The Sentence is Death,
by Anthony Horowitz
HarperCollins
05/28/2019
Mystery/Detective
384 pages
Goodreads
A new book by Horowitz is always a treat. Especially having read The Word is Murder, with its unique inserting of the real life author in the narrative fabric of the mystery, I couldn’t wait to see what would happen to Anthony and Hawthorne in volume 2: The Sentence is Death.
A lot has been going on these last three months, and I haven’t done much blogging. I plan to be more active again, so I’ll start with this mega three months recap, as last one was for April!!
On another level, after 14 months or work, I have finally decided to stop translating for Orthodoxie.com/en. It was fascinating work, and gave me the opportunity to keep up with Orthodox news throughout the world, but they have no fund, and I was getting only a few dollars per hour. As I needed many hours to translate every day, I also had less time to teach French, so even less income coming!
Until next major translation project, I plan to do more marketing for France Book Tours – if you know new bloggers who are looking to review books, tell them about it. I’m going to have new titles, with even more incentive! The general sign up page is here.
I would also like to dedicate more time to preparing my next book. A third of it is ready. The book was commissioned by a publisher, it will be another anthology (I published my first one eleven years ago!), but this time from Orthodox authors, and for each day of the year.
Before going into books, I’d like to share this awesome service I found through @EmAndHerBooks. You can post all your links in one place. See my result. Really cool!
Enough chatting, let’s go back to my reading.
I’ll give the numbers per month, for my year stats, and then the list by genre for the all this period.
So here is what I read in May:
5 books:
4 in print
= with 1,254 pages, an average of 40 pages/day
1 in audio
= 12H29, an average of 24 minutes
In June:
8 books:
4 in print
= with 1,254 pages, (yes! the exact same number of pages as in May!),
an average of 41 pages/day
4 in audio!
= 38H50, an average of 1H17!
And in July:
6 books:
5 in print
= with 1,521 pages, an average of 49 pages/day
1 in audio
= 6H49, an average of 13 minutes
So that’s a total of 19 books, in the following genres:
12 in mystery:
3 in nonfiction:
2 in literary fiction:
1 in science fiction:
1 in dystopia:
I have a few reviews almost ready to go, so I should be able to post them these coming weeks.
Obviously, with so many great titles, it’s really hard to pick a couple of favorites, so I’ll focus on great books by new to me authors.
Classics Club: 45/50 (until end of 2020)
2019 Calendar of Crime Challenge 15/12?
Where Are You Reading?: 21/50 – to be finished in ??
Total of books read in 2019 = 52/100
Number of books added to my TBR this past month= 11
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#boutofbooks
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized
by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple.
It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th
and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in.
Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional.
For all Bout of Books 25 information and updates,
be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team
Here is what I read on DAY 6:
Total for Day 6: 123 pages
TOTAL so far: 523/805 pages
I did the Instagram challenge on the author I read the most. Can you guess who it is?
Here is what I read on DAY 5:
Total for Day 5: 28 pages
TOTAL so far: 400/805 pages
As predicted the day before, I wasn’t able to read much: my reading time is in the evening, and we had our book club meeting. But we had a great time, sharing about amazing books. I also organized a book Jeopardy, and gave a bag with 4 books to the top three! I enter lots of giveaways, and then give them away to my book club members. They love it!
I didn’t do any challenge, by lack of time.
Here is what I read on DAY 4:
Total for Day 4: 103 pages
TOTAL so far: 372 /805 pages
And I did the Instagram challenge, with an incredible author.
I had a lot of audiobook time with house chores, cleaning, and preparing some appetizers for today’s book club anniversary – which means I will speak a lot about books tonight, but won’t have much reading time!!
Here is what I read on DAY 3:
Total for Day 3: 90 pages
TOTAL so far: 269 /805 pages
And I did the Instagram challenge, with a cover of a recent book I like a lot (both the cover AND the book!).
The emoji challenge was very tempting, but I wasn’t too sure how to sum it up this way.
Here is what I read on DAY 2:
Total for Day 2: 10 pages
TOTAL so far: 179 /805 pages
Hmm, amazing how two days can differ, from 169 to 10 pages!
The explanation is simple: we got together with friends in the evening, my only possible reading time, so I didn’t have much time for reading at all. Should be more normal today, hopefully!
And I didn’t do any daily challenge.
Here is what I read on DAY 1:
Total for Day 1: 169 pages
TOTAL so far: 169 /805 pages
Wow, very happy with this 1st day! Do you see all this audio time?? I usually don’t teach on Monday, and as the weather was FINALLY warm enough to plant our vegetable garden (3 weeks later than usual for me!), I did it all, and listened to my audiobooks at the same time. Mystery explained!
Alas, I had to DNF The Story of the Stone, which is actually the first book of Dream of Red Chamber (the book I got for the latest Classics Spin!!)
I saw wanted to read this book. I really enjoyed the first chapter, but then I quickly felt totally lost because of the huge amount of characters. I couldn’t keep track of who was who, and I know this was going to get a lot worse because of the size of the book
I also did 2 challenges:
– on Twitter, Introduce yourself #insixwords
– on Instagram, currently reading
I didn’t participate in the twitter chat, feeling a bit too old now for these, plus, the questions are often the same every year.
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My goal is the same as for Bout of Books 24, as I didn’t manage to reach it: to read 805 pages, an average of 115 pages/day.
Here are the books I plan to read from. Some I’m currently reading.
**This is the overall list for the challenges offered during Bout of Books 25. Make sure you check the blog each day of the read-a-thon for instructions and details on how to complete the daily challenges**
Monday 5/13
Introduce yourself #insixwords
Tuesday 5/14
Bookish favorites
Wednesday 5/15
Book plot emoji
Thursday 5/16
If this, then that
Friday 5/17
Favorite hero/favorite villain
Saturday 5/18
Share the love
Sunday 5/19
Stretch goal
Twitter Chats
(chats last approximately one hour)
TZC = Time Zone Conversion
Monday: 8pm CST (TZC)
Saturday: 10am CST (TZC)
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