2011 April 03

It’s Monday What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday What Are you Reading is the perfect way for me to begin my week and allows me to focus on what needs to be read and to see what I have or have not accomplished the previous week. I also enjoy discovering new books by visiting other participants blogs.

I Read and Reviewed (click the title to be taken to the review):

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb *Tied for my favourite book of the week.
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman *Tied for my favourite book of the week.
History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky
The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead by Paul Elwork
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin

This week I am planning to read/review: (It is Spring Break, I will not get all of these, but I shall try.)

A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
Reading Lips by Claudia Sternbach
Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted by Bridget Asher
The Shepherd by Ethan Cross
Song of the Silk Road by Mingmei Yip
Field Gray by Philip Kerr
Minding Ben by Victoria Brown
Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Ben

Visit next Monday to see if I managed to accomplish my reading goals.

The Sunday Salon (TSS: 3 April 2011)

Life: Happy April to everyone! I know I mention this each new month, but where is the year going? I want it to slow down, but that does not seem likely.

Family Update: Spring Break began for us on Thursday afternoon and we have been enjoying every moment. On Friday we went to visit, again, the University our oldest will be attending in less than five months. He met with the chair of the department of one of the two programmes he plans to major in. He did visit the other department, but did not have an official appointment scheduled. Despite the odd weather for this time of year we had a lot of fun.

Saturday Night: We started early with games, pizza, movies and movie food. We stayed up late and had an extremely enjoyable evening.

Read and Reviewed: I managed to read and review 9 books, so I am happy. I have exceeded reading and reviewing 100 books in 2011 and I needed the weekend diversions for a little break. If one does not want to wait until Monday to see the entire list for the week, all my reviews are up and as usual I love comments.

Today I will be reading: Song of Slaves in the Desert by Alan Cheuse

Happy Reading and please feel free to leave comments or suggestions.

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