It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  D  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too!  As part of this weekly meme I love to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme.  I offer a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling me how many you visited.  **You dop not have to have a blog to participate! You receive one entry for every 10 comments, just come back here and tell me how many in the comment area.

Last weeks winner:

Lori Chandler from Book Blog Stuff

Congratulations!  Please choose an item out of the PRIZE BOX and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

Another busy week of not as much reading as I had hoped but this weekend I seemed to break through the rut and picked up a book that I am having trouble putting down…. (stay tune this week for a passionate review of Little Princes).  Here is what was accomplished this past week in posts:


Movie Review:  Limitless (I ♥ Limitless)


In Defense Of Patterson (I roll out an unplanned discussion of my feelings about James Patterson and all he writes)


Probably the stupidest thing I have done so far in 2011….

 

What I Learned at BEA (a recap of my first time at BEA – Book Expo America last year for those who are new to attending)


March Recap and for those of you doing the WHERE Are You Reading Challenge a linky is set up for you to do an update post…. I hope you are having as much fun with this as I am 😀


Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott (I know every book we read can not be a win and this one would be one of those rare books I read that I just do not like…. my review…. leaves a few scorch marks)


You might look at this list and say “wow Sheila – you were busy this past week!” but look again… this is not book reviews… this is me… chatting… books, movies, BEA, authors…. not that that is a bad thing… I love to mix it up… but seriousness…. one book completed.  ONE.   It really is the loneliest number.

However…. clear skies ahead friends… this week… I am meeting free.  This may not seem huge, but to me it is so HUGE.  I can not remember the last time I had a week of no:  classes, book club, committees, commitments to do dinners with friends or relatives…… no seriously if I threw a rock into my week trying to hit a meeting… it would sail clean through.  😛

So that said… here is my reading goal this week after I clear up a couple from the library that must go back before I am blogging from jail….

At the end of their junior year, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend pulls a gun in the Commons, leaving six students and a teacher dead and many others wounded. Valerie is hit by a bullet in the leg trying to stop him, just before he ends his own life. Until that point, Valerie had no idea that the “hate list” that she and Nick created would be used to target victims in a vengeful shooting spree. For her, the list of tormentors was a way to ease the pain of being bullied and an outlet against the constant fighting between her parents. Although the police investigation reveals that Valerie had nothing to do with the actual shootings, many people in her community, including her parents, have a hard time believing that she is not at fault, too. With the help of a patient and insightful therapist, Valerie bravely returns to school after the summer to face the challenges before her.

I am so interested in this book and it has been on my table since I bought it, not wanting to shelf it in fear of it being lost to the shelves for far too long!


Whether teenaged or octogenarian, Berg’s heroines brave the emotional landmines underlying domestic scenes (from holiday dinner parties to visiting family), navigate the slippery slope of constant dieting and address the process of aging. The title story features an unnamed, insouciant narrator who flees from a Weight Watchers meeting and allows herself to indulge her most fattening food cravings. In Full Count, an introspective army brat begins to decipher what she looks like to others. The wistful and nostalgic Rain features a woman reminiscing about a good friend who dropped his successful corporate life to live closer to nature.

I started this one this week and well… hmmm…. it’s a bit…. weird.  So far its about food – and a lot of it… but it carries a high Amazon rating and it is part of the Berg trek so onward…. 🙂


On September 11, 1857, more than 120 men, women and children traveling from Arkansas to California were butchered by Mormon militiamen and Paiute Indians at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. This study of the tragedy, by three LDS historians, utilizes previously unavailable archival documents to answer the question, How could basically good people commit such a terrible atrocity? The authors find responsibility almost everywhere: in the escalating tensions between the federal government and Mormon authorities, in the 19th-century American culture of violence, in the barbarism of the emigrants and in the unchecked hunger for vengeance the Mormon militiamen felt toward Americans who had opposed their faith.

I found this title on audible.com and it will be next up on my IPOD once Sookie Stackhouse and I have said our good byes (oh that will be a fun review too…)

 

Honestly I am exhausted…. I worked the Home Show Concessions all weekend starting this past Friday, 10 hours a day.  Tonight we finished up and cleaned up around 5:30 PM (Sunday) and as much fun as it is – stick a fork in me… I am done.  That said, I am finishing up this post (Sunday evening) and closing my lap top…. instead of starting the meme visits tonight as I usually do, I will read a little and go to bed.  I took tomorrow off from work so I will have lots of time to catch up on what all of you are reading on Monday – be sure to link your post below!  😀

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89 thoughts on “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”

    1. LOL… well, at least in the beginning there is sooo much food it doesn’t make me hungry, but a little sick as it is all eaten by the same person. I am curious as to where Elizabeth Berg is going to go with this….

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  3. Sheila, HATE LIST is really a good book. Very emotional and heart wrenching. I look forward to hearing what you think when you finish it.

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  5. Are the library police after you too? I’m a librarian with overdue books so I jest 🙂

    I hope you enjoy your meeting free week! I liked reading your nonreview posts this week (especially the BEA one) and don’t feel bad about reading only one book! You had an incredibly busy week. I only read one book (the other was a month long reread I just finished and only involved listening to a couple of discs).

    I have been wanting to read Hate List and look forward to your review of it.

    Have a great week!

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    1. Hi Christina… well you know we always return to the scene of the crime… I will be at the library this afternoon… I really should return my books to but I was so hopeful I could get them read…

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  6. I liked the Berg short story collection…especially the title story.

    Hate List looks like a good one.

    Hope you have a good week, now that you can sail that rock clean through without hitting any meetings…LOL

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  7. Aha! I see a berg in your reading list every week! 😉 I will have to see what the pull is all about. Have a great week!

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      1. I am not sure I even remember Aths… I think the first Berg I read earlier this year really impressed me and I discovered she had so many books out…. I was surprised I had never read her and then it became a personal quest to read ALL OF HER. 😀

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  10. The Mountain Meadows Massacre is something they still don’t like to talk about in Utah…I grew up there and that whole thing is rather left out when we learned about the history of our state. It’s so sad, so many things are covered up there!

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    1. Hi Maria – I think things will mellow a bit now as far as tons of meetings and commitments – oh bike rides are starting and I have a few events I need to take care of but the stuff that fills up my weeks is looking a bit smoother. 🙂

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  13. ooooh! Hate List looks good! Have a great unscheduled week -although I am kinda hurt about the no book club comment 🙂
    My week has only 4 scheduled evenings so I was happy about that!

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    1. LOL Angie – I say that because I am used to us having one every two weeks now 😀 I thought for sure we had one this week and then realized it is not until next week…. for once I am ahead of the game in my reading! 😀

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  14. Good for you for relaxing tonight! It sounds heavenly. If only….okay, must. stop. daydreaming. LOL 🙂

    Being that I’m LDS, I’ll be interested to hear what you think of Massacre at Mountain Meadows. I honestly don’t know all the history behind it and would be really interested to read more on it at some point. I’ll have to see what you think!

    Have a fabulous week relaxing, reading and possibly reviewing! Enjoy the time! 🙂

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  16. Sheila,
    I have been able to read but not talk about books much this week. LOL

    I am catching my tail trying to catch up blogging.
    Think I may need to turn twitter off whilst online, it is such a tease 🙂

    enjoy your week
    carol

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  17. You have some books listed that I don’t think I could bring myself to read, too heartbreaking. That’s why I’m so into fantasy – urban fantasy, fantasy and science fiction – there’s a barrier between what I read and real life…and I watch comedies to make me laugh!

    I always respect that people are able to read such a variety of genres and subject matter – it’s not always easy.

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    1. Yeah I was looking at my list wondering why I had gone that direction – I think it is because I am reading about Little Princes now and am enjoying the truth of our world within this book…. I like to know things – even the hard things. We will see how I do…. 🙂

      I love fantasy too but have never been able to get into science fiction 😀

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  18. It’s Monday at 5:27 a.m. and I’ve just visited 11 blogs and left comments. How’s that for efficient? Have a good week. I love your blog btw. Belle

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  19. Hate List seems like an interesting read. Often you read about either the perpetrator (who sometimes then commits suicide) or the victims, but never his/her close friends. In a way, Valerie is a victim too. What’s wrong about a novel that incidentally discusses food, and a lot of it? 😉 You must need something as cheerful and uplifting if you’re going to read Hate List and Massacre this week!
    But seriously, Sheila, you amaze me week after week. The amount of activities and books in your life..!

    I commented 25 times (at different participating blogs :P), a rare occurrence, but hey, I finally got a Monday off!

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    1. I am so glad you were able to get around and visit some blogs… I like that! 😀 I enjoy that too and the past few weeks being so heavy with activity have made that near impossible – I am so glad to be able to do it today 😀

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    1. I love days like this – although I feel like I need to shut my mind off as it likes to make plans for me… (right now it is saying – hmmm…. at noon you can do group power, then go to Dominos and return the hot boxes from the show, go to Cub and return the excess buns and meat, you should go tanning, text Heidi and see if she wants to work out at 4, and tonight there is a friends of the library meeting you should check out at 6:30…..)
      GAH! 😛

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  24. I didn’t have such a productive week last week either, and had a crazy busy weekend, so I took off today, too! I am hoping to catch up on some bloggy stuff and some reading today!

    I just found out that Elizabeth Berg is coming to the local mom and pop book store near me in May – I can’t wait!!!

    Hope you have a good day off and a great week!

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  29. I saw Limitless this weekend too! I thought it was amazing! 😀
    You did have a busy week, even if it was stuff other than reviews, you definitely were more productive than me, school has been kicking my butt lately…the semester is almost finished though so it’ll ease up soon 🙂
    Anyways, the books you want to read look pretty great, I hope you have an awesome week!
    Happy Reading 🙂

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  31. I think those of us surrounded by book addicts online tend to forget that one book a week is pretty good going! Most people I know are shocked that I get through so many yet I feel like I’m falling behind!

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  35. Wow, good books lined up for this week! Hate List sounds especially good.

    And a week without meetings or commitments – sounds blissful!

    Enjoy your books this week and stay out of jail…

    Sue

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  39. As always, an enviable list. Life is getting extremely busy as it usually does this time of year – I’m in Little League Hell (or heaven, depending on the weather!).

    I really need to catch up on my Monday posts. I’m sorry I haven’t shown you the love in a while, Sheila! Soon…

    Have a great week! Happy Reading!

    PS. I don’t think they send you to jail for late library books! 😀

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  40. Thanks for the comment, Sheila.

    You should read The Mortal Instruments books if you get the chance. The fourth one, City of Fallen Angels, comes out tomorrow. There’s gonna be two more after that, so you have plenty of time to catch up before the end.

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  42. You always find the most interesting non fiction books. Massacre at Mountain Meadows sounds fascinating. I’ll be looking forward to your review.

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  43. I cannot believe it i managed to read 34 blogs in one day and comment on every single one! But only read 1 chapter of my book!

    Have a great week 😀

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