Category: Its Monday What ARe You Reading

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. While I am no longer offering up the giveaway incentive, I do hope you will still see the value of visiting other participants and seeing what they are reading- be warned though… this meme tends to add to your reading lists 😀

This past week here is what was posted :

The Stranger by Camilla Lackberg (interesting audio)

 

Lisa Jackson House Party!

 

The Last Original Wife by Dorothy Benton Frank ( what a fun book!)

 

 

Two events coming up that I need to raise funds for:

Camp Benedict Bike Ride (for those infected and affected by AIDS)

Muckfest for MS – Multiple Sclerosis fundraiser

As for this week – here is what is happening:

I am reading this one now and enjoying it so much!  With the good weather we are supposed to have this week I look forward to deck time and this book!

I am curious what you are reading!  Please add your link below where it says click here:

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And for those of you who read mainly YA or Middle grade books, feel free to also link up the younger version of # IMWAYR as well

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:

Lori – Escape With Dollycas

 

**Note – new guidelines:  When I took this meme over 3 years ago from J Kaye’s Book Blog, I thought it would be fun to customize it a bit to be my own.  That is when I added the additional giveaway of what once was a book from a selection I had, and then moved on to the gift card.  The point of doing this was to encourage you to go and visit other participants blogs.  I think the community of the bloggers is so important and seeing what other people are reading and enjoying (or not enjoying) does indeed not only add to community but also to your book wish list. 😀

However, now as my life has become busier and my online time has actually lessened, I find I just do not have the time to always sit down and  send out the gift cards in a timely manner. It takes a lot of time each week to look through the comments – write a number to each person who said they visited 10 or more blogs and commented, give them their correct points, and then run it through random.org to come up with a winner.   I know as winners this can be frustrating to you as you may think I have forgotten, but it is mainly because the email I use for my bookish communications I do not have the time to look at every day and even when I do, I am on it so shortly that I plan to get back to it and complete the gift cards and I just don’t. 

All that said – as of this posting of Its Monday What Are You Reading, I am going to eliminate the giveaway for commenting on other participants.  I am very hopeful that you will do so anyways as it builds community and it leads people to your blog as well when they see you are a presence on the internet.  I am hopeful that you will all continue to do the IMWAYR without the incentive  of a gift card. 😀

As for those of you with pending gift cards, when I get back home later tonight I will sit down and finish them and get them sent.  It you have been a w inner and have not received your card by Wednesday morning, please email me at journeythroughbooks@gmail.com.

Thank you – all of you for participating.  I really enjoy doing this meme. 😀

 

 

Ok, on to whats happening here…. I am coming in so late today as I did not get home from the North Shore until 8 pm last night.  I had a blast hanging out with friends – we walked, hiked, bikes, toured and had a great time! 

Here is what happened this past week here on Book Journey (as it was audio book week last week many of my posts were directed that way)

 

WASH by Margaret Wrinkle (*fascinating audio!)

 

Me Talk Pretty One Day by Davis Sedaris (Audio review – he is so hilarious!)

 

Quiet The Power Of Introverts  (audio review – SOOOOOO GOOD!)

 

 

and if you missed out on the thoughts of audio book week you can catch my opinions here:

 

How to get into audio books and when you can find ways to listen when a book would just be impracticable!

 

What I am currently listening to

 

What do I do while I listen to audio

 

Where do I find the audio I want to listen to

 

 

This week will be interesting.  I have a pretty mellow next two days here but Wednesday is our annual meeting at work which will be a long day and on Thursday I have a house party here for Lisa Jackson’s Tell Me Summer Secrets party.  It should be fun – I hope its nice where we can sit on the deck and enjoy our time.  Saturday is a rock festival I am hoping Al and I can go too.  😀

 

 

SO that all said –

Here is what is currently going on here:

Discover the North Shore of Lake Superior you haven’t seen! Highway 61, from Duluth to the Canadian border, is peppered with tourist hotspots that Minnesotans love. But even the most devout traveler doesn’t know Lake Superior like Kathryn and William Mayo do. These explorers and residents of the region outline the best sites you may not know about. Get 61 Gems on Highway 61 for your next North Shore adventure. With this book in hand, you’ll experience the beautiful region in a whole new way.

Our cabin up North is right off HWY 61 so when I picked this book up this weekend I was thrilled about it.  We actually hit some of the spots yesterday before I cam e home which I will chat more about when I review the book.

