You'd think a week away would translate into some serious reading and reviewing time, wouldn't you? Not in this case. The week started with two 9 hour driving days back to back and then culminated in the terrible news that my grandmother is in the hospital after a serious stroke. This meme is hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through a World of Books.Books I completed this week are:
Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye
The Miner's Daughter by Alice Duncan
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard Morais
Miss You Most of All by Elizabeth Bass
Bookmarks are still living in the middle of:
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Great Lakes Nature by Mary Blocksma (this is going to take me all year as I read her year's entries on the corresponding days of this year)
The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jackie Lyden
How to Mellify a Corpse by Vicki Leon
The Laments by George Hagen
Tuesday Tells It Slant by Holly Christine
Reviews posted this week:
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Free to a Good Home by Eve Marie Mont
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Books still needing to have reviews written (as opposed to the ones that are simply awaiting posting):
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Bite Me by Christopher Moore
Old World Daughter, New World Mother by Maria Laurino
South Beach Sizzle by Suzanne Weyn and Diana Gonzalez
Look at Me Now by Thomas Hubschman
Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog
The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle
A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi" by Chloe Rhodes
Still Love in Strange Places by Beth Kephart
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
The Last Rendevous by Anne Plantagenet
Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye
The Miner's Daughter by Alice Duncan
Miss You Most of All by Elizabeth Bass
Looking forward to reading your review of Molly Fox. Hope your grandmother feels better.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of books on the go - makes me feel better that I'm not the only one! My Monday is here
ReplyDeleteYou read a lot! Happy reading!
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So sorry to hear about your grandmother!
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of books going - I do that too and then need like two weeks to get them all finished :)
You still managed to get a fair amount of reading done, by the look of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about your grandmother.
Take care.