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Welcome to It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading, Easter Addition!  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.

Laura from Words From The Tampa Bookworm

This winner will receive a $5 gift card from Amazon, while I straighten out the Reading Cafe this week to update the books i have for giveaway.  Trust me…. it will be worth it.  Next week I should have some sweet choices. 😀

I am behind on sending packages out and have worked today to get things bundled up to go in the mail tomorrow.  Thank you all for your patience!  😀 

***  Also be sure to read to the end of this post today – there is a fun bonus giveaway in honor of the holiday!

So anyway, Happy Easter!  I hope everyone’s weekend was wonderful.  Mine was a much appreciated quiet weekend.  After a busy week it was nice to not have much on the agenda for the weekend.  I read, I cleaned house, a little audio, and a little company.  A perfect combo. 

I know last week I mentioned I was still tweaking this look on the blog… but it is starting to grow on me and some positive feedback has allowed me to relax and let it be.  Here is what has happened this week:

 

The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka

 

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Lisa See, as I am finding out, is an incredible story teller!)

 

The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani (Oh yes… it is THAT GOOD!)

 

Looking for TITANIC Challenges?  I posted them here.

 

Pinterest Interest and the blog (did you know that you can use Pinterest to promote your reviews?)

 

Lessons From The Outdoors (The things we Minnesotan’s find climbing in the trees! 😯 )

 

Tea With Hezbollah by Ted Decker (this read inspired some fun cookie baking!)

 

 

Wow!  Looking back over the week, that’s the best week I have had in awhile!  I also wrote a review today for The Girl Who Was On Fire which I will post later this week. 

So what’s up for this week?

On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin — which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist — is a second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over.

Holy crud!  I thought I had read this one and realized I had not.  I started listening to it on audio yesterday and I am GLUED to it. 

 

 

 

 

 

Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued brother in an elegant town house in Boston’s Back Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sibyl flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium.
But when her brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman, Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton Derby, despite the unspoken tensions of their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering spark flares to life, and they realize that there may be something even more magical between them than a medium’s scrying glass.

This book hits the shelves on the tenth, and we are currently in Titanic week which is a subject that really touches me. 

 

 

 

It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura’s brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.

The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, “Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still.”

I am starting this one if I have time this week, as it is a winner that needs to pass on when I am done. 

 

 

That’s it.  Plenty to read around here.  😀  I will really curious as to what you are reading this week and plan to make my rounds and see so be sure to add your Its Monday What Are You Reading link below where it says “click here” and I as well as others will be over to see what you are reading. 

I did mention a bonus didn’t I?  😀  Have you heard of the book Ready Player One?  I listened to it on audio at the end of last year and LOVED it, probably one of the best audio I have ever listened to!  Anyway, in this story there is a guy who is a multi billionaire and has no family.  When he dies, he leaves in his will clues to what he calls a hidden Easter Egg and it hidden within this game world.  The finder of this egg wins all he owns.

So… I was thinking in celebration of Easter, we would have our own hidden Easter egg here!  4 wonderful and gracious participants of this meme have offered to put an Easter Egg I have sent to them at the bottom left side of their posts.  the egg looks like this:

As you go and check out the other meme participants, if you find the posts that have the egg:

1.  Make sure you leave a comment

2.  Make a note of which blog(s) you found the egg on

If you find at least three of the four eggs, email me at journeythroughbooks@gmail by Wednesday at midnight central time.  If there is more than one winner I will use random.org to choose a winner and announce this name on Thursday morning here.  That person will win a $25 gift card to Amazon (enough to get Ready Player One if they wish, or any other book that catches their eye!)

Link up!  Lets get this party started! 

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Hi all!  First off, don’t run away!  Yes it’s me.  I have been busy with the Bloggiesta (pretty much like an online Blog maintenance seminar) all weekend and yeah… I made some changes.  😀

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.

Lori from Escape with Dollycas

WOO HOO!!!!  Please choose an item out of the Reading Cafe Grab Shelves  and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

You are getting a mini version of this meme this week as honestly… I am a little wiped out.  I put in about 23 hours on the blog this weekend, prepping posts, fixing links, organizing, running a challenge, yeah I am wiped.  😀

This past week I did not get a lot of reading done as I had meetings Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday went into Bloggiesta mode until ummm…. about 30 minutes ago. 

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (review)

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (review)

My Very Own Book Fairy sent me a box of books!  Want to win one?

The Descendants movie review with giveaway

Bloggiesta Finish Line (want to know what I did this weekend?  Check it out here.

If you participated in Bloggiesta my mini challenge is still open until midnight on Sunday (central time)

 

I’ve got a few giveaways going on so be sure to check them out.  As for this week – I have some books i need to finish so bare minimum:

Thats it.  Add your What Are You Reading to the linky below and I as well as other will try to stop by and see what you are reading! My hours at work drops back to normal this week so I should have more time to get around.

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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.

Juliababyjen’s Reading Room

WOO HOO!!!!  Please choose an item out of the Reading Cafe Grab Shelves  and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

What a BUSY week but, not sitting here Sunday evening and looking back… it has been an awesome one.  I had something just about every night and a weekend out of town.  I just came back this afternoon and pulled in my yard at 3:30 pm.  I had a floor hockey game at 4 pm so changed quickly and off I went.  I finished up at 4:50 pm, drove home showered and went to a birthday party for a friend that started at 5 pm…. I got there about 5:30, tired, but clean…. and happy.  😀

Not as productive as I would have liked this week, here is what is true:

 

Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson (book review and Bookies food to go with the book!)

 

this beautiful life by Helen Schulman (a book tour on an all too real subject!)

 

Carry The One by Carol Anshaw (review to come)

 

I have made no progress this week on Jane Eyre.

 

Oh.  Thats it.  😯

as for this week… well, still catching up apparently.  So not going t go too crazy so I think I will leave the books as they were last week and add this:

A novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.

 

 

 

Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory.

Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhane’s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss.

 

 

Ok I know… a couple unusual choices but I have several books to finish of different genres. 😀

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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.

Lori from Escape with Dollycas

**PS I am a little (ok a lot) late on getting winners out as of late. I hope to get all packages out this week.

WOO HOO!!!!  Please choose an item out of the Reading Cafe Grab Shelves  and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

I am feeling pretty awesome right now.  It was a perfect weekend.  Saturday I was a slug… I literally stayed in the recliner most of the day, wrote a couple reviews, read an entire book, napped, and we ordered in for dinner and watched a movie.

Sunday, had church, went to the gym, came home and cleaned my entire kitchen, took apart the dish washer, cleaned it all out and put it back together, dusted, swept, mopped, cleaned bathrooms, jumped back on My Fitness Pal, and then had floor hockey.  PRODUCTIVE?  Yes.  😀

So now lets see how this past week went:

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (hoo yeah!  Read it!)

 

Pandemonium – SPOILER PAGE!  If you have read it, here we can talk about it!  You know, about the thing… and the thing, and oh yeah – the THING!

 

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (fantastic!)

 

The Eyre Report #3 (my update on the reading of Jane Eyre)

 

The Flight Of Gemma Hardy by Margaret Livesey (a little funny that I did not recall going into this book that it is a more modern version of Jane Eyre 😀

 

Ice by Linda Howard (Yes, occasionally a snarky review is in order.. and here it is)  😯

 

DNF:  Great House… by disc two I was so lost I put it away. 

 

All in all, I think a pretty impressive week :D.  I feel pretty good about what I got done, a mix of books and audio.  Going into this week here is the plan, knowing I have a busy start to the week and then a girls weekend coming up on Friday…. so it will be a light one:

Katniss Everdeen’s adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide.

In The Girl Who Was on Fire, thirteen YA authors take you back to Panem with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy’s darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection’s exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, protagonist Katniss’ world really is.

• How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitch’s drinking, Annie’s distraction, and Wiress’ speech problems?
• What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror?
• Why isn’t the answer to “Peeta or Gale?” as interesting as the question itself?
• What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout history—and what can we?

Doesnt this sound like fun?  I figure with a little over a week out from the movie this would be a great read!

 

 

 

 

Newlywed Caitlin Shetterly and her husband, Dan Davis, two hardworking freelancers, began their lives together in 2008 by pursuing a lifelong, shared dream of leaving Maine and going West. At first, California was the land of plenty. Quickly, though, the recession landed, and a surprise pregnancy that was also surprisingly rough made Caitlin too sick to work. By December, every job Dan had lined up had been canceled, and though he pounded the pavement, from shop to shop and from bar to bar, he could not find any work at all. By March 2009, every cent of the couple’s savings had been spent.

So, a year after they’d set out with big plans, Caitlin and Dan packed up again, this time with a baby on board, to make their way home to move in with Caitlin’s mother. As they drove, Caitlin blogged about their situation and created audio diaries for NPR’s Weekend Edition–and received an astounding response. From all across the country, listeners offered help, opening their hearts and their homes. And when the young family arrived back in rural Maine and squeezed into Caitlin’s mother’s small saltbox house, Caitlin learned that the bonds of family run deeper than any tug to roam, and that, with love, she and Dan could hold their dreams in sight, wherever they were.

