Around The Blogs With Chuckles

We all enjoy snooping and lurking on other people's blogs right? Why not share those entertaining things you found with other readers and bloggers too! Welcome to Around the Blogs with Chuckles, where I take time out to show you some of my favourite blog posts from the previous seven days and link you up so you can check them out. 

This week!

1) Book Review-If You See Her by Ania Ahlborn 
Bark goes horror.
http://barksbooknonsense.blogspot.com/2019/11/if-you-see-her-by-ania-ahlborn-book.html 

2) The Wives Of Henry VIII Tell All by Various
Elle goes historical fiction.
http://elleinked.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-wives-of-henry-viii-tell.html 

3) Flu Remedies
Natural ways to feel better in flu season.
https://wellnessmama.com/207/flu-remedies/ 

4) Book Review-In The Dog House by VM Burns
Barb goes cozy with pets!
http://bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/2019/11/cuteness-overload.html 

5) Book Review-The Line That Held Us by David Joy
Carole goes dark and gritty.
https://carolesrandomlife.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-line-that-held-us-by-david-joy.html 

6) Book Review-The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H Wilson & Michael Crichton
Mogsy goes SF.
https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/11/18/scifimonth-book-review-the-andromeda-evolution-by-daniel-h-wilson-and-michael-crichton/ 

7) Amazon Myths 
Bark goes debunking popular Amazon myths.
http://barksbooknonsense.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-writingcommunity-mighty-amazon.html 

8) Home Remedies For Burns
Information on types of burns and how to treat them.
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/11-home-remedies-for-burns/?utm_source=rss%20feed&utm_medium=rss%20feed&utm_campaign=ConvertKit%20Daily%20Email 

Chuckles Friday Reading Roundup

Welcome to my Friday Reading Roundup! This feature will show exactly what I've been reading and DNFing through the week. 

READ

This week 4/5 star, 4 star, 5 star, 4 star!

Chuckles Weekend Roundup

Welcome to my feature Chuckles Weekend Roundup where I will be looking at what books I've received, anything interesting I've done or bought or watched and other random stuff. I'll be taking a look back at what happened in my blogging world too, sort of like The Sunday Post that some of you do! 

Please note that I'll be visiting your STS/SP as normal, but I don't follow or leave comments on blogs run by Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave comments, and I won't allow DISQUS to follow new people, update my profile or post tweets 'on my behalf'. I am the only one who does that on my social media! I won't comment on any blog that makes me sign in using another account. Sometimes, I have problems leaving messages on blogs hosted by Wordpress-they try to block me because I deleted my account with them but I will persevere as it only happens the odd time!

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Another cold week goes by though normal temperatures for November. Those who read my Chuckles Chuntering Post will know that I'm abandoning two of my November challenges as I'm just not in the mood for those books right now. Instead I'm happily indulging in my current non fiction mood though I have a couple of reviews to catch up with in the next few days. Still, I feel pretty much caught up with everything and the reading is going well so I can't complain! I've done my last supermarket shop until January which is good so I'm officially into winter hibernation other than things like milk from the local shop. No Christmas crowds to battle with, no Christmas music on the tannoy-just sport on TV, watching dvds and a roaring fire!

No more book buys for Chuckles until January so from now on my book additions on these weekend roundups will be books that I've found on ereaders and shelves that I forgot to add to my TBR when I bought them!

PAPERBACKS/HARDBACKS

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47162194-jacob-s-ladder

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44234463-slash

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8675269-brown-at-10 

Chuckles Blogging World

Still keeping pretty much up to date with my reviews-just need to write a couple for the books I've read this week and that will be me. Will be going Around The Blogs to catch up with everyone and doing my comment replies in the next day or two. I'm also ahead on my TTT and BFTB posts up to the first week in January so things are going well.

