It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this weekly meme; I love to see what everyone's reading!

It's been a few weeks since I participated. No excuses, really.

Here's what I've read since the last time I participated:

1001 Books for Every Mood 5/5

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 4/5

Still Missing 5/5

I Will Carry You 5/5

Cut in Half 3.5/5

Beneath the Lion's Gaze 4/5

Life, In Spite of Me 3.5/5

The Drowning River 4/5 ~ Christobel Kent

My Grammar and I...Or Should That Be Me? 4/5 ~ Caroline Taggart and J.A. Wines

Awkward Family Photos 4/5 ~ Mike Bender and Doug Chernack

The Longman Guide to Style & Writing on the Internet 5/5 ~ Martha Sammons

Words Fail Me 5/5 ~ Patricia O'Conner

Reading Now:

My Name is Mary Sutter ~ Robin Oliveira (Enjoying this one so far)

Understanding Exposure ~ Bryan Peterson (Great photography book)

Up Next:

All Over the Map ~ Laura Fraser

Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives ~ Thomas French

A Hidden Affair ~ Pam Jenoff

Corduroy Mansions ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I hope I get to them all since they're checked out from the library.

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On a personal (and sad) note, which I'm writing here because my son reads my personal blog but not my book blog, and I just had to share with someone:

My son, who is 16, was at a party Friday night and the next morning, while on Facebook, he found out that one of the kids at the party had committed suicide at 4:00 that morning. My son wasn't close to him, but the neighborhood is small and everyone knows everyone. The high school's graduating class had 25 or 30 kids, and this boy was one of them. He was a football player and wrestler and the cutest, nicest kid. It's tragic, and I hate that these teenagers are getting their first taste of grief, as did I at the same age. You just want to put them in a bubble, don't you?

Thank you, my book friends, for listening :) I do hope you all have a wonderful week of reading. Be sure to give your loved ones an extra big hug today.

Feel free to comment on my books or my news. Didn't mean to bring everyone down!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this weekly meme; I love to see what everyone's reading!

I had a good week or two of reading, I guess because none of the books were very long.

Read (in the last 2 weeks):

• Life of Pi (Fiction)
• Who Killed My Daughter? (Memoir)
• Life is a Verb (NF)
• Disrupting Grace (Memoir)
• I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Memoir)
• The Rough Guide to True Crime (NF)
• The Man Who Talks to Dogs (Memoir) - by Randy Grim, the founder of Stray Rescue
• Writing Down the Bones (NF)
• Where's My Wand? (Memoir)

Reading Now: Nothing, and I'm having the shakes!

Up Next - because I never got to them:

• Middlesex
• The Solace of Leaving Early
• Cypress Point (by Diane Chamberlain)

Or whatever else comes my way :)

It's Monday! What are You Reading? June 7

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this weekly meme. Come join in the fun!

(Yay! Blogger is fixed! Now I can finally join in the fun.)

The BEA hoopla is winding down. Everyone did a great job sharing their experiences with us non-attenders. Because I plan to go next year, my favorite posts were those that gave advice on what they'd do differently next time.

Books Read (last two weeks):

3 Stars

Secrets of Eden ~ Chris Bohjalian
Lost ~ Alice Lichtenstein

4 Stars

Women Food and God ~ Geneen Roth
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ~ Jean Dominique Bauby
Spoken From the Heart ~ Laura Bush
Alex and Me ~ Irene Pepperberg

4.5 Stars

Three Wishes ~ Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, Pamela Ferdinand

5 Stars

Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Got OCD ~ Beth Alison Maloney

Reading Now:

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within ~ Natalie Goldberg

Up Next (these have been on my shelf forever and I'd like to finish them):

Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel
Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The Solace of Leaving Early ~ Haven Kimmel
Cypress Point ~ Diane Chamberlain
Who Killed My Daughter? ~ Lois Duncan

Has everyone recovered from BEA? I know it was tough for me to get out of my "Armchair." lol

Have a great week ya'll :)

It's Monday! What are You Reading? May 10

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this weekly meme. Come and join in the fun!

I didn't participate last week, so these include reviews I was behind on for the past two weeks.

Last two weeks

"I" ~ The Creation of a Serial Killer ~ Jack Olsen

Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova
Making Toast ~ Roger Rosenblatt
The Walk ~ Richard Paul Evans
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like ~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

Pookster and the Practically Perfect Pickle ~ Rhonda Funk

Pookster and the Unloose Tooth ~ Rhonda Funk

Josie's Story ~ Sorrel King

Dry ~ Augusten Burroughs

The Dream Giver ~ Bruce Wilkinson

I Barfed on Mrs. Kenley ~ Jessica Harper

Reading Now

Secrets of Eden ~ Chris Bohjalian

Up Next

Strength in What Remains ~. Tracy Kidder
Where the Love of God Hangs Out ~ Amy Bloom
Impatient with Desire ~ Gabrielle Burton

How about you? Did you get a lot of reading done? Did you enjoy your Mother's Day with your kids, your mom, or your pets? My son (16) and I went out to breakfast. He said his presence was my present. Puhleeeeze.

I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying my iPad. Love. It.

Oh, I forgot...

On My iPad

Cutting for Stone ~ Abraham Verghese

I look forward to seeing what everyone else is reading!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 26

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this weekly meme. Join us!

Last Week:

I'm behind on reviews and need to do them on all the books above AND on Josie's Story. Yikes.

Reading Now:

Up Next:

Have you read any of these? I can't wait to read Making Toast. I've heard good things about it.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 19

Sheila from Book Journey hosts this fun meme; join us if you'd like.

I wasn't "here" last week so I'll catch you up on my reads.

Past two weeks:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Review (highly recommend)
The Little Prisoner - Review
Stiff - Review
Trauma Junkie - Review (Loved this)
Shattered Silence - Review
Birth Day - Review
Jantsen's Gift - Review (highly recommend)

Just finished:

Josie's Story.  Review to come.  Interesting memoir of a mom whose 18-month-old daughter was accidentally burned with hot water because of a faulty hot water heater.  After a 10-day stay in the hospital, she was scheduled to go home when she suddenly had a cardiac arrest and died due to a medical error.  (Very good book)

Currently reading:

Saving Israel:  How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (My husband is Jewish, and I saw this at the library.  Thought I'd check it out.  Not sure if I'll finish.)

Ready for Library Pickup:

Dry by Augusten Burroughs
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like:  A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Metaphors
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
I - The Creation of a Serial Killer by Jack Olsen
I Barfed on Mrs. Kenley by Jessica Harper

I don't know how many I'll finish, but that's what's on the way.

What about you?  Read any of the books I've mentioned above or plan to?  Come on, you know you want to read I Barfed on Mrs. Kenley. I was searching the library website for "I" The Creation of a Serial Killer and that popped up instead.  It made me laugh and I just had to get it :)

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 5

It's Monday! Time for my favorite meme. Sheila from One Person's Journey Through a World of Books hosts this fun meme.

Last week:

Jantsen's Gift (Great book!  Need to review)
Orphan Trains of Missouri
Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills

Reviewed:

This Book is Overdue

Gave up on:

Web of Secrets

Currently Reading:

Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonders of Childbirth (really enjoying this one about birth and babies)

Ready to pick up at library:

Trauma Junkie:  Memoir of an Emergency Flight Nurse
When Dad Killed Mom
Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Little Prisoner:  A Memoir
Shattered Silence:  The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter

Okay, now those really sound like uplifting reads, huh?!  Three of those titles I got because of our host Sheila's Social Justice Challenge post on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse.  Natasha at Maw Books hosts this challenge. Each month they focus on a different theme and I happened to be interested in the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse theme.  I saw this list of books and just couldn't control myself.  My mom is a nurse, and I had worked as a medical secretary since I was 17 and have always been fascinated by medical science, criminology, psychology, psychiatry and sociology.  Does that explain my depressing and morbid list of books?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! Time for my favorite meme. Sheila from One Person's Journey Through a World of Books hosts this, so head over there and link up so we can see what you're reading this week.

Finished:













Read 120 pages and couldn't finish:













Currently reading: (but *this* close to putting down)













Reviews:

The Last Child
Tweak
Still need to review This Book is Overdue, which I really enjoyed.

After trying to read Remarkable Creatures and Beautiful Creatures and not liking either one, I've finally figured out that I don't like fantasy. You know why? Because I don't have an imagination. I don't know what happened to it. Or maybe I never had one.

I guess that's why I like memoirs so much.

So next time I announce that I'm reading anything with the name "creature" in the title, whether it's beautiful, remarkable, or whatever, please cyber slap me.

Up next:

Not sure yet. Whatever suits my fancy, comes in from the library hold list, or calls out to me from Borders..."Use your 40% off coupon on me!"

What's going on in your reading world?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday already?! Sheesh. Another week, another book. J. Kaye hosts this weekly meme so join in the fun!

Last week I read and reviewed:

Saving Cinnamon



Teenagers Suck



Right now I'm reading:

The Unnamed



Next up is:

A Reliable Wife



I can see my library account online and here's what's ready for me to pick up now:

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Inside of a Dog: What dogs see smell and know by Alexandra Horowitz

Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Allison Smith

I'm on the list for five other books that will be coming up in the next week or two:


Sunflowers


The Happiness Project


Making Rounds with Oscar


A Million Miles in a Thousand Years


A Friend of the Family

What am I doing on my computer? I need to go READ!


Have you read or heard of any of these books?


Oh, by the way, I lost my Followers widget. If you were a Follower before, you'll need to re-follow. The previous link no longer works. Sorry about that!

It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

This meme hosted by J. Kaye's Book Blog where we post about what we've read, what we're currently reading, and what we plan to read is my favorite because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE seeing what everyone's reading. I'm stealing my post from yesterday's Sunday Salon because it shows exactly what's going on in my world of reading.

Books read and reviewed:

Cowboy and Wills



Notes Left Behind



Not Lost Forever



Books I've read and need to review:

Love Heels: Individual stories about support dogs through Canine Companions for Independence.



The Kids Are All Right: True story about a family of four kids whose father is killed in a car accident and the mother dies of cancer months later.



Angel Animals: Inspirational stories from people where a pet or other animal made a significant difference in their lives.



5th Horseman: About a mystery killer at a hospital who puts buttons on the eyes of people after they are dead.



The Tall Book: Non-fiction book written by a 6'3" woman; everything you ever wanted to know about being tall. (I'm 5'10" and my 16-year-old son is 6'8")




Just Listen: Non-fiction book that tells the secret to getting through to anyone, in business and relationships.



This Lovely Life: Memoir written by a mom who delivered twins at 24 weeks; one of them died after 4 days and the other one was blind and had severe disabilities. Despite her clear wishes that the doctors not go to heroic efforts to resuscitate the babies at birth, they did so anyway, and she tells of her resentment and experience of raising a severely disabled child.



And today I'm going to start reading:

Saving Cinnamon: About a puppy found on a military base.



AND as of yesterday I have a 16-year-old! Which means he'll get his driver's license. Which means I won't have to drive him everywhere. Which means....

You got it, I'll have more time to read! Woot, woot!

How about all you? What's going on in your reading world?