Welcome to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading! 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!
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Under the new and hopefully improved 2013 guidelines, the winner each week will receive a $5 Amazon gift card. This past weeks winner is:
Lexie at Unconventional Book Views !!!!
It was a pretty fair week, I was typically busy but did get in a little reading time. Here is what I accomplished this last week:
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
Mater’s Birthday! One year old – rescued from abuse and amazing he was able to have a first birthday!
The Dogs Of Winter by Bobbie Pyron
Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah
Not too bad a week but I do need to pick up my reading again. This week I am reading:
In Warsaw in 1939, a boy wanders the streets and survives by stealing what food he can. He knows nothing of his background: Is he a Jew? A Gypsy? Was he ever called something other than Stopthief? Befriended by a band of orphaned Jewish boys, he begins to share their sleeping quarters. He understands very little of what is happening. When the Nazi “Jackboots” march into the town, he greets them happily, admires their shiny boots and tanks, and hopes he can join their ranks someday. He eventually adopts a name, Misha, and a family, that of his friend Janina Milgrom, a girl he meets while stealing food in her comfortable neighborhood. When the Milgroms are forced to move into the newly created ghetto, Misha cheerfully accompanies them. There, he is one of the few small enough to slip through holes in the wall to smuggle in food. By the time trains come to take the ghetto’s residents away, Misha realizes what many adults do not-that the passengers won’t be going to the resettlement villages at the journey’s end.
Our book club read for March.
Alcott’s story begins with the four March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sitting in their living room, lamenting their poverty. The girls decide that they will each buy themselves a present in order to brighten their Christmas. Soon, however, they change their minds and decide that instead of buying presents for themselves, they will buy presents for their mother, Marmee…
You know the story… this is a read along over at Fizzy Thoughts for March.
When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back?
For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working–a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart? Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he’s been afraid to ask.
One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good.
Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it’s still not enough.
As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be…gone.
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Ooo Milkweed sounds really good! I will have to check it out. And Little Women is one of my all time favorites. 🙂
It is good – I think it will make for a great discussion.
I am unfamiliar with Milkweed but it sounds fantastic and perfect for a book group read-might make a good companion novel to read with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas too.
Have a great week!
I really appreciated Boy In The Striped Pajamas… I wish we would have read that one as a book club.
Hi Sheila, I really am amazed at the amount of reading you do – and you are also extremely productive with your reviews! 🙂 I’m also glad to see that you’re reading Spinelli’s Milkweed – I have a copy of that Spinelli title lying unloved and unread in my bookshelves – I’m looking forward to reading your thoughts about it. Little Women is one of my absolute favorites. I just realized that my eleven year old daughter has not seen the film yet – will remedy that soonest. Have a great reading week, Sheila! 🙂
Thanks Myra, I like reading and talking books… that makes it fun to discuss with all of you 😀
Have a great week!
Thank you – you as well 🙂
I haven’t read Little Women in a few years but I think I’m going to pick it up when I eventually finish Emma. I didn’t realize there was a readalong happening!
Jill has some fun read a longs coming up, there is still time to join this one 😀
Little Women is a favourite of mine too but it’s been a while since I’ve done a re-read. With everything you have going on I’m surprised you fit in any reading lol
Have a great week and happy reading 🙂
I am listening to it on audio which makes it easier to get to 😀
Lisa Gardner is usually good and suspenseful. Will probably not be back in town in time for book club, will have to email my thoughts later. Have a great week!
We will be missing a few people this month – Amy P is gone, Wendy, Brenda, and you. Too bad too – I think this will be an interesting discussion 😀
I reread Little Women a couple of years ago, and loved it then as much as the dozen or so times I read it as a kid. lol
Gone is a good one, too; love Lisa Gardner’s books. Enjoy your week.
I have read it before and em enjoying re-familiarizing myself with the story 😀
I don’t think I knew about the Little Women readathon. I would have joined in if I had known. It was too sad for me as a kid so I stopped reading it. I do own a copy that I intend to read…someday. Enjoy your week!
Jen its not too lat e- you just have to read it sometime in March 😀
Gone is the least of my faves of Lisa Gardner’s. It was average compared to her other books. 🙂
my IMWAYR
I tend to forget until I am in her books that I am not her biggest fan. 😀 They seem to all be similar to me… now sure why.