Made for You and Me captures the irrepressible spirit and quiet perseverance of one small family–and offers to share that strength with any reader willing to make the journey.

This one has sat way too long waiting on… me.  😀

 

 

 

 

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen’s wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark, country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, connect and disconnect and reconnect with each other and their victim. As one character says, “When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.”Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the modest tragedies and joys of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we’d expect.

I am about half way through this one and hmmmm…. I dont know yet.

 

 

 

 

The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don’t happen to like each other very much.But the sisters soon discover that everything they’ve been running from-one another, their small hometown, and themselves-might offer more than they ever expected.

This one has such a fun title!  This is up next after Carry The One.

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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.

BLKosiner’s Book Blog

**PS I am a little (ok a lot) late on getting winners out as of late. I hope to get all packages out this week.

WOO HOO!!!!  Please choose an item out of the Reading Cafe Grab Shelves  and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

Coming in a little late with this post on Sunday evening… I had a busy day, floor hockey this evening and Amazing Race (had to watch it!) and then well… here I am.  😀

While my week had slowed down last week (thank you thank you!) I am still catching up on my reading.  Here is what was accomplished this last week:

Thoughts on the Oscars and Angelina’s leg… 😛

Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben (audio)

Mental Floss The Book (a history of listory 😉 )

February Recap and Challenge Updates

Heartbreakers by Pamela Wells (YA audio)

I seem to be struggling a bit in the reading department… there is a book I am trying to get through but every time I pick it up I only manage a few pages.  Normally I would just pass on the read, but this one if for a tour so I am determined to come up with something out of it.  😯

New for this week however is:

Gabriel McQueen has only just arrived home on holiday leave from the service when his county-sheriff father sends him back out again with new marching orders. A brewing ice storm, and a distant neighbor who’s fallen out of contact, have the local lawman concerned. So he enlists Gabriel to make the long haul to the middle of nowhere, and make sure Lolly Helton is safe and sound. It’s a trip the younger McQueen would rather not make given the bitter winter weather–and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly.

But there’s no talking back when your dad is the town’s top cop. And there’ s no turning back when night falls just as Gabriel arrives–and discovers that the weather outside isn’t the only thing that’s frightful. Spotting strangers in Lolly’ s home–one of them packing a weapon–is all it takes to kick Gabriel into combat mode. And his stealth training is all he needs to extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is discovered, the heat–and the hunt–are on. And the winter woods are nowhere to be once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.

I am almost through this on audio… and I have thoughts… lots of thoughts… and not necessarily good ones…

 

 

 

 

I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

OOH – I am craving Dystopia and this hot little number waits for me on the table!

 

 

 

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.

As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules.

At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most.

I read Lisa See earlier this year and really look forward to this one!

 

 

 

For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.

Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?

I have always thought this one looked interesting!

 

So that’s the plan… and to catch up on the books.  I hope you have some great books planned for this week! Please add your link to your Where Are You Reading post 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.

MarthaE

WOO HOO!!!!  Please choose an item out of the Reading Cafe Grab Shelves  and email me your choice with your mailing address as well!   journeythroughbooks@gmail.com

Well.. it was another week around here.  If you read my morning post today you know just how crazy it was.  With hardly a free hour all week between work and evening commitments, books fell again to the wayside and believe me…. that does not make me happy.  I am person who needs down time to re energize, and books in my life.  When things are out of whack…

I am out of whack.

LOL…. couldn’t resist.  Anyway – here is what did happen here last week:

 

What’s Your Number?  Movie review

 

Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani ( a re – read but this time with my book club and oh…. the food!!!)

 

The Making Of A Book Club (I was asked to talk about my book club and what we do and how we do it… and as I love talking about my book club…. this is that post 🙂 )

 

One False Move by Harlan Coben (audio book and Coben lOVE!!!)

 

Fun Facts!!!  (Have you played yet?  If not, please do – it is so much fun!!!)

 

The Eyre Report #2 (week two and my journey with Jane Eyre…)

 

 

The books on my radar did not for the most part get read last week so I am sticking with them and only adding…

Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he’s obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis–all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she’s written three unexpected and terrifying words: “Don’t trust Ben.” Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can Christine’s story be trusted? At the heart of S. J. Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep is the petrifying question: How can anyone function when they can’t even trust themselves?

 

Doesn’t that sound good?  Cant wait to start it?