 

 

 

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.

Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.

Just started listening to this one on the recommendation of a friend.  SO good so far.  I have enjoyed Dan Browns writing in the past.

 

 

I have other things I hope to start but I feel I am (again behind on my reading.  If all goes well today I will have some time this afternoon to sit out on the deck (that will be the first time this year!) and read a bit in the sun.  Looking forward to it. 😀

What are you reading this week?  Add your link below where it says click here.

 

 

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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:

Mama Bear Musings

 Congratulations!   please send me an email at journeythrougnbook@gmail.com and I will get this out to you later this week!

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.

What are you reading this week?  Add your link below where it says chick here.

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And for those of you who read mainly YA or Middle grade books, feel free to also link up the younger version of # IMWAYR as well

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:

Ruth from My Spare Moments

Ruth, shoot me your email and I will get that sent off to you journeythroughbooks @ gmail.com

I have nothing to show you for posts this past week.  I have been in New York at the Book Expo and just returned home this afternoon.  I am tired, exhilarated, and so much to share with you so watch the posts starting Tuesday morning where I will recap my New York experience day by day.  Hopefully by the end of the week my books I shipped home from the expo will all be here and I can show you those as well.

As for this week.  I am currently reading:

Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She’s got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son.

Shandi doesn’t know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It’s been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn’t define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

I started reading this on the way home on the plane not realizing it does not release until November so I will not be reviewing it anytime soon.  However – if you have not read Joshilyn Jackson YOU MUST read her, or audio fans, listen to her books on audio as she narrates them and they are incredible!  This book is proving to be excellent as well.

I am still listening to all the same audio I was last week and not sure at this moment what I will listen to next.  I am curious what you have been reading this week Add your Its Monday What Are You Reading by using the link where it says click here.

 

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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.

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:

Rose Milligan

Rose, shoot me your email and I will get that sent off to you journeythroughbooks @ gmail.com

The Girl Who Married A Eagle by Tamar Myers

 

 

The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson

 

Confessions Of A Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim (Oh wow!!!)

 

The Bremer L3 Project for our Library – I graduated!!!

 

 

HER by Christa Parravani (a memoir of loss that didnt quite fit for me)

 

 

It was a fairly good week.  Now as I prepare to start my journey to New York Monday evening, I am taking only one book and my phone with audio on it. Here is what will be accompanying me this week:

 

 

Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.

Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died—could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion’s secret passages.

My book club is reading this as this is one of our authors for Wine and Words in August.

 

 

 

 

 

In this luminous debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable journey across continents and through time, from the burgeoning American South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that reside in the soul. Wash introduces a remarkable new voice in American literature.

In early 1800s Tennessee, two men find themselves locked in an intimate power struggle. Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, has spent his life fighting not only for his country but also for wealth and status. When the pressures of westward expansion and debt threaten to destroy everything he’s built, he sets Washington, a young man he owns, to work as his breeding sire. Wash, the first member of his family to be born into slavery, struggles to hold onto his only solace: the spirituality inherited from his shamanic mother. As he navigates the treacherous currents of his position, despair and disease lead him to a potent healer named Pallas. Their tender love unfolds against this turbulent backdrop while she inspires him to forge a new understanding of his heritage and his place in it. Once Richardson and Wash find themselves at a crossroads, all three lives are pushed to the brink.

Holy smokes…stumbled on to this one on audio and so far WOW!

From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new collection of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler’s experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist’s shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that are not to be forgotten.

I heard about this one in the car on the way back from the conference I was at this week.  Both the ladies I was riding with had been reading this and were raving about it.  I just started listening to it on my IPOD and it is good!

 

 

 

 That’s it for me.  What are you reading this week?  Please add your Its Monday What Are You Reading Post to the link below where it says click here.

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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!

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.

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:

Kristen H (@bookgoil)

Kristen, shoot me your email and I will get that sent off to you 😀

I have several reviews to write.  This is what I did post about this past week:

 

The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman (Bookies book club choice)

 

 

The Kill Order by James Dashner (Before the maze….)

 

 

The Unauthorized Guide To BEA (Book Expo 101!  😛 )

 

 

As I am short on time this morning I am just going to give the brief version of I finished up Confessions Of A Prairie Bitch, I honestly do not know what I will start next.  I am listening to The Stranger on audio in my car and Seven: An experimental mutiny against excess, and QUIET on my IPOD.  All three should complete this week. 

