I loved the Gabrielle Meyer book! I am looking forward to #3...in about a year, I think.

I have been listening to a LOT of YouTube books. After I found the timer application, it works well for bedtime. I can't download them onto my tablet for offline use because that is a paid subscription, but it doesn't matter at home. I downloaded hoopla and libby ebooks for travel this weekend.

I finished a couple of Elizabeth Maddrey's Arcadia Valley books on You Tube. I was looking for Idaho books and Valerie Comer mentioned that they were set in Idaho. I decided to do the YouTube ones first, and I will probably go back and get Valerie Comer's and some of the other authors on KU.

I am trying to get to the last few states on the second 2023 read-through of the states. Some states I have a huge list and there were 5 that I hadn't read yet. Now I have read 2 of those 5 and am working on #3. Hopefully by the end of the month I will have all of the states read at least twice for 2023. It has been kind of fun to keep track of most of my reads by state. Some I don't easily catch the state, and some are international (which I also started to track).

Currently I am reading A SHINING LIGHT by Judith Miller (Amana Colonies). This is my Iowa read. I have book that the library is ordering for me, from Iowa, too. I don't know why it was so hard to find Iowa books that the library has, or I hadn't already read. Someone reminded me of the Amana Colonies books and there were a couple that I hadn't read, and the library had one....it works.

I still have New Jersey and Vermont to finish up.

Edited: I turned the book on this morning and almost immediately was offended by a scene. I skipped to the last chapter and epilogue. I had gone too far in the book to not at least find out how it ended. No more Carolyn Brown books for me, now that I know that one book in a series can be offensive, but another wasn't. Just not consistently "clean" anymore.

AARG - I used to read a lot of Carolyn Brown books. They were always clean and some came up through the library. I think it must have been on the Christian fiction listing, or I wouldn't have seen it. I read the first one and it was really good, but there was one word that was used often...not cursing, but one that makes me cringe. I decided to pick up books earlier in the series and checked out the two before that one. Book one has language I really do not appreciate. I am trying to finish it since I got further into it than I normally would because I was busy and couldn't change books. I fell asleep while listening last night...so I won't go back, and will just scan through the rest. I already turned book 2 back into the library.

I have been reading the Original Six series (hockey) by Carolyn Miller. These are definitely Christian fiction, but one has had some slang in it. I don't remember which one right now. I had book one, bought book 6 for 99cents, books 3-5 were in the library application. Book 2 was $4.99 and I don't usually ever buy books, even at under a dollar, so I will just have to miss that hockey team.

I have been listening to several B E Baker / Bridget E Baker books from the library. I don't know where I found them since they aren't Christian fiction, but they are basically clean. They don't necessarily have the same values that I do, but there is nothing objectionable except some light slang. That word has permeated too many of the books that I have read lately (even CF) ....not really a bad word, just crass.

I have a bunch of CF suspense checked out on KU and from the library, so I need to get back to them. This jaunt into "clean" fiction just isn't the same.