It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
June 17, 2013 36 Comments
“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what we’ve read the past week and are planning to read next.
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The week
After a week on holiday in the sun, I’ve spend last week at home, in the sun, rain, cold and heat. The weather is going all over the place. It’s going to be warm but wet this week. Well, we’ll see.
I had a bookish evening out to The Hague, where the UK writer Nathan Filer was interviewed by a Dutch writer, Auke Hulst. I managed to finish Filer’s book, The Shock of the Fall, in the train on my way to the event. It was good fun to hear him talk about the book and the writing process.
On Saturday it was my oldest son’s 16 birthday and I defected to a personal development course. I don’t think he missed me and in the evening we had a nice Saturday Evening In, watching The Voice UK, eating potato chips, drinking cola, and all the rest.
I’ve decided to re-start my goal of walking some distance every day – I did this a while ago but I somehow got out of the habit. So, come rain or shine, Leeswammes will be out there!
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Books I finished in the last week: 4 and a DNF
Star ratings: 4.5 stars, 5 stars, 4.5 stars, 5 stars, not rated.
Books I’m reading & planning to read
![De prins van Filettino [The Prince of Filletino] by Geert Kimpen](https://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/filettino.jpg "De prins van Filettino [The Prince of Filletino] by Geert Kimpen")
![Het grijze gebied [The Gray Area] by Goran Tribuson](https://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/grijzegebied.jpg "Het grijze gebied [The Gray Area] by Goran Tribuson")
Reviews
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver. A woman invites her middle-aged brother to her home and discovers he has become extremely fat in the time they haven’t seen each other. 4.5 stars
The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs. A city woman discovers she has family in a rural area who want her to get to know them. 4 stars
Een tijdelijke vertelling [A Tale for the Time Being] by Ruth Ozeki. A Japanese-American woman finds the diary of a Japanese teenage girl and is intrigued. 4.5 stars
Het laatste land [The Last Land] by Threes Anna. An island is disconnected from the mainland and tries to survive as best as possible. 5 stars
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That’s it!
What are you reading this week?
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I’m reading Is that a fish in your ear by David Bellos & wheel with a single spoke & other poems by Nichita Stanescu . Glad your holiday went well. Texting this from a train station shelter whilst outside it’s absolutely chucking it down 🙂
Gary, hope today the weather is better. Do you read while waiting for the train?
I’ve heard of David Bellos before (probably via you). Happy reading!
I’m so glad you like The Dog Stars. I loved that book when I read it a while back.
Good to hear that The Dog Stars is also a book that you enjoyed, Marleen. I bought it a month or so ago but couldn’t wait any longer.
I will be curious to see what you think about the Atkinson Life After Life.
I’m looking forward to the Literary Blog Hop! Thanks for hosting this!
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Glad to have you in the blog hop, Debnance! I’m sure it’s going to be a fun one again.
I am going to be reading Perfect. I liked her other book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Fanficfan, Perfect is very different from Harold Fry, but a very good read.
Nice mix of reads. Enjoy.
Thanks, Mystica.
I’m glad to hear you liked The Dog Stars — I have yet to read it but the author will be attending Booktopia in September where I will also be!
Have a great week.
You must read the book beforehand, Suzanne. It’s a great read – how nice that you’ll be meeting the author!
I have had my eye on The Apple Orchard….hope you enjoy all of your books! I need to get back into walking, too!
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Laurel-Rain, I think The Apple Orchard is your sort of book..
Wow…great line up. I want to read The Apple Orchard. Going to check out your review.
Perfect looks good too.
ENJOY your week.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
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Thanks, Elizabeth.
Our weather has been very volatile too. the sun comes out and then a few minutes later there are thunderstorms. It does make staying inside and reading more desirable. Come see my Monday Report here. Happy reading!
Reading is one of those things you can do anywhere, come rain or shine. Hope you get better weather, though, Kathy!
I have to ask, who do you think’s going to win The Voice? My ‘money’ is on Leah.
Charlie, I think you might be right. At least, Leah has the best / most special voice.
LIfe after Life and Big Brother are two books I’m hoping to get to this summer. So glad to see high ratings for A Tale for the Time Being. Happy reading.
Yes, I’m an Ozeki fan, Vasilly. You too?
I am very interested in the new book by Rachel Joyce, I am curious to see how you like it. I loved her first book, so I have high hopes.
Have a great reading week, kind regards,
This new book by Rachel Joyce is very different, Bettina. It’s maybe more literary, a lot less happens, I’d say. But a very good read.
Great looking books- I want to read The Apple Orchard! I wish I could do the blog hop, but have a crazy weekend/week coming up- hope it goes great!!
Hope you have a good weekend, Turn the Pages!
I like the looks of the new Rachel Joyce book but as her previous one is still on my TBR I will not add it just now.
I keep eying De Prins van Filettino in the bookstore so am really curious what you have to say about that one.
Have a great week!
Ciska, De Prins van Filettino is fun! I’ve read about 100 pages and have a smile on my face a lot of the time.
I need to go walking and running too but I’ll have to get myself to wake up earlier first. The heat is my enemy and boy, how scorching hot it is even at 7 in the morning!
Athira, that doesn’t sound nice, scorching heat at 7am! Maybe the summer is a good time to work out in the gym (with air conditioning!).
Life After life sounds like it would be a different interesting read. Hope you enjoy!
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Thanks, Jamie.
I haven’t yet seen that cover of Life After Life. I like it! I really want to read the book but will probably wait until it is out in paperback and some of the hype dies down. Enjoy!!
Thanks, Trish. Yes, there is a bit of a hype about the book. I want to read it because it appeals to me, so I try to ignore the hype.
I’m really interested to see what you think of life after life
Me too, Shelleyrae. It’s my one-but-next book on the to-read list. 🙂