It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 19, 2021 #IMWAYR

     

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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This is my birthday week, Thursday marks the day! One of my daughters is coming for a visit that day. We've seen her off and on this past year but have not gone into each other's homes and haven't had hugs. We are both fully vaccinated now and I can't wait to have her here! I'm thinking it will be the  'hug that never ends'. 💖🤗

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Margreete's Harbor

by Eleanor Morse

Pub date 4/20

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Narrated by David LeDoux & John Randolph Jones

What I recently finished

The Kew Gardens Girls

by Posy Lovell

Pub date 4/20

Of Kindness and Kilowatts

(Nothing is Promised Book 3)

by Susan Kaye Quinn

Read my thoughts here

The Good Sister

by Sally Hepworth

Read my thoughts here

What I am going to read next

When I Last Saw You

by Bette Lee Crosby

Pub date 5/4

I love Bette's stories!

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Release Day! Of Kindness and Kilowatts by Susan Kaye Quinn ~ My Thoughts #OfKindnessAndKilowatts

 

Congrats Susan

on the release today of

Of Kindness and Kilowatts!

Of Kindness and Kilowatts by Susan Kaye Quinn

(Nothing is Promised #3)

Technothriller, 108 pages

Published April 15, 2021 by Twisted Space LLC

Humanity is trapped in a loop.

As the world heats, it takes more energy to keep humanity from dying—a feedback loop that makes net-zero carbon increasingly impossible to reach.

Akemi’s job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral breakout—keeping the power on is an all-out battle. It doesn’t help that he’s distracted by his elderly father, who was struck down and neuro-compromised by the same virus that killed his mother the year before. Now his father is living in Akemi’s attic. They’d never had a relationship before, and that was a fair description of the state of things now.

Then an old friend’s daughter shows up with a mystery of physics… and a tale of stolen kilowatts and deadly intrigue. He would dismiss it outright, except she’s also the Regional Director of the power grid. Something isn’t right, and the Governor won’t accept excuses when the power goes out.

Sometimes, you’re the right person in the right place, whether you want to be or not.

Of Kindness and Kilowatts is the third of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. It’s about our future, how the world is always more complicated than it seems, and how just when it seems like things couldn’t possibly get worse, they invariably do… and that’s when we discover kindness and quantum entanglement are what hold everything together.

Find the whole series on Amazon

My thoughts about Of Kindness and Kilowatts ~~ 

This is such an amazing series, so timely with the energy and climate crises we are living in right now. Then throw in a bit of a pandemic and this could be our world. 

This book focuses on Akemi, as we watch him try to get to the bottom of some evil goings on while also trying to do his job of protecting the people against a heatwave and a virus. We also get a look at his personal life, which I enjoyed. 

The middle of the book got a little bit heavy for me, as I didn't understand most of the engineering lingo but for you engineers out there, I'm sure you're going to love it. I totally loved the rest of the book. 

Like I've said before, I love that Susan creates worlds that take me out of my comfort zone, educating me to a whole new world. I highly recommend this series! Give it a try!

Book #4, Yet You Cry When It Hurts 

comes out on June 17, 2021.

Look at these covers together. Aren't they amazing?

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Read my thoughts about Book #1 here.

Read my thoughts about Book #2 here.

About the author

Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into steampunk and middle grade fantasy. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German, and featured in several anthologies.

She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.

Chat with her about our coming robot overlords on Facebook.

Find all of Susan's books on Amazon

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Connect with Susan

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