT, BingoDOG
16. Velocity Weapon - Megan O'Keefe - pages 544 - 🎵 (reader: Joe Jameson) - BFB, ROOT, Dice
17. Cold Vengeance- Preston/Child - pages 457 - 🎵 (reader: Rene Auberjonois) - ROOT, Focus Series, ScaredyKIT



Blue Jay - year long visitor to our feeders.

18. The Serrano Succession - Elizabeth Moon - Pages: 802 - Last of the Serrano series - ROOT, SFFKIT, BFB, Focus Series
19. Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel - pages 432 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) Series: Wolf Hall #2 - Group Read
20. Foundryside - Robert J. Bennett - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader: Tara Sands) - ROOT, BFB, SffKIT
21. Omega - Jack McDevitt - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader:Karen Hvram) - ROOT, BFB, SffKIT, focus series
22. Who Buries the Dead - C.S. Harris - pages 384 - 🎵 (reader:Davinia Porter) - ROOT, focus series, AlphaKIT
23. Wicked Autumn - G.M. Malliet - pages 320 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT
24. European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman - Theodora Goss - pages 736 - 🎵 (reader:Kate Reading ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, TravelKIt, SFFKIT
25. Unnatural Death - DorothyL. Sayers - pages 736 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT, MysteryKIT, group read
26. The Ruin - Dervla McTiernan - pages 400 - 🎵 (reader:Aoife McMahon ) - ROOT

Goldfinch. I'm cheating a little bit here. We only see the Goldfinches during winter - generally, January through March. And they are wearing their dull colors then, and begin changing not long before they leave us.

27. The Black Prism - Brent Weeks - pages 540 - 🎵 (reader:Simon Vance) - ROOT, Dice, Focus Series, BFB
28. Down Among the Dead - K.B. Wagers - Farian Wars #2 - ROOT
29. The Spaceship Next Door - Gene Doucette - pages 368 - 🎵 (reader: Steve Carlson) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
30. The Witch Who Came In From the Cold - Multiple authors - Season 1 - pages 429 - 🎵 (reader: cast) - ROOT, MysteryKIT
31. Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns - pages 448 - 🎵 (reader: Mia Barron) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
32. The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi - pages 336 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
33. The Consuming Fire - John Scalzi - pages 320 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
34. The Last Emperox - John Scalzi - pages 330 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
35. The Weight of the Evidence - Michael Innes - pages 243 - 🎵 (reader: Matt Addis) - ROOT,Dice
36. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir - pages 448 - 🎵 (reader: Moira Quirke) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
37. The Demon Crown - James Rollins - pages 672 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - ROOT, Focus Series, BFB
38. Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross - pages 401 - ROOT, BingoDOG, Dice, Focus Series, AlphaKIT
39. Odyssey - Jack McDevitt - pages 432 - ROOT, Focus Series
40. The Darwin Elevator - Jason M. Hough - pages 496 - ROOT



Grebe. A waterfowl who visits us mainly Fall through early Spring.

41. The Time Traders - Andre Norton - pages 179 - ROOT
42. Revenger - Alastair Reynolds - pages 448 -🎵 (reader: Clair Corbett )- ROOT, SFFKIT, RandomCAT
43. Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds - pages 448 - 🎵 (reader: Clair Corbett ) - ROOT, SFFKIT, RandomCAT
44. A Lonely Death - Charles Todd - pages 348 - ROOT, Focus Series, AlphaKIT, Dice
45. Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds - pages 640 - 🎵 (reader: Clair Corbett ) - ROOT, BFB, SFFKIT
46. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 256 - 🎵 (reader: Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT, RandomCAT, MysteryKIT
47. Legacies - F. Paul Wilson - pages 450 - Repairman Jack #2 - 🎵 (reader: Christopher Price ) - ROOT, Focus Series, AlphaKIT
48. The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett - pages read: 450 about - ABANDONED - DNF
49. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday - Saad Z. Hossain - Pages 176 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
50. Network Effect - Martha Wells - pages 352 - 🎵 (reader: Kevin R. Free ) - ROOT, SFFKIT
51. To Kingdom Come - Will Thomas - pages 290 - ROOT
52. Lady Takes the Case - Eliza Casey - pages 304 - ROOT, AlphaKIT
53. Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 624 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodka ) - ROOT, Focus Series, Dice, BFB
54. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett - pages 288 - Discworld #6 - 🎵 (reader: Celia Imrie ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT, SFFKIT
55. The City in the Middle of the Night - C.J. Anders - pages 368 - ROOT



Hummingbird. Ruby throated and brown headed visit us. They generally leave late October and return in Spring.

