{Sunday Post} — Cold Trail, Survive the Night, and We Kept Her in the Cellar

Weekly Tidbits 

• This past week was hectic—my reading and blogging time was replaced with other things. I believe this coming week will be about the same, so going to have to put myself on a new schedule and stick to it. 

• I had to buy a new fan in September. Will the autumn weather hurry up and get here? I'm sick of this heat. 

• What the heck is wrong with the Kansas City Royals? They've lost seven games in a row, and their "Wild Card" spot is now in jeopardy if they don't win their final two series of the season. I know there are a few injuries, but good grief, at least try to get in a few runs per game. 

What Am I Reading? 

I had to change my reading agenda, so two other titles got read. I'm on chapter seventeen in Bill O'Reilly's Confronting the Presidents. I'm ready to begin reading The Hitchcock Hotel on my Kindle, and there's still a bookmark inside Tom Clancy's Shadow State. 

Once upon a time, I was good at speed-reading, and I hope I still have the ability because I have a lot of ARCs on my plate. On the backburner: Shadow of the Doubt, Ghost Soldier, The Madness, and William. A few other books aren't listed here—new titles are listed in this week's "What's in the Mailbox?".

Song of the Week

Recently Reviewed

Writers of the Future, Volume 40

★★★½✰

What's in the Mailbox?

There was lots of stuff in the mail: Cold Trail by Taylor Moore, Ruin Road by Lamar Giles, Not the Killing Kind by Maria Kelson, We Kept Her in the Cellar by W. R. Gorman, and the Despicable Me 4 Blu-ray.

What's New on the Bookshelf?

How many copies of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca do I now own? I found another hardback at a thrift store for twenty-five cents. Also, I picked up two paperbacks, The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware and John Adams by David McCullough.

New titles on my Kindle are Survive the Night by Riley Sager, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe, and The Tyranny of Pubic Discourse by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften.