It’s Monday. What Are You Reading?

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It’s Monday, What What Are You Reading is hosted by: The Book Date.

Update: Doug and I spent Saturday and Sunday in Bryson City and then back home, a whirlwind trip. We’ve both agreed we’re too old for that stuff.

We’ve realized that since we’re one year from moving, it’s time to start to sort our possessions and decide what to sell, give away, or throw away. I’ve been talking about it, but doing nothing, and that has to change. One year is not that long. We’re downsizing from 2600 square feet to 1000 square feet! Wish us luck.

What Am I Reading?

Just finished: The Reformatory

I just finished The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. This is a powerful book about a reform school for boys that is a chamber of horrors, especially if you are not white. Sadly it’s based on a school that actually existed.

Currently Reading: Exodus Team: New Roads

They aren’t paranormal investigators, just ordinary believers who dare to follow God into dark places.

For Maj Newhouse, life revolves around her faith, her friends, Aimee and Kevin Cole, and her projects at the old barn-but that was before Jason Knight walked through the door. The handsome businessman from Chicago has a problem; he has staked his career on rehabilitating a haunted hotel. An encounter with Kevin has led him to the old barn, and Maj is shocked to learn that Knight expects to hire her and her friends as exorcists for his property! Will Maj’s distrust of the charming stranger and her own self-doubt cripple the newly formed Exodus Team before it starts?

This is a fun mix of Christian and paranormal!

Next up: Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose

In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, attending classes and occasionally pursuing her chosen profession as a scientific perditorian, a finder of lost things and people.

Wolcott Balestier, the representative of an American book publisher, arrived in London on a singular mission—to contract with English authors for their latest works. When Balestier disappears on the streets of London one day, his great friend – Rudyard Kipling—bursts into Enola’s office looking for help in finding him. Brash and unwilling to hire a young woman, instead he turns to Sherlock Holmes. Convinced that evil has befallen Balestier, at the hands of rival American publishers who pirate the works of English authors, he sets the elder Holmes on the trail.

But Enola is not one to accept defeat, especially not to her brother, and sets off on her own—determined to learn the truth behind the disappearance of the young American. Can book publishing truly be so ruthless and deadly or can the missing man be rescued from his apparent fate and returned to his friends and loved ones?

That’s what my current reading plan looks like. How was your week and what are you reading?

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I love to read and write book reviews in my free time. I review advance review copies of books on Netgalley for various publishers. I am also a reviewer for Historical Novels Review Magazine, the magazine of the Historical Novel Society. I review books from publishers of all size, large to small. I have a special place in my heart for indie authors. I will sometimes post a little writing that I might dabble in occasionally. I also am lucky enough to live in the Smoky Mountains, so I'll be sharing photos of the beauty around me from time to time.

25 thoughts on “It’s Monday. What Are You Reading?”

  4. Downsizing can be quite a job! When I retired, I moved back home to share a house with my brother. We had two of everything and, since he moved into our new house first, his stuff won in the “what do we keep” wars. I enjoyed the new Enola Holmes and hope you do too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

    1. Funnily enough, we have two of everything because we’ve had the house we’re moving into for 14 years. We have been keeping two households, and combining them into one next year. We have to get rid of a lot!

  6. Sounds like some really interesting reading, Bonnie. Enjoy! Downsizing can be a challenge, but I think you’ll handle it as best you can. Right now I’m reading Colin Falconer’s epic adventure “Venom.” It’s a gripping historical thriller of revenge and retribution, based on real events that begins in Vietnam.

  7. Good luck with the downsizing. We did it 8 years ago. It took a year but we got rid of 75% of our stuff. I have never missed any of it! I picked up a copy of The Lord of the Rings, Book 1 for 1 pound at the hotel I stayed at in Scotland. I realize I had never read it and am loving it. When I got home, hubby was watching it on TV. So funny.

    1. We just finished the Lord of the Rings movie series again. We watch it periodically. I used to read the Hobbit over and over when I was a kid, but I’m not sure I’ve actually read The Lord of the Rings.

  8. I downsized and unloaded a lot once…and never looked back! It actually felt great and gave me room for a few new things:)

  9. We had to sort through our stuff before moving to Florida. It felt like it was a never-ending task. Good luck with all you have to do.

    Your books look really interesting. Enjoy and have a great week!

  12. Those short trips sometimes aren’t worth it to me, especially when the travel time is almost as long as the time I’m at my destination. I need more time to recuperate these days. lol Downsizing to 1,000 sq ft is pretty major! The Reformatory sounds like an intense read.

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