4 stars-- Killer Keys (Cozy Corgi Mysteries #10) by Mildred Abbott

Corgis, bookstores, snowstorms, a little romance and celebrating? Ahhhh Killer Keys! I loved it!

The Gist: A family celebration at the local in goes full out drama when a blizzard hits and everyone is snowed in and then....someone starts killing staff and guests. Oh my!

Best Books of 2019!

I had a wonderful time reading the first half of 2019. I continued taking very few review books and focused on just reading for fun. Freebies, from the library, from my own shelves for a change. I tried out KU and picked up some random suggestions from friends. And it was fantastic! Things did go sideways mid September and I haven't really read since then but before that I read 144 total books. Which is pretty amazing since I've only read 3 since September! But I hit my Goodreads goal which is great. Anywho...

5--Print
124--Ebook

16--Audio

New to Me Authors-- 25

These were my favorites...

4 stars-- Bring Me Home for Christmas (Virgin River #14) by Robyn Carr

One of my favorite places to visit is Virgin River at Christmas. It's magical!

The Gist: Becca never got over her ex, Denny. It's been years and she's with a new guy but the past still haunts her so she crashes her brother's hunting weekend with the guys to finally put things to rest with Denny (one of her brother's friends and hunting buddies). 

1.5 stars-- Mistletoe in Texas (Texas Rodeo #5) by Kari Lynn Dell

What an utter disappointment. Both Mistletoe in Texas AND the author herself. Before I get into the review I want to note that after I posted my review to Goodreads last year the author went on her Facebook page complaining and sending readers over to Goodreads to try and manipulate the ratings in order to move my review lower in the ranks as well as having people flag my account. Charming behavior, really. She is no longer on my recommend list even for the books I absolutely adored by her. This is abhorrent behavior by an author and her apology was simply an attempt to cover her ass and bad behavior.

Now the review...

Mistletoe in Texas would be an awesome read...if every single scene with the heroine was eliminated.

Things...

I'm still here. And mostly okay.

Things have gone fairly quiet on the blog the last few weeks. I had posts scheduled but honestly didn't want to deal with comments and visitors. Sorry yall. Life kind of sucks sometimes and I was done for a bit. Still am more or less.

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[memes] Well THAT'S a Title! Woo! + this week

I FINISHED A BOOK!!!! Yall! It had been nearly 3 weeks. Three. Weeks! I cooked a meal, too. Nothing fancy but can't actually remember the last time I turned on the stove! I had to force myself to do both but I did them. So there's a start at least. lol

Non bookish news. The food pantry was an absolute mad house. My fitbit died and I had to get a replacement that I don't love but it lets me have a cat face on the screen so that's kind of fun.

Instacart went well. I hit my weekly goal again which is exciting. I'm determined to pay this mortgage off early. Plus it's kind of fun. Though damn other instacart shoppers are bitter ugly people. If you hate your job...find something else. Goodness.

It got cold here. 40s overnight this coming week 70s during the day. Not cold to some but since we were mid90s last week it's a chill. I've replaced about a third of the garden and have another third to go. Need to set up a green house, too, so that's the current

[memes] Yall. I'm Broken. So Broken. +things.

Yikes yall! I haven't read since September 19th! I finally made myself read on Oct 4th but it was like 10 minutes and then I was done. Not the book's fault. It's actually good. It's all me. I'm just not in the mood to read...at all. Or cook. Or garden. Apparently September broke me some how. lol

Post phase 1 rip out. More will have to go.

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2 stars-- Daughter of the Spellcaster (The Portal #2) by Maggie Shayne

Daughter of the Spellcaster turned out to be quite the letdown. A flaky heroine, a bunch of cheesy paranormal witchery, oblivious characters. It just missed the mark completely for me.

The Gist: Ancient souls come back around to right a wrong done to them. And a witch and  playboy being the bodies they inhabit this go around. They just have to figure it all out before evil swoops in again and destroys them all.

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The Monthly Herd-- September-- What Happened?!

My word. Where did time go?! September was crazy around here. From family to herd to garden and doing new things.

So the highlights? Mom is doing great post knee surgery and getting back to normal life. The herd has been hanging in there. Everyone's fine just driving me out of my mind. lol

I started working for Instacart which has been an experience! I'm having my 3rd shift today. And I got a drone and promptly crashed him. He survived! I'm not a good drone mom.

Blog All About It: Crunch

This Month's Prompt!
CRUNCH

Welp. I had planned to do a fall themed one for crunch since our leaves change color and get all crunchy. But the prompt is about a month too early. Oops!

So my 2nd favorite type of crunch. That's the very devil.

[memes] Oh the FALL TBR pile! Woo! Plus a tiny dang watermelon.

Um. Not sure what happened to the past week. It just flew by. I did have the USO and Food Pantry. The pantry was fine. The USO was not. We had someone join our group for the shift and I did not like her one single bit. One of the guys loved her and invited her back any time. Ugh! So I may be skipping USO shifts if she joins again.

Other than that. Hmm. I didn't do much reading. I just wasn't into it this week. I did get a drone! And promptly flew it into a wall, freaked out a cat and then lost it the next day for a good half hour when I went to the park. lol I can get it up and have it stay in the air somewhat where I want it now. So we'll see how it goes this coming week. lol

Sign Up-- Get Your Shit Together Challenge!

Soooo I've come up with a new challenge for October after chatting with some people on Facebook. It's all about Getting Your Shit Together. Basically an adulting checklist for the month with all kinds of prompts (one a day). 

SIGN UP-- Blog Ahead October Challenge 2019

It's TIME!!!!!! Yes, it's nearly October and that means it's time to sign up for our annual Blog Ahead Challenge! I love this challenge! It's a fantastic way to get a little support from other bloggers and get yourself ready for the end of year school madness, for the holidays, get prepared in case there's an emergency or just put last minute blogging behind you!

This was a game changer for my personal blog. I love not having to worry at 1150pm that my post for the next day isn't finished.