It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
August 20, 2012 29 Comments
“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next.
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Books I finished in the last week: 4
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Miss Me When I’m Gone by Emily Arsenault. A woman is researching the manuscript of the book her friend, who died recently, was working on. Was her death really an accident? 3.5 stars
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. A book in the series about The Cemetry of Forgotten Books. We learn all about Fermín Romero de Torres’ past. 4.5 stars
De Comedy Club van Eva Posthuma de Boer [review in Dutch]. Five people (two couples and a student) who often meet at the Comedy Club, have bigger goals in life and are working towards them. Not all successfully. 4 stars
Alles is altijd fictie [Everything is Always Fiction] by Daphne Huisden [Dutch]. A young woman tries to get away from her suffocating mother and meets some socially unsuccessful men when she moves out. 4 stars
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![Reizen met Charley [Travels with Charley] by John Steinbeck](http://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/charley.jpg "Reizen met Charley [Travels with Charley] by John Steinbeck")
Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag. A judge is attacked and there are a few possible suspects, one of them her own husband. When a prisoner is on the loose and a police officer becomes obsessed with the case, things get really scary for the judge. 4 stars
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. A time machine repairman is stuck in a time loop. He is reading a book that he wrote in the future to try and find a way out. 3.5 stars
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck [review is in Dutch]. John Steinbeck travelled through America in the 1960s and this book is about the people he encounters along the way. He also notices how America is changing. 4 stars
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That’s it!
What are you reading this week?
Another exciting list of books here!
Indeed, Mystica! Thanks for stopping by.
You have been kinda busy again. I can’t get anything done in this heat either. I absolutely hate it. Hopefully it will be fall soon.
Today it’s better already here, Rikki. At least 6 or 8 degrees cooler. I don’t like this heat either. I like a gentle 25C all summer, please!
I fell in love with Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind and I always use a quote from the book about reading becoming an intimate art and about books being a reflection of what you already have inside you. This one, “Prisoner of Heaven” seems like another title I’d enjoy reading. Thanks for sharing this, Lee.
Myra, if you loved The Shadow of the Wind you definitely have to read this one. The story isn’t quite as strong but the writing is exquisite.
I start back to school/work this week. My reading will probably suffer.
Here’s my It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? I hope you will stop by!
Hope your first week at school will be a good one, Debnance!
You seem to have had a productive week reading. Is The Descendents the novel that was adapted into a movie? Wondering about that (and looking forward to your review). This week I’ll be trying to finish Jane Austen’s Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon and Mansfield Park this week for Adam’s Austen in August event.
I can’t believe it’s time for school again – summer passed quickly. I’m hoping to find a groove again. Around October 1 my work life will slow from three FULL time jobs to 1.5…
I have read a book similar to the first one listed about a manuscript and a death – unfortunately I don’t remember the title but I didn’t love it.
Have a wonderful week! I will be back to catch on your life posts (or top of your weekly updates). Did you post about your holiday to Spain?
Mari, glad your working life will slow down to almost normal! I don’t know how you do it all.
I haven’t posted about Spain yet as I didn’t have the pictures – half are on my husband’s phone (which he’s passed on to me now) and the others are on my son’s camera (which I haven’t got yet). I want to do just an impressions post, we didn’t do enough to make it an adventurous read.
You didn’t do a lot? Hmmph – you were much more productive than I was last week — and I don’t have children.
Suzanne, the kids spent most of their time either playing computer games or with the canoe out on the lake so they don’t cause me a lot of work. The advantage of having teenagers. Most work is to get them to do something like clean up their room or get dressed (at 12noon) – that takes up a lot of my energy!
We’re getting ready for back to school here. Two more weeks for us. That’s a great list of books, I’m going to go look into some of them.
Shan, isn’t it a pity summer is almost over? Hope you have 2 more great weeks.
I can’t wait to read your thoughts on The Descendants. I watched the movie and really enjoyed it. Happy reading.
Hard to believe it’s back to school time already but the neighborhood schools here are back in session too. I’m not familiar with the books you’re reading this week, except for The Descendants. I want to see that movie.
Leslie, I think I missed the movie when it was here – I don’t know, but I think it’s been and gone. In the cinemas at least. DVD is always an option!
It’s come and gone here too. I must be getting old, I watch most of the movies on DVD now rather than go to the movie theater.
I often plan to do that, Leslie, then forget all about the movie. But I sometimes go to a kind of movie club where they have the best of the recent movies.
I read How to Be a Woman at the beginning of the year and pretty much fell in love with Caitlin Moran. I hope you like it as much as I did.
Lucy, I’m not really impressed with *How to be a Woman*, so far, I’m about 1/3 in. We’ll see…
Aww that’s a shame. I remember it starting a little slowly but once I got into it I really got into it.
Have a lovely reading week
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How To Be a Woman is a book I’ve had my eye on for a while. I hope you enjoy it!
Have a great week of reading!
Jennifer, *How to be a Woman* may not be for me, I fear. I haven’t finished and I’m not planning to give up… yet, but it’s not as good as I’d hoped.
You got some good reading done. We start school here next week too. Maybe I should shovel out the garage like you did. It sure needs it!
Kristen, the garage was less work than I expected and totally worth it. It’s so roomy now! Good luck if you’re going to tackle it.
Looks like you have some great reads upcoming
Have a great reading week!
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