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

Hi guys, boy it was a hard start this morning. Atlas has been out of school for a week due to weather, so we have all been staying up a bit later in the evenings. Yesterday we had to get up and go to SHUL SCHOOL, we live in a small town outside of the city so have a 45 minute drive to get there, and it was hard to get up. This morning Atlas went back to school, and while it was fairly easy to get him up, all of us our dragging. I was up all night sick, I must have eaten something my Crohnes did not like, so we have already planned a very early night tonight!

WHAT I FINISHED...

Finally finished my Voyage Book, so I am going to get it packaged up and ready to send off when it was time. This book was on my 25 for 25 challenge this year, so I am glad someone sent it on the Voyage, it forced me to get it read. Oh my gosh it was a sweet little book. Two time lines of then and now, and as always, I love the then much better than the now. 

WHAT I AM READING:

VICTORIAN PSYCHO BY VIRGINIA FEITO

Went a bit creepy for this one, so far it is interesting. If you like a creepy psycho  Nanny story, this one may be for you.

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only jokeabout eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze. Compounded with her disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time, as is admiring the ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the moonlit lawns. . . .

Patience. Winifred must have patience, for Christmas is coming, and she has very special gifts planned for the dear souls of Ensor House.

THE FALL RISK BY ABBY JIMENEZ

Reading this on my Kindle, it is a novella, so should be an easy read, except I only read it at night when I wake up and can't go back to sleep. My husband doesn't think I am a very nice wife when I throw the lamp on at 2 in the morning to read. Men are so picky ! =0)

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and Charlotte and Seth are not looking for romance. Armed with emotional-support bear spray, Charlotte is in self-imposed isolation and on guard from men. Having a stalker can do that to a person’s nerves. Just across the hall and giving off woodsy vibes is Seth, a recently divorced arborist. As in today recently. Heights, he’s fine with. Trust? Not so much. But when disaster traps them one flight up and no way down, an outrageously precarious predicament forces a tree-loving guy and a rattled girl next door to embrace their captivity. Soon their defenses are breaking away. Considering how close they both are to the edge, Charlotte and Seth could be in danger of falling—in love.

HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN

I started this audio last Sunday night, and it is the last time I have listened to it. Blame it on an 9 year old and a husband being iced in with me. They didn't leave me alone ...

Can't wait to dig my teeth into this Vampire story ( pun intended )

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