56. The Disappeared - K.K. Rusch - pages 366 - 🎵 (reader: Jay Snyder ) - ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
57. Middlegame - Seanan McGuire - pages 528 - 🎵 (reader: Amber Benson ) - ROOT, BFB
58. Blood on the Tongue - Stephen Booth - pages 401 - ROOT, Focus Series, MysteryKIT
59. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson - pages 432 - 🎵 (reader:R.C. Bray ) -ROOT, SFFKIT
60. Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 252 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT
61. Kraken - China Mieville - pages 528 - 🎵 (reader:John Lee ) -ROOT, AlphaKIT, ScaredyKIT, BFB
62. Killing Gravity - Corey J. White - pages 176 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
63. The Lake House - Kate Morton - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader: Caroline Lee ) -ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT, BFB
64. Where the Hell is Tesla? - Rob Dircks - pages 396 - 🎵 (reader: Rob Dircks ) -ROOT
65. Edinburgh Twilight - Carol Lawrence - pages 446 - 🎵 (reader: Napoleon Ryan ) -ROOT, MysteryCAT

Kingfisher. A sea bird who hangs around year round. He makes a lot of noise, the little devil.

66. Crucible: A Thriller - James Rollins - pages 656 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - AlphaKIT, Focus Series, BFB
67. The Black Tides of Heaven - J. Y. Yang - pages 238 - ROOT
68. The Lost Fleet: Fearless - Jack Campbell - Pages 304 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rummell ) - AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, Focus Series
69. The Ruin of Kings - Jenn Lyons - Chorus of Dragons #1 - pages 650 - 🎵 (reader: ) - AlphaKIT, BFB,
70. The Killing Way - Tony Hays - pages 272 - ROOT, RTT Quarterly, MysteryKIT
71. Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds - pages 704 - ROOT, MysteryKIT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT , 🎵 (reader: John Lee )
72. Cauldron - Jack McDevitt - pages 368 - 🎵 (reader:Karen Hvram) - ROOT, SffKIT, focus series



Pelican. We see more of them in winter, as in spring and summer they stay more toward the beach areas. But winter brings bait fish into the bayou so we see them more often then.

73. Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 292 - Series: Lord Peter #7
74. A Pale Light in the Black - K.B. Wagers - pages 432 - Series NeoG #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT
75. Heirs and Graces - Rhys Bowen - pages 304 - Series: Her Royal Spyness #7 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT, BingoDog
76. Aftershocks - Marko Kloos- pages 276 - Series: Palladium Wars #1 - ROOT
77. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire - pages 176 - Series: Wayward Children #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT
78. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - pages 480 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, ScaredyKIT
79. Wrath of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 656 - Series: Gods of Powder #5 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodska )ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB, Dice
80. Have his Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 448 - Series: Lord Peter #8 - ROOT, MysteryKIT
81. The Hidden Empire - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell)ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB
82. . A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell) - ROOT, BFB
83. Valor's Choice - Tanya Huff - Series: Confederation #1 - pages 409 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, SFFKIT



House Finch, and Raspberry Finches stay with us year round.

September
84. Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynley 37 - 🎵 (reader: Donada Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT
85. Age of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - Series: Legends #2 - 🎵 (reader: Tim Gerard Reynolds ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
86. Unconquerable Sun - Kate Elliot - Series: Sun Chronicles #1 - 🎵 (reader: Natalie Naudus ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT
87. Embers of War - Garth Powell - Series: Embers of War #1 - 🎵 (reader: multiple ) - AlphaKIT
88. Extremes - K.K. Rusch - Series: Retrieval Artist #2 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, Dice
89. The Blinding Knife - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer 2 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series
90. Lines of Departure - Marko Kloos - Series: Frontlines #2 - 🎵 (reader: Luke Daniels) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
91. The Lake District Murder - John Bude - Series: Meredith #1 - ROOT, MysteryKIt
92. Angles of Attack - Markos Kloos - Series: Frontlines #3 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

Happy new thread, Jean! How are you getting on with cleaning up the damage?

Happy New Thread! Love the view at the top. How lucky you are to live there (storms and all)

>13 dudes22: thanks!

>12 MissWatson: Thank you for asking. As of yesterday, our yard is now back to normal. Of course there are mounds of hurricane debris out on the streets yet to be picked up, but at least the yard and the dock are now usable again. We are so fortunate that the house is higher up. Others were flooded out.

Happy New Thread!

>14 majkia: That is good news. Enjoy!

Happy new thread and I'm glad things are a bit back to normal.

Happy new thread! Glad to hear that things are getting back to normal & you didn't get any major storm damage to your house - fingers crossed that no more hurricanes come your way this year! It has been a crazy hurricane season...

Joining you in waving to 2020 from the rearview mirror! Happy new thread :)

So.. yet one more hurricane in the Gulf heading toward us. Hopefully it will stay far enough to our west to not be a big problem.

100. Blood of Empire - Brian McClellan - Series: Powder Mage #6 - 🎵 (reader:John Telfer) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series, Dice

Excellent series. Great world-building, complex characters you grow to care about. I especially loved Michail and Mad Ben Sykes.

101. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - Did Not Finish - ROOT, MysteryKIT

I wanted so badly to like this book. Alas, it was charming, but slow as molasses and spent too much time away from the mystery.

102. Vicious - V.E. Schwab - Series: Villians #1 - 🎵 (reader: Noah Michael Levine) - ROOT, AlphaKIT

Interesting. Well written. Not exactly what I expected, which is not a bad thing.

103. The Last Odyssey - James Rollins - Series: Sigma Force #15 - 🎵 (reader:Christian Baskous) - ROOT, Focus Series

Excellent series.

>22 majkia: I agree, it was a so-so cultural read interrupted by a "mystery", not so well focused on either.

104. The Long Sunset - Jack McDevitt - Series: the Academy #7 - 🎵 (reader: Alyssa Bresnahan) - ROOT, Focus Series

I'm now caught up on this series, and still loving it.

105 Blind to the Bones - Stephen Booth ; Series: Cooper and Fry #4

I really enjoy this series. Lots of attention to the surroundings, the 'feel' of the place, the people and the culture. Good mysteries too.

106. The Quantum Magician - Derek Kunsken - Series: Quantum Evolution #1 🎵 (reader:T Ryder Smith ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

Very weird book. Okay but hard to follow, I thought. Maybe just the narrator.

107. In the Presence of the Enemy - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynly/Havers #8 - 🎵 (reader: Donata Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT , Focus Series

Complex, hard to see the twists, well done as usual.

108. The Confession - Charles Todd - Series: Ian Rutledge #14 - ROOT, RandomCAT, Focus Series

Excellent entry to an excellent series.

>31 majkia: I've heard good things about that series. Since I just finished a series, I will put this on my list to read next month.

>32 Tess_W: Hope you find them as enjoyable as I do.

109. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter 311 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael) - ROOT

One of my favorite Wimseys.

>34 majkia: That's one of my favorite Wimseys as well :)

111. The Broken Eye - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer #3 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, focus series
I'm really enjoying this series. Lots of surprises, twists and turns.

112. Medusa Uploaded - Emily Davenport Series: The Medusa Cycle #1 - ROOT

Oichi is a 'worn' on a generation ship. But she's not continent with that, and is determined to extract justice following the death of her parents on a sister ship. And, boy, does she manage to find a way to change the dynamics and power structure.

Intriguing and fascinating. Great characterization and a plot that pulls you forward.

So.... Apparently my head is in 2021 because I've tried to listen to two audiobooks that couldn't hold my attention. I'm falling back on a tried and true book, that I've read (listened to) before and what to re-read as I finish up the trilogy.

A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy was disappointment 1. I just couldn't get into it, although I really enjoyed book 1.
Second dud was The Future of Another Timeline. I just couldn't find interest in teenage angst which kept turning up in the book.

Ah well. Hopefully I will listen and enjoy Salvation and it's sequels.

>38 majkia: The same has happened to me. The last audio I listened to, I had to restart about 5-6 times because I could not focus!

>38 majkia: That has happened to me too - generally a combination of focus (due to whatever distraction) and lack of interest in the book in question.

And wishing you happy holidays!

114. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series: Salvation Sequnce #1 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) - ROOT, BFB

Re-reading the first of the trilogy so I can finish the series up. Excellent sci fi, , as always is the case for Hamilton.

I got some great books from my Santa!

The Lost Man - Jane Harper
The Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
The Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor.

Taylor is new to me, as is Claire North.

Thank you Santa and Thank you SantaThing Elves!

Congrats!

Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas, Jean.

I hope you get some of those at least, Jean, as we all look forward to a better 2021.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas and wishing you the best 2021.

Thanks >43 MissWatson:! Also >44 DeltaQueen50: >45 PaulCranswick: >46 Kristelh: I hope you all had a fabulous holiday in the midst of this madness that is the world at the moment. Hopefully, things will get better in the new year.

116. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #2 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

Second in the Salvation Sequence, wherein humans, and other aliens, are being hunted by one species who has the means to enslave and 'save' them all. The problem is, it's the kind of 'saving' that they object to.

Very Hamiltonian. Complex societal developments along side tech and mental ones. The Plot is simple. The Question is whether or not Humans and others can find a way to defeat the invading species.

117. Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #3 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

Last of the Salvation Sequence. Nice wrap up with surprises and twists and turns. Societal development, as usual, with Hamilton, just as important as tech advances. Massive time scales and wild and wide open imaginative future worlds.

I'm now officially moving to my new 2021 thread. I'm still reading Intervention but won't get it finished before the new year.

Happy New Year everyone, and lets keep fingers crossed that 2020's dystopia will be well and truly behind us very soon!

>42 majkia: Ooh, Santa was good to you. I've added Ashes of London to my wishlist.

Happy New Year! See you over at the 2021 thread.

Happy New Year, see you in 2021.

New thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/325431