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 London Train by Tessa Hadley
• Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner
• Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
• 212 by Alafair Burke
• The Storm At The Door by Stefan Merrill Block
• The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair

This week I am planning to read/review:

• The Beginners by Rebecca Wolff
• South of Superior by Ellen Airgood
• The Long Journey Home by Margaret Robison
• Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth
• Down From Cascom Mountain by Ann Joslin Williams
• The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
• The Russian Affair by Michael Wallner

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 Katyn Order by Douglas W Jacobson
• The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
• Long Drive Home by Will Allison
• Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
• Elizabeth I by Margaret George *favourite book this week
• Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende 
• Hybrid by Brian O’Grady

This week I am planning to read/review: (although it is Armchair BEA 2011 Week!)

• The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore
• Skinny by Diane Spechler
• Island Girl by Lynda Simmons
• The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker
• The Beach Trees by Karen White
• Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax
• The Ninth Wife by Amy Stolls
• Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
• The Priest’s Graveyard by Ted Dekker

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):

• When Did I Get Like This? by Amy Wilson
• The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
• The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
• Far to Go by Alison Pick
• Buried Prey by John Sandford *tied for favourite book this week
• Hotel No Tell by Daphne Uviller 
• A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block tied for favourite book this week
• The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark

This week I am planning to read/review:

• The Katyn Order by Douglas W Jacobson
• The White Devil by Justin Evans
• Long Drive Home by Will Anderson
• The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
• Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
• Elizabeth I by Margaret George
• Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende
• Hybrid by Brian O’Grady
• At the Devil’s Table by William C. Rempel

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 Descent of Man by Kevin Desinger  *tied for favourite book this week
• The 17 Day Diet by Mike Moreno
• Here, Home, Hope by Kaira Rouda
• Joe DiMaggio by Jerome Charyn
• Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon 
• Wrecker by Summer Wood
• You Believers by Jane Bradley *tied for favourite book this week
• The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
• A Song For My Mother by Kate Martin
• Mothers & Daughters by Rae Meadows

This week I am planning to read/review:

• When Did I Get Like This? by Amy Wilson
• The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
• The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
• Far to Go by Alison Pick
• Small Memories by Jose Saramago
• Buried Prey by John Sandford
• A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block
• The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
• Hotel No Tell by Daphne Uviller

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):

• Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• Galore by Michael Crummey
• Planting Dandelions by Kyran Pittman
• The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack
• The Midwife’s Confession by Diane Chamberlain * favourite book this week
• Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder -Trailer preview for the 1st of June book release
• The Bayou Trilogy by John Woodrell
• Dead of Wynter by Spencer Seidel

This week I am planning to read/review: (Given what is happening this month, there is not a chance I will make it through this list, yet I am trying to be optimistic.)

• The Descent of Man by Kevin Desinger
• Cracks by Sheila Kohler
• You Believers by Jane Bradley
• Here, Home, Hope by Kaira Rouda
• Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
• Wrecker by Summer Wood
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemon
• The Rebellion on Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
• A Song For My Mother by Kat Martin
• Mothers & Daughters by Rae Meadows