Welcome to It’s Monday! What are you Reading? It’s hosted by Kathryn from Book Date. This is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind.
WHAT AM I READING NOW
I’m reading the final ARC of The Diamonds by Gail Meath. It’s Book 7 of the Jax Diamond series, and it’s out May 15th. You’ll soon see a Q&A with Gail along with my review.
JUST FINISHED
This is the story of a Manhattan family from 1912 to 1965. I read it for The Historical Novel Society so I can’t give my impressions until it is published on August 1st. You can read more about it on Amazon.
NEXT UP
(From Amazon) Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it. Plus, her greedy and unscrupulous brother-in-law wants to make sure she fails. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help—including the daughter of her estranged best friend—Traci has one summer season to turn it around. But new information about a long-ago drowning at the hotel threatens to come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair.
GENERAL UPDATE
DINANT, BELGIUM
Really beautiful town that I visited this past weekend. I was taking pictures from the Citadel, where there is a museum. Dinant is the home of the Saxophone! My pictures are slow to upload today, so I’ll post more about this later.
How about you? How was your week? What are you reading?
As for me I just started reading The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World by Andy Bowman
What an interesting title!
I have not yet gotten far enough in the book to explain the title, but he is writing about solar power stations that he was part of building.
Great to see Dinant again 😀 I was there last summer when it was about 36C! We went for a walk along the river instead of waiting in the heat to get into the Citadel.
it must have been a slow day. I didn’t have to wait. It was raining a lot though!
Hope you didn’t get too wet!
I had a rain jacket but my leather purse didn’t survive intact sadly
Thank you, Bonnie!
Welcome, welcome!
Does it feel surreal sometimes- waking up and realizing you’re in a different country? This photo is beautiful 😍 I loved Summers at the Saint! Hope you enjoy it too!
Definitely surreal sometimes. I’m looking forward to my first summer read of 2024.
It’s great that you’re able to do some sightseeing in Europe while you’re working there, Bonnie. Right now I’m reading “Who The Hell Is Harry Black” by Jake Needham, and finally finished “Under the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa” by Earl Shorris, which is over 600 pages and caused a lot of pondering.
600 pages! I confess i usually stick to books under 350. 600 is a commitment for sure.
I started reading it about 40 years ago, borrowing it from a Mexican friend of mine. I couldn’t finish it because he had to return it to the library. I mentioned it once at a family gathering and one of my grandsons bought it for me.
I just posted a review for Frank Prem’s White Whale. I’m currently doing a beta read for a friend of a friend.