It's Monday! What Are You Reading? March 4, 2019

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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I feel like a broken record—more snow, more cold. And it looks like we have another storm, with more snow, coming this weekend. I'm starting to feel really home-bound. It's good for my reading life though, so I guess I shouldn't complain but I miss seeing my family. 

Hubby is actually building an igloo for the grandkids off of the patio with the huge pile of snow we have out there. He thinks they'll have fun in it. I'm not really a cold weather, outdoorsy type so it just looks COLD to me. How about you—love or hate the cold and snow? 

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

What I'm currently reading

The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer 

Pub date 3/19


Family Secrets
(Whispering Pines Mystery #1)
by Shawn McGuire 

(audio-book)

What I recently finished

Emily, Gone

by Bette Lee Crosby

Pub date 4/30

Random Acts of Kindness
by Dete Meserve and Rachel Greco
Pub date 3/26
Dete posts uplifting, positive, and kind acts on her Facebook page Random Acts of Kindness Book.

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)
Check out my giveaway for a chance to win this one!

The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins

What I am going to read next

Waiting for Fitz
by Spencer Hyde
Pub date 3/5

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Book Spotlight Giveaway! Ripper by Isabel Allende

I have sooooo many books! The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy these treasures.

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I just finished listening to this audio-book and it was so good! Isabel Allende is such a great writer and Ripper is a captivating, very interesting story. And the narrator does an amazing job with the story and all of the characters. I'm excited to share it with one of you. 

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

Ripper

Ripper by Isabel Allende
Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
CD audio-book

Published January 28th 2014 by HarperAudio

The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda's father, she's reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want her-Alan, the wealthy scion of one of San Francisco's elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred former Navy SEAL.

While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother's disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother's life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before it's too late.

 

About the author

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

Connect with Isabel

Website | Goodreads | Facebook | Twitter 

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 25, 2019

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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A repeat of last week—snow, and more snow. Plus a blizzard on Sunday. Holy cow, the wind! Hubby and I went and got groceries Sunday morning then we stayed inside the rest of the day. 

We ended up with company for most of the weekend, with our son and his son spending Saturday afternoon with us. And then we ended up watching that same 4 year old grandson for most of Sunday. So it was a busy weekend with not much reading or blogging progress. Oh well, we were making memories, right? 

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

What I'm currently reading

The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
This is a reread for me, it's this month's book club pick.

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)


Family Secrets
(Whispering Pines Mystery #1)
by Shawn McGuire 

(audio-book)
I read another series by this author, which was completely different from this one. I'm enjoying this one too.

What I recently finished

The Southern Side of Paradise

(Peachtree Bluff #3)

by Kristy Woodson Harvey 

Pub date 5/7

I love this author and have read everything she's written. And I love this series!

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)
Love this series! Ready to move on to book #10.

The Liar's Child
by Carla Buckley
Pub date 3/12


Until the Day I Die
by Emily Carpenter 
Pub date 3/12

What I am going to read next

Random Acts of Kindness
by Dete Meserve and Rachel Greco
Pub date 3/26
Another author that I just love and read everything she writes. She constantly posts uplifting, positive, and kind acts on her Facebook page Random Acts of Kindness Book. I know I'm going to love this book.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 18, 2019

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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Snow, more snow. And wind and cold. That seems to be our lives right now. Our plans for the weekend with some of the kids and grandkiddos had to be scraped because of the winter weather. Ugh! 

We did make it over to our daughter's house here in town yesterday for some wonderful chili and family time. So we did get to see some of the kids and grands, just not the ones from out of town that we had planned on seeing.  

I'm enjoying a three day weekend because of President's Day so hopefully I can sit under a blanket today and get some reading in today. Bliss! 

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

What I'm currently reading

The Liar's Child
by Carla Buckley
Pub date 3/12

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)

What I recently finished


Until the Day I Die
by Emily Carpenter 
Pub date 3/12

What I am going to read next

The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
This will be a reread for me, it's this month's book club pick.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 11, 2019

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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I am sooooo ready for winter to be over. It has been so blasted cold here and the snow is endless. We have a huge pile in our parking lot that will be there until July, I'm sure. 😉 Okay, now I'll stop complaining about the weather, for a little while anyway. 

On the reading side of my life, I stayed up way too late last night finishing The Beautiful Strangers (pub date 3/5), but I just had to get to the end. It is such a wonderful story! And then it's always exciting to dive into the next book on my list. 

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

What I'm currently reading

How to Eat a Cupcake
by Meg Donohue

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

The Beautiful Strangers
by Camille Di Maio
Pub date 3/5

The Child Garden
by Catriona McPherson

What I am going to read next

Until the Day I Die
by Emily Carpenter 
Pub date 3/12

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? February 4, 2019

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

What I'm currently reading

The Edge of Normal
(Reeve LeClaire #1)
by Carla Norton

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

The Child Garden
by Catriona McPherson

The Curiosities

by Susan Gloss

Pub date 2/5

What I am going to read next

The Beautiful Strangers
by Camille Di Maio
Pub date 3/5

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? January 28, 2019

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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Brrrrr! Baby, It's Cold Outside! Our temps have taken a polar plunge with the low predicted to be -33 on Tuesday night. I hope my poor car will start. Oh, wait! If it doesn't, maybe I'll have to stay home all day..... and read. Yes! What's the weather like where you're at? 

I was supposed to travel to southern Nebraska for my brother's retirement party but after looking at the forecast for the weekend we decided not to go. I was sorry to miss it but was so glad we stayed home. It snowed all day Sunday with heavy winds. It would have been tough to get back. I told him we could celebrate his retirement this summer instead. 😉 

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

What I'm currently reading

The Curiosities

by Susan Gloss

Pub date 2/5

Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

Forget You Know Me
by Jessica Strawser
Pub date 2/5

America Deconstructed

by Chaithanya Sohan

Pub date 2/12

What I am going to read next

The Child Garden
by Catriona McPherson

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? January 21, 2019

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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This post is two weeks worth of reading because last Monday we were in Arizona for our nephew's wedding and I wasn't able to post. We had a great time, the weather was beautiful, bit it was really hard to come back to single digit temps. Brrrrrr.  

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

What I'm currently reading

America Deconstructed

by Chaithanya Sohan

Pub date 2/12

This is a different type of read for me but it sounds very interesting.

Gone Haunting in Deadwood
(Deadwood #9)
by Ann Charles
(audio-book)
I absolutely love this series!


Ripper

by Isabel Allende 
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

Paper Wife

by Laila Ibrahim

What an amazing story!

Feral-LY Funny Freakshow

(AC Silly Circus Mystery Series Book 1)

by Ann Charles

This is book #1 in a different series by one of my favorite authors.

What's Left Between Us: A Pearl Girls Novel

by Gina Heron

This was an impulse read after seeing another reader gushing about it. It's awesome! 

What's Your Poison

by Marie Fostino

What I am going to read next

Forget You Know Me
by Jessica Strawser
Pub date 2/5

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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