 

 

 

Best friends Sydney, Kelly, Alexia and Raven have seen each other through everything…until three of the girls are dumped by their respective boyfriends…on the same night! Reeling from this, the girls decide to create a list of rules to help them avoid future heartache. But soon they find out that while breaking up is hard to do, sometimes staying broken up is even harder!

I mentioned I have been desperate to find audio…. this is from the library – it is a cute listen, I am about half way through.

 

 

Think about life and God. These goofy ideas and beliefs are assumed by millions to be rock-solid truth . . . until life proves they’re not. The sad result is often a spiritual disaster–confusion, feelings of betrayal, a distrust of Scripture, loss of faith, anger toward both the church and God.

But it doesn’t have to be so. In this delightfully personal and practical book, respected Bible teacher Larry Osborne confronts ten widely held beliefs that are both dumb and dangerous. Beliefs like these:

• Faith can fix anything
• God brings good luck
• Forgiving means forgetting
• Everything happens for a reason
• A godly home guarantees good kids

…and more.

We are reading this for my weekly small group study and I am interested in cracking into this one and discussing with the group.

 

 

I think that is all I am going to add right now.  I have several audio books requested from my library but no telling which will come in first or when… hopefully soon.  I have sever audio on my IPOD but none coming up for my kitchen CD player or the car…

I am curious what you are reading and listening to!  Please add you 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.

Abbi (gatorade635)

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What a crazy week!  Between work, working out, evening commitments Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday…. I hardly read a thing and almost came before you with a goose egg today…

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But… yesterday saved the day and I did finish an audio that I have been working on for a couple of weeks so here is the week of accomplishments (or lack there of):

Awesome video:  Sh** Book Bloggers Say (a must see!)

 

No Comment.  YES!  Comment!!!  (the importance of commenting as part of Reagan’s BBRAW)

 

11-22-63 by Stephen King (a remarkable read – do not miss this one!)

The Eyre Report #1 (my first update to the Jane Eyre self read a long 😀 )

 

So ummm… yeah.  Thats it.  I am reading a couple of books still from last week and have some plans for this week so hopefully back on track.

Sara Beth Riley never dreamt she’d walk straight out of her life.  Actually she’d never dreamt a lot of things that had happened this year … From being kidnapped by her own best friend, to throwing her wedding rings into the Hudson River, to calling an old love in France, to getting inked with said best friend, painting the passionate constellation of these choices into permanence.  But mostly, she could never have dreamt what started it all.  How could it be that her mother’s unexpected death, and the grief which lingered painfully long, turned her into the woman she was finally meant to become?

Sara Beth’s escape begins a summer of change – of herself, of marriage, of the lives of those around her.  In a story that moves from Manhattan to the sea to a quaint New England town, Whole Latte Life looks at friends we never forget, at decisions we linger with, at our attempts to live the lives we love.

OOH sounds good!

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

I love Coben! 

 

 

 

Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.

Never read it… but look forward to it.  This review will come with fun giveaways!

That’s it… keeping it light this week and I have a few to catch up on from last week including my book club read due this Tuesday! 

I am looking forward to seeing what you are reading!  Add your What Are You Reading post to the linky below and I will try to stop by!  😀

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Laura @BurgandyIce

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Mid February already, can you believe it?  My week was busy, but I think they always are…. yet I did get in some book time!  Here is what happened this week:

 

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles (great debut author’s work!)

A chance to win Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children (extended to Tuesday!)

 

Life Is A Trip by Judie Fein (with a giveaway extended to Tuesday!)

 

Bitter Melon by Cara Chow (sometimes, it is good to be mad….)

The Eyre Of My Ways.… yes… I am going there… and yes, I am going in alone.  😯

 

SPIN by Catherine McKenzie ( new release, fun read…. yes, there is a bit of gushing 🙂 )

 

It was a pretty good week, I did not turn the tv on at all and spent my evenings reading until I went to bed.  Probably pretty “Little House On The Prairieish” , but it works for me.  I have another book I will have finished soon and 11-22-63 on audio is going to end this week as well.

So this week here is what I am planning:

When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately, their happiness. This Beautiful Life is a devastating, clear-eyed portrait of modern life that will have readers debating their assumptions about family, morality, and the choices we make in the name of love.

Wow right? 

 

 

 

 

The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To save their business from ruin, thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli—apprentice to and granddaughter of master artisan Teodora Angelini—must bring the family’s old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling her budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother in a quest to build a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. And in the course of discovering her true artistic voice and so much more in la bella Italia, Valentine will be turning her life and the business upside down in ways she never expected.