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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!

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:

*no winner… no one signed up for it 😛

 

What a fun week!  I had a library Friends board meeting, a fund raiser for the Library that raised $850.00, College son came to town and we had lunch and went rollerblading, a board meeting for Camp, and the BIG Survivor Finale tonight so a pretty good week!  😀  As far as the blog, well this is what happened here:

 

Return To Sullivan Island by Dorothy Benton Frank

 

 

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax (So much fun!)

 

 

For fishing opener a Fish Story

 

 

More to The Harry Potter story… it may be fan fiction.., but it’s also a Potter hit!

 

 

 

The Maze Runner by James Dashner (oooh its about time I read this one!)

 

 

It was a pretty good week… I actually posted, that was fun 😀 .  AND I am actually reading and moving forward on audio which feels like it has been a long time coming.  So here is what I am reading/listening to:

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak– that we owe many of the great contributions to society. 

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts–from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

This is so me… I started this one a while ago and I am getting back to it now.  It really in interesting and accurate.

 

 

 

American life can be excessive, to say the least. That’s what Jen Hatmaker had to admit after taking in hurricane victims who commented on the extravagance of her family’s upper middle class home. She once considered herself unmotivated by the lure of prosperity, but upon being called “rich” by an undeniably poor child, evidence to the contrary mounted, and a social experiment turned spiritual was born.

7 is the true story of how Jen (along with her husband and her children to varying degrees) took seven months, identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence.

Food. Clothes. Spending. Media. Possessions. Waste. Stress. They would spend thirty days on each topic, boiling it down to the number seven. Only eat seven foods, wear seven articles of clothing, and spend money in seven places. Eliminate use of seven media types, give away seven things each day for one month, adopt seven green habits, and observe “seven sacred pauses.” So, what’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased God—a call toward Christ-like simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better existence.

I have been fascinated about this book since I heard or if… now its time to read it!

 

How about you?  What are you reading this week?  Add you link below! 

 

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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!

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:

 

Earl from Chronicles of A Childrens Book Writer!

 

I am super pumped!  I just came off a HIGHLY productive weekend and that always makes me feel good.  Saturday I tackled College Sons bedroom packing up all the papers and posters and goodies he left when he went to college 4 years ago and then proceeded to redo the room with its own full makeover, painting, etc…. in with that I mixed in serving at church from 3:30 – 6:30 on Saturday and 9 – 11 on Sunday, a benefit Saturday evening followed by a concert, and today I spoke this afternoon to a group of people about the camp I work with, grocery shopped, shampooed the downstairs carpet…. and listened to audio 😀

 

So what actually was posted this week?

BEA:  Book Blogger Connection form.  With a little prodding (and poking!) a few book bloggers encouraged me tos et up a BEA connections form for those of us going tp the book expo at the end of this month.  This form is so those going can know who else if going and maybe plan a dinner together one night as a group.  Everyone who signs up will get a copy of the connections spreadsheet.  If you, or some book blogger you know is going to go to BEA please direct them to this form. 😀

 

Requiem by Laurel Oliver (Its not often that the third book in a trilogy trumps the first two… but I think it just happened!)

 

The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater (wow.  Maggie does it again but in a whole different way)

 

I did ok this week and I have been cruising on the audio I have going now believing I will finish all three this week and start new ones, as well as the book I am reading.  The plan for this week is:

AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

Sounds good right?

 

 

 

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.

Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

I have been listening to this one this weekend and holy smokes it is good!

 

 

 

There will be more audio but I am tired and running late on this post so this is what it is. 😀  How about you, what are you reading this week?  Please add your link below where it says click here:

 

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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!

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:

Holly from Reading Teaching Learning!

 

Well hey… what a week.  (Why does it feel like I say that a lot?)  World Book Night, Readathon….Here is what I posted this last week:

The day after World Book Night and The Virus Monster!!!!

 

Dewey Read a Thon Recap (how I did … what I read)

 

And that is it.  😯  NO book reviews.  I need to get writing them… I have some good ones 😀

 

This week I am finishing up current reads and audio but here is what is new for this week:

 

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them-not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all-family money, good looks, devoted friends-but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys…

 

 

 

 

That’s all that is new.  How about you, what are you reading this week?  Please add your link below where it says click here:

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And for those of you who read mainly YA or Middle grade books, feel free to also link up the younger version of # IMWAYR as well