It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 13, 2017

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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Not much happened out of the ordinary in my world this past week, just lots of awesome books on my TBR list. I wish I could just read all the time, darn day job! 😏 When there's nothing much to talk about, we talk about the weather, right? It got up in the 50s last Friday and it'll be in the 40s-50s this upcoming week. This is unseasonably warm for our area, this time of year. Hubby is bummed because that probably means the end of ice fishing for this year. I am excited cause I love it when the weather gets warm enough so I can sit on our patio with a good book. Where is your favorite place to read? 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a great week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading/listening to

I See You
by Clare Mackintosh


Walking Sam 
by Deanna Lynn Sletten
(audio-book)
I loved this when I read it. Read my thoughts here. Now I get a chance to listen to it.

Spinning the Moon
by Karen White
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman 
Loved it! Our book club will be discussing it this week.

Runes (Runes #1)

by Ednah Walters 

(audio-book)

Lucretia and the Kroons

by Victor LaValle

A very peculiar story. Read my thoughts here. 

What I am going to read next


A Fall of Marigolds
by Susan Meissner

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle ~ My Thoughts

Lucretia and the Kroons

Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle
ebook, 104 pages
Published July 23rd 2012 by Spiegel & Grau

Lucretia’s best friend and upstairs neighbor Sunny—a sweet pitbull of a kid, even as she struggles with a mysterious illness—has gone missing. The only way to get her back is for Lucretia to climb the rickety fire escape of their Queens tenement and crawl through the window of apartment 6D, portal to a vast shadowland of missing kids ruled by a nightmarish family of mutants whose designs on the children are unknown. Her search for Sunny takes Lucretia through a dark fantasyland where she finds lush forests growing from concrete, pigeon-winged rodents, and haunted playgrounds. Her quest ultimately forces her to confront the most frightening specter of all: losing, forever, the thing you love the most.

Lucretia and the Kroons is a dazzlingly imaginative adventure story and a moving exploration of the power of friendship and the terror of loss. This all-new novella serves as the perfect companion piece to The Devil in Silver, a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror that continues the story of Lucretia.

   

My thoughts about Lucretia and the Kroons ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First line—"Most twelve-year-olds don't know much about death, and that's the way it should be. But a handful get the knowledge too soon.' 

Lucretia and the Kroons is a peculiar book and I mean that in a good way. Every once in awhile, I am drawn to books that stretch my imagination and this author has definitely done that. Lucretia embarks on a wonderful, but odd adventure to find her best friend. She encounters all sorts of amazing and weird things along the way as she tries to save Sunny.

This was a treat to read and definitely a story that I won't soon forget. I may just have to read The Devil in Silver to find out more about Lucretia and to get another taste of this author's work.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and am voluntarily reviewing it.

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About the Author

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, three novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, and The Devil in Silver, and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.

He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.

He can be kind of hard to reach, but he still loves you.

Connect with Victor

Website | Goodreads

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 6, 2017

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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Whew! What a busy week and weekend. We left on Friday morning to travel to Nebraska. We wanted to introduce the youngest member of our family to the matriarch of our family. We got back on Sunday just in time to makes a few dips and head to a Super Bowl party. (I watch for the commercials.) 😁 It was a good game though too. 🏈 Now it's back to work. 

Jean (85) & her 16th great-grandchild, Lilliana Jean (1 month)

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a great week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading/listening to

Lucretia and the Kroons

by Victor LaValle

Working through my NetGalley TBR list. My thoughts will be posted soon.

Runes (Runes #1)
by Ednah Walters 
(audio-book)

Spinning the Moon
by Karen White
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

The Runaway Midwife: A Novel
by Patricia Harman 
Wonderful! My thoughts will be posted later today.

Walk Into Silence (Detective Jo Larsen #1)

by Susan McBride
Great start to what should be a great series. Read my thoughts here.

What I am going to read next


A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman 
My next book club pick. I have heard such great things about this book.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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