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 do 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.
Under the new and hopefully improved 2013 guidelines, the winner each week will receive a $5 Amazon gift card. This past weeks winner is:
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A busy week here between organizing a 5k for a fund raiser and book club this past Tuesday. Here is what was on the blog:
However Long The Night by Aimee Molloy (Wow what an amazing book!)
The Fate Of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb (Bookies June read and review)
Brown Bag Author Event: William Souder
The Good House by Ann Leary (pretty goof listen on audio!)
This week here is what I will be working on that is new:
Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley’s wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and cherish—’til death did them part—for tanned and toned young Barbie brides.
If losing the social life and close friends she adored wasn’t painful enough, a series of setbacks shake Les’s world and push her to the edge. She’s had enough of playing the good wife to a husband who thinks he’s doing her a favor by keeping her around. She’s not going to waste another minute on people she doesn’t care to know. Now, she’s going to take some time for herself—in the familiar comforts and stunning beauty of Charleston, her beloved hometown. In her brother’s stately historic home, she’s going to reclaim the carefree girl who spent lazy summers sharing steamy kisses with her first love on Sullivans Island. Along Charleston’s live oak- and palmetto-lined cobblestone streets, under the Lowcountry’s dazzling blue sky, Les will indulge herself with icy cocktails, warm laughter, divine temptation and bittersweet memories. Daring to listen to her inner voice, she will realize what she wants . . . and find the life of which she’s always dreamed.
Told in the alternating voices of Les and Wes, The Last Original Wife is classic Dorothea Benton Frank: an intoxicating tale of family, friendship, self-discovery, and love, that is as salty as a Lowcountry breeze and as invigorating as a dip in Carolina waters on a sizzling summer day.
In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood—in the throes of Cold War paranoia—seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son.
Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?
Tonight I am sitting here watching Identity Theft (funny!) And getting ready for Audio Book Week that starts tomorrow.
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I want to read the new Dorothea Benton Frank!! I am on the list at the library. 😦
And I totally screwed up your linky page. 😦 I am tired and pasted in the wrong link. I am sorry. The first one is wrong if you want to delete it.
I just got The Last Original Wife from the library and I’m looking forward to reading it, hopefully soon. Have a great week!
The Last Original Wife sounds good and I love the cover, Off to check out your review of However Long the Night. Have a great week and happy reading 🙂
I’ve been wanting to read The Last Original Wife….and I downloaded Is This Tomorrow? this week. Enjoy!
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Is This Tomorrow sounds interesting. Argh – is it Audioweek already? Well – At least I have several audio titles to post reviews for. 🙂
Have a great week.
Good luck with the fundraising. I’ve only read a handful of audiobooks but it just wasn’t my style.
I’m looking forward to reading Is This Tomorrow. Intriguing!
You’ve had a pretty busy week! How did the 5K go?
I think I’ll add ‘Is This Tomorrow’ to my TBR, that looks really interesting 🙂
Have a fantastic week, Sheila, happy reading.
The Last Original Wife looks excellent. Have a great week!
I see the Dorothea Benton Frank books everywhere but I have never read any yet. This one sounds interesting.
Looks like you got some good reading ahead of you. I’m looking forward to Audiobook Week too!
You will LOVE Is It Tomorrow. Finished it Friday night. The Last Original Wife was very good too. ENJOY the both.
BTW, I visited EVERY blog last week and left a comment. 🙂
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My It’s Monday!! What are You Reading?
I can’t link up…I keep getting an error. Any ideas why?
Elizabeth
Never mind…must be Firefox. I went to Internet Explorer and I was able to get linked up.
Enjoy your day!!
Off to read some of your happenings this week. I’ll look forward to your thoughts on “Is This Tomorrow” – I’ve had half an eye on that one! Enjoy your reading week!
very descriptive book blurbs. time – always the constraint!
enjoy audio week =)
I’ve liked the Caroline Leavitt books I’ve read – I’ll have to add this one!
I love the title of However Long the Night. Happy reading.
Oh, and I forgot to say I read and commented on a dozen blogs! 🙂 Thank you for encouraging us to do that! It’s fun!
Some interesting reads and I’d not heard of them before so thank you for introducing them to me. Have visited 10+, think its nearer to 20 this week.
Caroline Leavitt and Is This Tomorrow are EVERYWHERE I turn lately! I bought both my mom and my stepmom a copy of the novel for Mother’s Day, the author is here in town this week for an author event with our local bookstore (though it’s the same night as my book group), and my favorite book podcast just recommended this novel this week! Now I need to read it myself. All these recommendations have convinced me to include it on my list of book choices for my book group this week (it’s my turn to choose a few books for the group to vote on). Can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
Enjoy your books this week –
Sue
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Don’t Miss Is This Tomorrow. It is really good. I finished and reviewed it last Friday.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
I reeeeeeeally like that cover for Is This Tomorrow, I want to look into it based on that alone! Hope you enjoy your books this week 🙂
I’ll be finishing THE LAST ORIGINAL WIFE this morning. You’re gonna love it – Dottie writes just like she talks.
I completely agree. I could hear her talking as I was reading. 🙂
It was a good book.
You had a really busy week! Be sure to stop by and check out my contest.
10 BLOG VISITS
I have Is This Tomorrow on my kindle, not yet started, and heard only good things about the Last Original Wife. I read review of The Fate of Mercy Alban and that is a possibility for me too. Nice assortment of books; enjoy your week of reading!
I visited 11 blogs so far, have to take a break to run errand, and will definitely visit more–this is one of my main ways of finding new titles 😉
I have visited and commented on 16 so far. I found so many new titles. Love it.
Great selection. Is it just me that there seems to be lots of novels around that are set in the 1950’s. Not something I’m complaining about as I have a certain fascination with this era.
I have The Last Original Wife on hold at the library and can’t wait until it comes in! Enjoy your reading!
Is This Tomorrow sounds riveting…and onto the list it goes. I just read further down on your blog about your book group and it sounds so fun…wish I lived close enough to join. 😉
Again, thanks for hosting this event…
*smiles*
I just visited 10 Blogs!
Awesome blog! Just added to my to-read list!
Is This Tomorrow is the next audiobook I’m listening to. Have a great week of reading Sheila!
I am finding so many new books…like I need more. LOL!!
I have visited 48 blogs on the list…didn’t comment on all of them, though. Commented on about 40 of them.
ENJOY your week, Shelia.
Visited over 70 blogs, commenting on 50 of them.
Thanks for hosting this and hope you are having a great week!
I visited all 103 blogs…I like to see what’s happening on everyone’s blog. I commented on about 90% of them.
Have a great week.
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