It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 6, 2016

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Back to work after a 3 day weekend babysitting our grandson, so only 4 days of work last week, which was just fine with me. And then hubby went camping this is past weekend so I had most of it to myself. I did a few things around the house but mostly spent my alone time reading. What a wonderful thing that was! The grand-daughters will be starting softball this week so we will stay busy watching them play. Here's hoping you have a wonderful week!

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What I'm currently reading/listening to

Sunshine Beach (Ten Beach Road #4)
by Wendy Wax
I am loving all these beach reads right now!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #1)

by Ransom Riggs
(audiobook)

What I recently finished

The Charm Bracelet
by Viola Shipman
I devoured this one over the weekend! Loved it!!

The Weekenders
by Mary Kay Andrews
Great beach read, with a little bit of mystery thrown in.

What I am going to read next

Leaving Blythe River: A Novel
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
I love this author's stories!

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Release Day: Leaving Blythe River: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Happy Release Day!

Leaving Blythe River

Leaving Blythe River: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde 
Paperback and e-book, 314 pages
Published: May 24th 2016 by Lake Union Publishing

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with an unforgettable story of courage.

Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his father’s only hope.

With the help of three locals—a fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills—he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan’s world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad.

From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of nature revealing human nature—the trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his father—if he finds him alive.

I love this author and everything she writes. Her newest book. Leaving Blythe River, is out today and I have it on my Kindle. I am ready to get lost in another wonderful world that she has created.  

About the author 

I'm the the author of 30 published and forthcoming books.

My newest releases are Ask Him Why, Worthy, The Language of Hoofbeats, Take Me With You , Where We Belong, Walk Me Home, Subway Dancer and Other Stories, When You Were Older, Don’t Let Me Go, When I Found You, Second Hand Heart, The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration From the Author of Pay It Forward, Always Chloe and Other Stories, and 365 Days of Gratitude: Photos from a Beautiful World.

Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition, an age-appropriate edited edition of the original novel, was released by Simon & Schuster in August of ‘14. It is suitable for children as young as eight.

I have two forthcoming new novels due out in 2016 from Lake Union/Amazon Publishing, Leaving Blythe River and Say Goodbye For Now.

Other novels include Jumpstart the World, Becoming Chloe, Love in the Present Tense, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, Chasing Windmills, The Day I Killed James, and Diary of a Witness.

I am co-author, with publishing industry blogger Anne R. Allen, of How to be a Writer in the E-Age: a Self-Help Guide.

Connect with Catherine

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