{Sunday Post} — Shadow State, The House by the Cemetery, and Wind in the Ashes

What Am I Reading? 

There was a slight change of plans from last week: I wasn't into the "horror" library loans, so I returned them. I read a few stories in Writers of the Future, Volume 40, and intend to finish this week. Also, I'll return to Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Witches tonight, tomorrow, or sometime soon. Then I'll move on to Brad Thor's Shadow of Doubt and Tom Clancy's Shadow State by M. P. Woodward; I received the latter from the publisher. 

Song of the Week

What's in the Mailbox?

While there were no other ARCs in the mail—except for Tom Clancy's Shadow State—I did get the paperback The Chuckwagon Trail by J.A. Johnstone from Amazon. It's the first book in a series; I already own book two, which I got free from the library. I ordered books 3-5—A Hill of Beans, Settling His Hash, and Biscuits and Gravy—from Hamilton Books. They're all hardbacks. Additionally, I also bought three other William W. Johnstone / J.A. Johnstone hardcovers— Frank, Morgan: The Last Gunfighter (Reprisal, Ghost Valley, and The Forbidden), The Jensen Dynasty (Smoke Jensen: The Beginning, Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man, and Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter), and The Jensens of Colorado (Those Jensen Boys, The Jensen Brand, and Heart of the Mountain Man). Each of these hardbacks has three novels in them.

What's New on the Bookshelf?

I went slightly crazy with the new paperback releases this week, buying four—The House by the Cemetery by Lisa Childs, Fort Buzzard by J.A. Johnstone, Some Die Young by J.A. Johnstone, and Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Fallout by Jeff Rovin.

I picked up three more 10-cent Westerns at the thrift store: The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour, The Key-Lock Man by Louis L'Amour, and The Murder Road by Arthur Moore, and one non-Western, Wind in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone.