The ever-growing 2026 list is being added to the ever-expanding currently reading (and I use the term loosely) and TBR pile:
Some have been on the pile for a few months and are just on pause. Some have been on it since it was a simple list and not three piles, a basket and a drawer. And looking at Booker D. Penguin reminds me that I have one more piece of book mail coming.
I haven't gotten mail from Penguin in at least six years (in a previous job). I got so much from them that when I won the aforementioned penguin at a carnival I had to name him Booker. I mean, was there another choice? One of the authors I got to interview in the old days was Shari LaPena and it was for "The Couple Next Door," mentioned on the cover of this book. I remember liking her and the book.
As for giveaways ... I can't even tell you how many Goodreads giveaways I've entered recently but it's been a lot. A lot. I don't know if winners are chosen by the luck of the draw or if there's an algorithm or whatever, but I haven't won in a long time. I have to wonder if it's because of my reviews. One of the conditions of the giveaways is that you write an honest review. I do that but I don't write a synopsis of the book when I write a review. I figure anyone who is reading a review has already read the synopsis and some blurbs and, more than likely, other reviews. They don't need my synopsis, too, so I just get straight to what they came for: My opinion. I do that for all my reviews. If I start getting paid by the word or by the inch, I'll start writing more.
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