This is my book club read for February.  I read this a few years back but am excited to read and review again.  After all… its Adriana!  😀

 

 

 

 

This moving, coming-of-age story follows a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town.
Twelve-year-old Cassie narrates the dramatic events that unfold when Jemmie, an African-American girl, and her family move in next door. Despite their parents’ deeply held prejudice against each other’s family-exemplified by the fence Cassie’s father builds between their two houses-the girls find they share more similarities than differences. Mutual interests in reading and running draw them together, and their wariness of each other disappears. But when their parents find out about the burgeoning friendship, each girl is forbidden to see the other. A family crisis and celebration provide opportunities for the families to reach an understanding.

I cant wait to dig into this one!

 

 

 

 

The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this family drama to colourful life through its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day.

I do love Philippa Gregory’s writing and it has been a long time since I indulged in her books!

 

 

 

 

As a big-time New York sports agent, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isn’t just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keep–and others are killing to protect.

I adore Coben… no secret there!

 

 

 

 

So that’s the weeks plan.  I already started the Coben audio – SO GOOD!  And will be looking for more good audio at my library on line later tonight. 

– I will try to stop in and have a cup of coffee with you and see what you are reading 😀

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Belle at Bookbelle

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Well happy February!  Anyone else watch the Super Bowl on Sunday?  I didn’t relaly watch it… but it was (and is as I type this) on the tv like background cheering. 

My week was fair… I read and listened to everything I said I was going to except Wonderstruck.  I couldn’t get into it.  I haven;t given up on it… just sat it aside for other reads….

Here is what did happen here at Book Journey this past week:

 

A Run In With My Nemesis (ugh…. yes she’s back….)

 

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (audio review)

January Recap – what I read, how much, how many pages, how many audio minutes, etc… fun and goofy charts….

The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews (audio review)

 

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euler Wolfe (audio review)

 

Enjoy Every Sandwich with Lee Lipsenthal w/ a GIVEAWAY!!!!

 

The HIGHLIGHT of my week – The Book Club Cook Book came in the mail and oh yeah…. The Bookies (my book club( are in this book twice!!!!  WOO HOO!!!!  Oh yeah… and I read and reviewed it too.  😛

Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick (audio – the third in this set of four books)

 

 

Ok…. my audio week does look impressive – however, Make Lemonade and The Fixer Upper were finished earlier this month, just had not reviewed yet. 🙂 

As for this week…. here is what is on special…. or on the grill…. or up to bat…. or in the hopper….. or next in line….. or, oh you get the picture:

 

When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed Donna Underwood’s father and drove her mother mad. Her own nearly fatal injuries were fixed by alchemy—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. Now seventeen, Donna feels like a freak, doomed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. Only her relationship with her best friend, Navin, is keeping her sane.

But when vicious wood elves abduct Navin, Donna is forced to accept her role in the centuries-old war between human alchemists and these darkest outcasts of Faerie. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous guy with faery blood running through his veins and secrets of his own, Donna races to save Navin—even if it means betraying everything her parents fought to the death to protect.

I’m in a book funk… cant find one that calls to me and nabbed this one off the TBR…. hope it is a win!  😀

 

 

 

 

We ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alalama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded where adults had failed in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. Focusing on four of the original participants who have participated in extensive interviews, We ve Got a Job recounts the astonishing events before, during, and after the Children s March.

This one I started last night… and wow.  I am already fired up and passionate about this book.

 

 

 

 

When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, The Line, it’s the chance of a lifetime. So Kate goes out to celebrate—and shows up still drunk to the interview the next morning. It’s no surprise that she doesn’t get the job, but her performance has convinced the editors that she’d be perfect for an undercover assignment for their gossip rag. All Kate has to do is follow “It Girl” Amber Sheppard into rehab. If she can get the inside scoop—and complete the thirty-day program—they’ll reconsider her for the position at The Line. Kate takes the assignment, but when real friendships start to develop, she has to decide if what she has to gain is worth the price she’ll have to pay.

OOH… this sounds like fun….

 

 

 

As for audio…. I don’t know…. 11-22-63 is still going but it is 30 hours long so I will be here a while… I just started part 2 of 4 parts.  I will finish Perfect Chemistry this week and Bitter Melon.  I will probably need to make a trip to the library because I really have nothing on deck to go into next.

So that’s the week plan 😀  Note I will have a birthday celebration here on Thursday – I do love excuses to celebrate and that usually means a give away (or two) for those of you I celebrate with long distance 😀

Now I am super excited to see what you have on your reading agendas this week (Maybe I will find that audio I am looking for…. 😛 )  Add your What Are You Reading link below where it says click here and I will try very hard to pop in and see you!  😀

 

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