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

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 Art of Forgetting by Camille Noe Pagán
• Faith by Jennifer Haigh
• Don’t Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon
• In the Belly of Jonah by Sandra Brannan 
• So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison *favourite book of the week
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• Lot’s Return to Sodom by Sandra Brannan
• The Last Letter by Kathleen Shoop
• Queen of the Summer Stars by Persia Woolley

This week I am planning to read/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
• For Sale By Owner by Kelcey Parker