Book Reviews

Mark Lawrence-One Word Kill

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-one-word-kill-by-mark.html 

DD Barant-Dying Bites (Bloodhound Files #1)

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-dying-bites-by-dd-barant.html 

Ant Middleton-First Man In

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-first-man-in-by-ant.html

KW Callahan-Shelter In Place

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-review-shelter-in-place-by-kw.html

Regular Posts

Chuckles Friday Reading Roundup

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/chuckles-friday-reading-roundup_15.html 

Around The Blogs With Chuckles

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/around-blogs-with-chuckles_16.html 

Top Ten Tuesday

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/top-ten-tuesday-changes-in-my-reading.html 

Books From The Backlog

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/books-from-backlog-coronal-mass-ejection.html 

Discussion Posts

Chuckles Chuntering

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/chuckles-chuntering.html 

Book Challenges

Tackling The TBR

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/tackling-tbr_21.html 

Films & TV

 We've watched most of American Ninja Warrior season 9. During the mornings I've been watching some films I've seen before like Battle Los Angeles, Armageddon and Alien Directors Cut to pass the time while I blog.

http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2019/11/chuckles-film-reviews-mamma-mia-here-we.html 

Book Tags/Blog Awards

none this week

Currently Reading/Up Next

It has been a good reading week now that I'm back on to just mood reading! I read two books in an urban fantasy series I was trying to catch up on, and two of these big Game of Thrones encyclopedias. It was mostly photographs and limited writing in them so I zoomed through both pretty quickly. Next up is more non fiction fun!

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Books From The Backlog-Coronal Mass Ejection

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf.  You might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks. Go to Carole's blog and add your blog post link in to join in the fun! Hosted by Carole at https://carolesrandomlife.blogspot.co.uk/

This seems like a fun feature and I have been planning to take part since Carole launched this so at last, here we go! I have a TON of unread books to choose from in various genres and I'm looking forward to sharing some of them with everybody. 

 
This novel details the buildup to and aftermath of a direct hit of Earth by an X-class Coronal Mass Ejection. (CME) The mass of energized particles destroys electrical grids and plunges the industrialized world into darkness. The story focuses on three groups of desperate people in the foothills of Northern California. A deadly confrontation is inevitable and only one group will survive.

Fair warning: This novel contains evil characters who commit criminal acts upon others including murder and slavery.

This book has been on my TBR since 2016 but I keep putting off reading it for two reasons. First, I noted that it is over 350 pages which is always a little bit of a concern ie will it be slow getting to the point of the story? Second, I can't find any reviews that give enough detail for me to decide if it was my kind of read. It keeps getting pushed back but I really need to either delete it or read it!
 

Chuckles Chuntering

I was excited to go into November with three exciting challenges to take part in. The problem is, juggling these three challenges is proving to be a bit too much in one month, which is a bit of a shame. Also, doing a challenge with a genre you're just not in the mood to read is pretty tough so I'm trailing behind in my Read A Series In A Month challenge. I have re-read book one, read book two and will finish the third book in the series before the month ends which is fine, but books four, five and six will need to wait for another time. What I have read proves to me that the series does keep up a good standard so I hope to maybe read them next month or early next year. I still count getting three of the books read as a success even though I didn't read the whole series.

I'm sooooo in a non fiction mood right now so for the rest of this month I'm going to dive into my Game of Thrones behind the scenes books which are gorgeous! There isn't a huge amount of writing to them as a lot of it is visual so they will also be quick reads to kickstart my final push for getting my Goodreads Challenge of 200 books completed and getting below 900 books to read in my TBR challenge. I'm not too sure where this leaves my SF challenge but I do hope to read at least a couple of them before the year ends if I can. But it is more important to me right now to be reading what I actually want to read and feed my inner book beast so the two challenges need to be sacrificed in favour of more success in my NonFiction November. For December I have four or five I need to try and read for completing year long challenges but the rest is going to be pure mood reading which works out well.

How are you guys doing with your reading challenges? Ready for that final push before the year ends?!