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):

• The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
• Snapped by Laura Griffin
• Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant 
• Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
• In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda *Favourite of the week
• Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo
• Creep by Jennifer Hillier
• An Accidental Mother by Katherine Anne Kindred

This week I am planning to read/review:

• Claim of Innocence by Laura Caldwell
  
• Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye
  
• Incognito by Gregory Murphy
• Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger
• The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
• The Legacy by Katherine Webb
• America’s Most Wanted Recipes by Ron Douglas
• Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah

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):

• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
• Remember Me by Cheryl Robinson
• The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah *Favourite of the week
• The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
  
• Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
• Picking Bones from Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
• Flesh and Grass by Libby Cone
• To the Moon and Back by Jill Mansell

This week I am planning to read/review:

• The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
  
• Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
  
• Snapped by Laura Griffin
• Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwartz
• In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
• Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah
• Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo
• Creep by Jennifer Hillier

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):

• The Rules of the Tunnel by Ned Zeman
• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield *Favourite of the week
• This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
  
• The Sixes by Kate White
• Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
  
• Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz
• The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry

This week I am planning to read/review:

• What Language Is by John McWhorter
• Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
• The Glitter Scene by Monika Fagerholm
• Adam & Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
• The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam

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):

• Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith (Southern fiction, an exquisite collection of short stories NOT a P&P remake).
• Reign of Madness by Lynn Cullen
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles *Favourite book of the week
  
• Whispers in the Sand by Barbara Erskine
• Beautiful Unbroken by Mary Jane Nealon
• The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
• Flashback by Dan Simmons
• Blood Trust by Eric Van Lustbader

This week I am planning to read/review:

• The Rules of the Tunnel by Ned Zeman
• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
• This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
• The Sixes by Kate White
• Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
• Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz
• The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry

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):

• The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
• Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley
• Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
• In Her Wake by Nancy Rappaport
• Bloodline by Mark Billingham
• A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano *Favourite book of the week
• A Gentleman Never Tells by Amelia Grey

This week I am planning to read/review:

• Bring It Close by Helen Hollick
• One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
• Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
• The Oriental Wife by Evelyn Toynton
• Original Sin by Beth McMullen
• French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
• Something for Nothing by David Anthony

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):

• The Russian Affair by Michael Wallner
• South of Superior by Ellen Airgood
• Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth
• The Long Journey Home by Margaret Robison
• Down From Cascom Mountain by Ann Joslin Williams

This week I am planning to read/review:

• Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
• Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan
• The Secret Lives of the Four Wives by Lola Shoneyin
• The Orphan Sister by Gwendolen Gross
• Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
• First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
• Dominance by Will Lavender