It's Monday, What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! This meme by Kathryn at The Book Date
High Holidays are winding down and I am beginning to get a bit of time to read and am trying to get caught up but here is what I have read, am reading, and hopefully will read!
WHAT I READ...
I am never not in the mood for a mystery, especially when it includes Hercule Poirot!
THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES BY CJ COOKE
This was such a great start to spooky season reading! Such a great gothic book.
You can find my review here
BE MY GHOST BY CAROL J PERRY
Absolutely loved this cute cozy mystery about a girl inheriting a haunted inn
WHAT I AM READING
Hardcover, 384 pages
Expected publication: September 28th 2021 by Tordotcom
Still reading and listening to this one, but will finish it up this week. I have about 3 hours left on the audio and with ironing and housework that will be easy to get through.
THE BALLERINAS BY RACHEL KAPELKE-DALE
Hardcover, 304 pages
Expected publication: December 7th 2021 by St. Martin's Press
Having spent my childhood in toe shoes I was excited to receive this book. Just started it so still have a way to go with it. I am also reading it at night on my kindle so it will probably be with me the rest of the month.
SUMMARY:
Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart the next phase of her career––and, she hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed while she's been away...and some secrets can't stay buried forever.
Moving between the trio's adolescent years and the present day, The Ballerinas explores the complexities of female friendship, the dark drive towards physical perfection in the name of artistic expression, the double-edged sword of ambition and passion, and the sublimated rage that so many women hold inside––all culminating in a twist you won't see coming, with magnetic characters you won't soon forget.
Moving between the trio's adolescent years and the present day, The Ballerinas explores the complexities of female friendship, the dark drive towards physical perfection in the name of artistic expression, the double-edged sword of ambition and passion, and the sublimated rage that so many women hold inside––all culminating in a twist you won't see coming, with magnetic characters you won't soon forget.
A LITTLE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT BY SHEILA ROBERTS
Paperback, 320 pages
Expected publication: September 28th 2021 by MIRA
It is never too early to start some holiday reading. I am actually starting this one this evening.
SUMMARY:
Single mom Lexie Bell hopes to make this first Christmas in their new home special for her six-year-old son, Brock. Festive lights and homemade fudge, check. Friendly neighbors? Uh, no. The reclusive widower next door is more grinchy than nice. But maybe he just needs a reminder of what matters most. At least sharing some holiday cheer with him will distract her from her own lack of romance…
Stanley Mann lost his Christmas spirit when he lost his wife and he sees no point in looking for it. Until she shows up in his dreams and informs him it’s time to ditch his scroogey attitude. Stanley digs in his heels, but she’s determined to haunt him until he wakes up and rediscovers the joys of the season. He can start by being a little more neighborly to the single mom next door. In spite of his protests, he’s soon making snowmen and decorating Christmas trees. How will it all end?
Stanley Mann lost his Christmas spirit when he lost his wife and he sees no point in looking for it. Until she shows up in his dreams and informs him it’s time to ditch his scroogey attitude. Stanley digs in his heels, but she’s determined to haunt him until he wakes up and rediscovers the joys of the season. He can start by being a little more neighborly to the single mom next door. In spite of his protests, he’s soon making snowmen and decorating Christmas trees. How will it all end?
WHAT IS NEXT...
Hardcover, 336 pages
Expected publication: October 12th 2021 by Crooked Lane Books
I have both the ARC and the audio for this so I am hoping it will go quickly. As soon as I finish up Summer Son's I will be listening to this...
SUMMARY:
A Danish journalist digs deep to uncover a web of lies that stretches back to a grisly murder, but knowing the truth might put an end to her story.
It's early September in Copenhagen, the rain has been coming down for weeks, and 36-year-old journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. And then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and ominous letters from an alleged killer.
Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna Kiel hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. The police think she's fled the country and have zero clues as to her motive. But homicide detective Erik Scháfer comes up with the first lead when the reporter who first wrote about the case is found murdered in his apartment. Has Anna Kiel struck again, or is there more than one killer at large? And why does every clue point directly to Heloise Kaldan?
Meanwhile, the letters keep coming, and they hint at a connection between Anna and Heloise. As Heloise starts digging deeper, she realizes that, to tell Anna's story, she will have to revisit the darkest parts of her own past--confronting someone she swore she'd never see again.
Paperback, 352 pages
Expected publication: September 28th 2021 by Redhook
THE SEVEN VISITATIONS OF SYDNEY BURGESS BY ANDY MARINO
More spooky books for the spooky season!
SUMMARY :
Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door, and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel.
She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors' yard and calling the police. What the cops tell her is that she can no longer trust her memories. Because they say that not only is the intruder lying dead in her guest room, but he's been murdered in a way that seems intimately personal.
When she returns home, Sydney can't shake the deep darkness that hides in every corner. There's an unnatural whisper in her ear, urging her back to old addictions. And as her memories slowly return, she begins to fear that her new life was never built on solid ground and that the secrets buried beneath will change everything.
She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors' yard and calling the police. What the cops tell her is that she can no longer trust her memories. Because they say that not only is the intruder lying dead in her guest room, but he's been murdered in a way that seems intimately personal.
When she returns home, Sydney can't shake the deep darkness that hides in every corner. There's an unnatural whisper in her ear, urging her back to old addictions. And as her memories slowly return, she begins to fear that her new life was never built on solid ground and that the secrets buried beneath will change everything.
THAT IS IT FOR THIS WEEK. BE SURE TO DROP YOUR LINK IN THE COMMENTS SO I CAN VISIT AND SEE WHAT YOU ARE READING THIS WEEK...
So many tempting books! Thanks for sharing, and here are my WEEKLY UPDATES
ReplyDeleteNice looking assortment of books. I hope you enjoy this week's choices. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteLots of spooky books. LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteI have started reading Christmas books too! I love variety in your books.
ReplyDeleteOoh I need to read that Agatha one!
ReplyDeleteI think DEATH ON THE NILE will be my next Agatha Christie novel...I want to read it before I see the movie!
ReplyDeleteNice list of books, they all look so good. I've read The Ballerina's and enjoyed it. Hope you do too!
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