{Sunday Post} — Enemy Contact, Longarm, and Unladylike Lessons In Love

The Caffeinated Book Reviewer's Kimberly hosts a weekly meme called "The Sunday Post"! 

* Weekly Tidbits * 

• The Kansas City Royals finally broke their seven-game losing streak by beating the Angels 11-8 last night.

What Am I Currently Reading? 

I'm taking a break from ARCs and will instead read the three library books I checked out on Wednesday. Currently, I'm on page 116 in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Bloodletter by K.W. Jeter. According to the library's online card catalog, they don't carry Star Trek books, even though I randomly came across Bloodletter in the paperback section. I also checked out Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnohoff (no connection to the film of the same name) and Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead by Steve Perry.

Recent Reviews

Monster
★★★½✰

These Deadly Words
★★★★✰

What's in the Mail?

AVON (Harper Collins Publishers) thought I wanted to review an ARC of Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray because they sent me a copy. I might read it sometime. Also, MIRA sent me My Heart Will Find You by Jude Deveraux, a book I had requested to review.

Garage Sale Finds

My town has a yearly "garage/yard sale event" every April. I seldom go to any of these sales, but they tend to have only what I consider "junk." But I only went to a select few this year because my mother wanted to go, and the ones we went to had nothing but junk, priced so high that they'd never sell any of it. Oddly, the only garage sale with books was on a nearby street from where I live, and everyone there, mostly elderly couples, was browsing the "book" table. The books were 50 cents for a paperback and a dollar for a hardback. There was an odd mixture of YA fantasies, the Twilight Saga, James Patterson thrillers, and a slew of books by two authors I've been collecting: David Baldacci and Michael Connelly. I ended up spending $8 total on ten paperbacks and three hardbacks. 

The hardbacks included Michael Connelly's The Narrows and David Bladacci's The Target and Simple Genius. 

The paperbacks include Michael Connelly's The Black Echo, The Black Ice, and City of Bones, and David Baladacci's The Winner, The Hit, The Fallen, Zero Day, First Family, The Forgotten, and Hell's Corner. 

The only duplicate copy here is The Hit, but this one's in near-mint condition compared to the one I got from the thrift store. So basically, I'm replacing my old one with a better copy.  

The Narrows might sound familiar to some of you because I bought it a while ago via a Kindle sale. Now I have a physical copy of it.

What's New on the Shelf?

On Friday, I went to a Dollar General in a county south of mine, a store I haven't been to in quite a while, and the book rack was loaded with paperbacks. And not just random titles—it was like someone had stocked titles specifically for me. For $3 each, I picked up: Tom Clancy's Net Force: Dark Web by Jerome Preisler; Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact by Mike Maden; Star Trek: Prometheus: Fire With Fire by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg; and Slide by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (a Hard Case Crime novel).

At a Family Dollar/Dollar Tree hybrid store, I picked up two books: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp by Greg Cox and The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams.

Somebody must've donated their entire Western collection because I found more Max Brand books at the thrift store. The titles are The Gun Tamer, Rogue Mustang, Wild Freedom, and Six-Gun Country. I also got two Longarm books by Tabor Evans: And the Whiskey Women and And the Six-Gun Senorita. 

 

Additionally, I found a "Witcher" book, The Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski.