BOOK DATE: IT IS 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
Good Monday Morning everyone! Hope all is well and you were able to get a lot of reading done over the weekend. Not much has changed here, I am a true member of the Slow Readers Club haha
We are expecting a bit of sleet and snow starting tomorrow, so it is off to the grocery store as soon as this is done. I am not making one of those emergency milk and toilet paper runs I seriously have to buy groceries, we did not get it done this weekend like we usually do. I want to make sure I get there before the mad rush, we are not use to this much winter weather around these parts. So on to what I have read and so on....
WHAT I FINISHED......
THE SNOWBIRDS BY CHRISTINA CLANCY
Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their "separate but together" partnership is running up against the realities of late middle age: Grant’s mother has died, the college where he taught philosophy was shuttered, and their twin girls are grown and gone. Escaping the bitter cold of a Midwestern winter for the hot desert sun of Palm Springs seems as good a solution as any to the more intractable problems they face.
When they arrive at Le Desert, a quirky condo community where everyone knows everyone’s business, Kim immediately embraces the opportunity to make new friends and explore a more adventurous side of her personality. Meanwhile, Grant struggles to find his footing in this unfamiliar landscape, leaving Kim to wonder if their relationship can survive the snowbird season. But when Grant goes missing on a hike in the Palm Springs mountains, Kim is forced to consider two terrifying outcomes: either Grant is truly lost, or this time he’s really left her.
When they arrive at Le Desert, a quirky condo community where everyone knows everyone’s business, Kim immediately embraces the opportunity to make new friends and explore a more adventurous side of her personality. Meanwhile, Grant struggles to find his footing in this unfamiliar landscape, leaving Kim to wonder if their relationship can survive the snowbird season. But when Grant goes missing on a hike in the Palm Springs mountains, Kim is forced to consider two terrifying outcomes: either Grant is truly lost, or this time he’s really left her.
THE PERFECT ROM-COM BY MELISSA FERGUSON
Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for The Bridge, her grandmother's financially-struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. But after a disastrous pitching session, she stumbles into correcting another author's work in a last-ditch attempt to make a good impression with the agent. And she, as it turns out, is spot on.
No one is more surprised than Bryony when the agent offers her the opportunity to be a ghostwriter for Amelia Benedict, popular rom-com novelist. Bryony agrees on one she'll write books for this vain, demanding woman just as long as Jack Sterling, literary agent of the legendary Foundry Literary Agency, works to sell her own book too.
What nobody predicted, however, was that Bryony's books would turn Amelia Benedict into theAmelia Benedict, household name and bestselling author with millions of copies sold around the world.
No one is more surprised than Bryony when the agent offers her the opportunity to be a ghostwriter for Amelia Benedict, popular rom-com novelist. Bryony agrees on one she'll write books for this vain, demanding woman just as long as Jack Sterling, literary agent of the legendary Foundry Literary Agency, works to sell her own book too.
What nobody predicted, however, was that Bryony's books would turn Amelia Benedict into theAmelia Benedict, household name and bestselling author with millions of copies sold around the world.
WHAT I AM READING...
Still reading these two, but should have both read this week
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ANTISEMITISM BY RABBI DIANA FERSKO
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WHAT I AM LISTENING TO....
Thank you to Dreamscape for allowing me to have an early audio, it will be released tomorrow on February 18
Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London and to the imposing Nethershaw manor in the countryside, where Henry aims to host a hunt with society’s finest. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband hunted, and though they never speak of it, it haunts their marriage to this day.
The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger.
Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . .
The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger.
Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . .
I did the same thing on Friday. Thought I better get to the grocery store before Saturday morning, since snow was arriving Saturday afternoon. Great books this week. Need to add The Snowbirds to my wish list. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog today.
ReplyDeleteNice looking assortment of books. I hope your weather doesn't get too bad. We had six inches of snow a couple of days ago. We're used to it so it wasn't much of a problem. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI hope you were able to stock up on what you needed at the grocery store, Teri. Snowbirds seem a fitting book to read this time of year--take you away from the cold, even if only on the page. I hope you are enjoying your current reads. Have a great week, Teri!
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