Book Date: 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

WHAT I READ...

A KILLING COLD BY KATE ALICE MARSHALL

This was a good thriller that takes place in an isolated cabin...loads of characters, so many choices on who did it. You can find my review here

    WHAT I AM READING...

I am still reading LOVE AND OTHER WORDS BY CHRISTINA LAUREN and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ANTISEMITISM. Being my Voyage book and a non-fiction I am only reading about a chapter or two a day, so it will take a me a bit to get them finished .

FINELY DONOVAN DIGS HER OWN GRAVE BY ELLE COSIMANO

PUB DATE: MARCH 4, 2025

I am not a series reader but I did really enjoy the first book of this series, I think I started the second one and set it down. When this was offered to me I thought what the heck it has been awhile since I read the first one. I am reading it on my Kindle, and again, it will take a bit to finish to because...I don't sleep...I have always been a bit of an insomniac, but I try to stay in bed because when I get up and TRY to stay quiet I make MORE noise, and I can't just turn the light on to read because...you know...husband..so I read my kindle when I am awake in the middle of the night. However, it also downloads on my phone, so on occasion I get some reading done when I am waiting for something.

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay’s elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty, the community busybody and president of the neighborhood watch. But when a dead body is discovered in her backyard, Mrs. Haggerty needs their help. At first a suspect, Mrs. Haggerty is cleared by the police, but her house remains an active crime scene. She has nowhere to go . . . except Finlay’s house, right across the street.

Finlay and Vero have no interest in getting involved in another murder case—or sacrificing either of their bedrooms. After all, they’ve dealt with enough murders over the last four months to last a lifetime and they both would much rather share their beds with someone else.

WHAT I AM LISTENING TO...

THE SNOWBIRDS BY CHRISTINA CLANCY

pub: February 4

This was an early listen from MacMillan that I didn't get out before publication- oops...

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.

That is all I have going this week, hopefully next week I will have more to share...it all depends on how life goes this week !