Milkweed and Little Women are books I want to read. Jerry Spinelli is an author frequently recommended to me, especially his Stargirl.
I have never read Jerry Spinelli before but I can see why he comes recommended.
Milkweed sounds interesting. I haven’t read Little Women in years. I guess I don’t do too many re-reads though. I have a few Lisa Gardner titles on my TBR shelves. Enjoy your week!
I like the read a longs so dont mind if it a re-read as long as I can fit it in 🙂
WOW! I won something ! *happydances* Thank you Sheila 🙂
Your book Milkweed seems heartwrenching! I’m not even sure I could read that. At least not right now – when I’m in the mood for something light and fluffy.
Here’s my Monday post.
Have a wonderful week.
LOL – glad you got my message 😀 I cant read books like Milkweed back to back.. I need lighter breaks 😀
I have Little Women on my Classics Club to read list. Too bad I have two book club books to get through this month otherwise I would have joined the readathon. I need to read more of Kristin Hannah’s books, I havent read one in awhile but like her writing style. Thanks as always for hosting this fun meme.
Sure Tanya – glad to have you on the Monday group 😀
Little Women…I read it so very long ago…remember loving it and hating when the death came… Later I read a sequel, can’t remember the name, but it had a lot to do with the writer of the family (Jo?) It’s been a long time, so I’m not remember the characters’ names so well, but I do remember enjoying the read.
Have a fun week, hope you get some reading in.
THERE”S A DEATH????? 😯 LOL – just kidding 😆 Had to freak you out a bit. I heard there was a sequel too.. I need to check that out.
Milkweed is a profound book! I have a Kristin Hannah book (Home Front) sitting on my shelf that I must get to!
I am really getting into Milkweed!
You are going to have a great reading week. I reread Little Women a couple of years ago. I found it so interesting how I related to the girls when I was little but related to the mom now that I am grown.
I liek listening to it (audio) ad remembering the story… it is fun to relive.
I like the sound of Milkweed. I have seen it in the bookshop a few times and always liked the sound of it. Look forward to seeing what you think of it. Also I love Little Women. Been a while since I have given it a re-read.
My Milkweed review should be up on Wednesday.
A new Jerry Spinelli? Thanks for sharing!
Is it new? I dont even know 😀
I love that cover of Little Women. I’m reading The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski.
I know that title you are reading… now I am trying to think why… maybe it is on my shelf 😀 I will have to look.
Looks like you have a good reading week coming up! I enjoyed Little Women when I re-read it a few years ago. All these years, and I have never read a Jerry Spinelli book! I look forward to hearing what you think about this one.
And I read one Lisa Gardner novel and really enjoyed it – I should try her again – this one looks very good.
Enjoy your books this week –
Sue
Book By Book
Hi Sue – yes, as long as I make time to read it will be a good week 😀
Isn’t this weather crazy? We had all rain this weekend where you got the snow. I am so ready for Spring!!!
I am really sick of the snow…. yuck. 😀
I hardly had time to breathe last week… no blogging love. You have several good posts I need to catch up on!
Wishing you a wonderful week Sheila. As always, thanks for organizing some book love. xxoo
I know that feeling when the blog has to take the back burner… I think its good to have a mix in our lives but I do miss chatting books when I get to busy to do so 😀
Milkweed sounds like it will be a good read! Enjoy your books!
Thanks 😀
My aunt and I are reading Little Women this month…for the first time ever. It’s March with the March Girls for me!
Nice – and how cool you are reading it with your Aunt!
I have Gone on my list to read…and will probably only get to it soon if I get the audio version. I seem to be really backed up with print books!
Have a great week!
~Kristin @ Always With a Book
I have GONE on audio too or I would now have it on my list… too many books 😀
I’m really looking forward to The Dogs of Winter. I usually read teen fiction, but I don’t have a problem with reading books intended for a younger audience, since they are generally quick reads that I can finish up quickly when I’m otherwise getting through things so slowly.
I still don’t know how you read so many books in a week! Wow!
woo-hoo, i visited 10 blogs on this list!
whew, i’ve commented on 30 blogs so far! I was hoping I would get to everyone, but my eyes are going crossed and I want to finish In The Woods! Good night!