It's Monday! What Are You Reading? October 31, 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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Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween! I don't know what you are doing for Halloween but we will be waiting at home for the grandkiddos to come over in their cute, cute costumes. They 'trick' us by running from the front door to the back door several times—more candy that way. Ha! But we love it!

I have been so busy, especially in my reading life. I seemed to have overcommitted myself as far a reading goes and have spent October trying to get all the wonderful books in. My favorite authors need to slow down their writing so I can catch up! I had last Wednesday off work since I had to work on Saturday and I literally spent the whole day reading. Whew! I am feeling better about my reading world now though.  

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

What I'm currently reading/listening to

The Murder Game
by Julie Apple (aka Catherine McKenzie)

Two from Isaac's House: A Story of Promises
by Normandie Fischer 
(audiobook)
I need to take a road trip so I can really get into this wonderful story.

What I recently finished

Come This Way
by Michelle Schlicher
Love this author's stories! My thoughts will be posted later this week.


Orphan Number 8
by Kim van Alkemade 
Book club pick, we had a great discussion.


The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
Another book club pick. Check out my giveaway HERE.

Three & Out (Queen of the League #3)
by Laura Chapman
Love this series! Check out my thoughts HERE. 

What I am going to read next


The Christmas Surprise (A Holiday Novella)
by Samantha March

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Book Spotlight Giveaway! The Round House by Louise Erdrich

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. And sometimes, I find great books on Amazon that I just love to share with you.

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This week I am sharing a copy of The Round House by Louise Erdrich. My book club read it this month and we had a very good discussion about it. It takes place around the area where we live and deals with the Native American population, which is a huge part of the culture of South Dakota. This was a very interesting story and I am happy to share it with one of you. 

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

The Round House

The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Hardcover, 323 pages
Published October 2nd 2012 by HarperCollins

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.

About the author

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

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