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So I started the year off doing a monthly update of books that I have read, sometimes sharing my views on a book or just making a list. I do this every year, and every year, I seem to stop posting before the year is up. No, I don’t stop reading, I stop posting. This year was no different. Except it is…I didn’t stop. I just paused.

So here’s the list from the end of April until August. I’m still on track for my 100 book goal, so that’s a plus.

1. The Naming of the Dead -Ian Rankin (audio)

2. Hidden Depths – Ann Cleeves (audio)

3. Jupitar’s Bones – Faye Kellerman (audio)

4. The Seagull – Ann Cleeves (audio)

5. The Theory of Death – Faye Kellerman (audio)

6. The Heron’s Cry – Ann Cleeves (audio)

7. Dead Water – Ann Cleeves (audio)

8. Freehand – Helen Birch (book)

9. Blue Lightning – Ann Cleeves (audio)

10. Autopsy – Patricia Cornwell (audio)

11. Strip Jack – Ian Rankin (audio)

12. The Creative Act – Rick Rubin (audio)

13. Silent Voices – Ann Cleeves (audio)

14. Scenes from My Life – Michael K. Williams (audio)

15. Blood on Snow – Jo Nesbo (audio)

16. This Sweet Sickness – Patricia Highsmith (audio)

17. The Glass Room – Ann Cleeves (audio)

18. Resurrection Man – Ian Rankin (audio)

19. Desert Star – Michael Connelly (audio)

20. The Complaints – Ian Rankin (audio)

21. A Question of Blood – Ian Rankin (audio)

22. The Impossible Dead – Ian Rankin (audio)

23. The Darkest Evening – Ann Cleeves (audio)

24. Thin Air – Ann Cleeves (audio)

25. The Moth Catcher – Ann Cleeves (audio)

26. I’d Rather Be Reading – Ann Bogel (audio)

27. One Police Plaza – William J. Caunitz (audio)

So now my list is up to date. So far, I’ve read 59 books. I am on a British mystery kick. I’m not sure what that’s about, but I’m enjoying it. As I type, I am up to book 60, 61, and 62. I find that I read more than one book at a time. I’m not sure if that’s because most of my reading is done with audiobooks. I listen to more than one book at a time and switch constantly between them. I am also getting back into my graphic novels, as you will see in the next book update. Until then, Happy Reading.

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1. Batman – Detective Comics – Volume 1: Rise of the Batman (graphic novel)

2. James Patterson The Stories of My Life by James Patterson (audio)

3. Border Crossings – a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by EmmaFick (book)

4. Cold, Cold Bones – Kathy Reichs (audio)

5. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (audio)

6. Cat and Mouse by James Patterson (audio)

7. Things To Look Forward To by Sophie Blackall (book)

8. Rather be the devil – Ian Rankin (audio)

9. Pop Goes the Weasel- James Patterson ( audio)

I really enjoyed Border Crossings because it reminded me of a mix between an art journal and a travel guide. The drawings were a wonderful visual addition to the descriptive writing. I am definitely on the look out for more books like this.

I’ve read 9 books for the month of March. One book was a revisit of a book from my junior high school days, Go Ask Alice. Another was a graphic novel, which I seem to be reading more of these days. The graphic novel happens to be by one of my favorite writers, Jim Butcher. The list is as follows:

1. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (audiobook)

2. River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan (audiobook)

3. American God’s by Neil Gaiman (audiobook)

4. Riverman by Ben McGrath (audiobook)

5. Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (audiobook)

6. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Butcher (graphic novel)

7. The Iceman by Anthony Bruno (audiobook)

8. The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs (audiobook)

9. Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs (audiobook)

I used to be addicted to Kathy Reichs books when they were first published, but when the show Bones came out, I cast them aside for television. I’m back and loving them once again. The Book River Woman, River Demon, was a very interesting book. It was the March book club book from the New York public library. It’s not my normal type of book, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.