Happy Sunday! Sky is looking cloud free here today and the sun is shining! YAY!!!
For the past two days I have been on the North Shore checking on our cabin, chatting with the neighbors… and reading … GLORIOUS READING. It is amazing how much time I can make for reading when I drive out of cell phone and internet range. I finally finished The Three and read two more books – Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf, and The Young World by Chris Weitz. I finished Essentialism by Greg McKeown and have two hours left on my audible audio on my phone, The Weight Of Silence also by Heather Gudenkauf. (That’s what 8 hours in the car will get me 🙂 )
Here is what came into my home this week:
Uncaged by John Sanford and Michele Cook (Random House audio)
And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard (Random House audio)
January Thaw by Jess Lourey (I purchased this one at the Brown Bag Author event last week)
Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline ( William Morrow – Harper Collins)
Help For The Haunted by John Searles (William Morrow – Harper Collins)
Benjamin Franklin’s Bastard by Sally Cabot (William Morrow – Harper Collins)
Getting Life by Michael Morton (Simon and Schuster)
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand (Little Brown – Hachette Book Group)
It is crazy to believe that we are at the end of June already and thus, at the end of audio book month! As tomorrow is Monday and is usually dominated by It’s Monday What Are You Reading, I will more than likely put up a wrap up post tonight. All comments from the audio book posts in June will go into a drawling for a $25 gift card. I will be drawing that winner in the next few days as we start to roll out July and I have a whole other theme for that…. 😉
If you have missed any of the audio book related posts – it is not too late to put in your two cents:
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Book Journey 
Elin Hilderbrand’s The Matchmaker is really good! You will enjoy it.
Thanks! I love her past books I have read!
I need a weekend away like that! Can I go to the cabin with you? Of course, we’d probably do more talking than reading.
Yes Kathy – come to the cabin! You are right though we will just chat and chat 🙂
I don’t have any of those! They look fun!
I have word to do… I mean reading 😀
I always seem to get more reading done too when I’m away from technology. 🙂
Absolutely – narrow down the choices and I am all over that book 😀
Went to a great branch of our local library yesturday w/spouse. Got mega stack of books and 3 CD from the Sale shelves: a German and a Canadian cookbook, Spark’s Nights in Rodanthe ( movie is a top 10), Paris in Love by Eloise James( anything Paris is mais qui), 2 Amish genre and Object of Beauty by Steve Martin. And barely spent a $10 bill! Cookbooks and Martin are hard cover. Rest are trade paper except Rodanthe which is mass market movie tie in cover (I hate those covers). Also donated a bunch of my GoodReads/First Reads wins.
Nice!!! You have been busy!
Enjoy the books…I have Sweet Water and The Matchmaker on Sparky.
I think they will both be good Laurel 🙂
I also recently finished reading The Three and am interested to hear what you thought about it. I haven’t posted my review yet and am still trying to wrap my head around it….was that kind of book! I still can’t decide whether or not I liked it!
There is so much I like about it – but also feel they could have done more and I am left with questions… I dont like being left with questions 😉
I haven’t done as much reading as I would have liked over the past few days.
An interesting selection.
I had a surge – which I needed 🙂 It’s summer – it comes and goes 😉
Ooohhhh I love new books! Enjoy them!!!
Thanks… they are pretty. 😀
Sweet Water is up next for me.
ENJOY all your books.
Enjoy it Elizabeth 🙂
I need a reading getaway! Can’t wait to read the new Hilderbrand.
Come with me and Kathy Candace – LOL….
Nothing beats new books!
Candy for the soul! The type that really whets my appetite. I see books—especially large quantities of them—and I salivate! lol You got a LOT of reading done, Sheila 😀