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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading

BonnieReadsAndWrites15 Comments

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?

It’s Monday. What are you reading?

BonnieReadsAndWrites23 Comments

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be, reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

I just finished two audiobooks this past week (At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities and North of Nowhere) while driving for work and driving to and from our future retirement house in Bryson City. They were both fantastic and I’ll be posting the reviews this week. I also read and reviewed a Christian devotional, Bouquet of Wisdom, and that review can be found here.

This coming week, I’m trying to scale down the Netgalley shelf a little bit. First up is The Beautiful Risk by Lynn Hightower, and then California Golden by Melanie Benjamin. I’m also beginning a long read of The Reformatory (576 pages) for Historical Novel Society.

California Golden: (from Amazon) Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer struggling to compete in a male-dominated sport—and her daughters, Mindy and Ginger, bear the weight of Carol’s unconventional lifestyle.

The Beautiful Risk: After her husband dies in a plane crash on Mount Blanc, Junie has returned to America. She is grieving her husband, and her dog, Leo, who ran off after the crash, is still missing. Then she gets a call from the man investigating the crash in France. Leo has been seen with a man closely resembling her husband! Junie must return to France to try and find out the truth.

The Reformatory: (From Amazon) Gracetown, Florida, June 1950: Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. (Based on a real school of horrors in Florida)

My goal for Netgalley is to get 30 days ahead of my list, and I’m not even close right now.

How about you? What are you reading?