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, comment, and… add to your groaning TBR pile! This meme by Kathryn at The Book Date
I have no idea why my weeks have been so busy and I don't seem to be getting any reading done, but it is what it is ....
WHAT I AM READING:
THE GHOST OF ROSE HILL BY R.M. ROMERO
Still reading this but I am so close to being done with it. It is about a Jewish girl who meets a ghost of a boy in an old cemetery in Prague, so you do have to suspend your reality a bit, but it is beautifully written. I would like to share two verses with you that have touched me so far....
This is Benjamin ( the ghost boy ) speaking to the girl taking care of the cemetery...
Benjamin closes his eyes, searching the world inside of him. " I think it is harder. Because magic feels ordinary and miracles seem so far way. You're more of a miracle than I am. "
I laugh-I'm not that kind of a girl. " How can you say I'm a miracle? "
"You're a Jew. You're alive in Prague "
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That just gave me chills that he saw it as a miracle, that today there are Jews alive in Prague.
This passage is just Ilana walking and thinking to herself:
Inside the Pinkas Synagogue there are names painted on the wall in red and black ink. They're a chapter in the history of my people, but I can't read them all. There are to many--78,000 victims of the Nazi's, Czechs and Slovaks murdered, all because they were Jews. This is what it's like to be Jewish in Europe. Every beautiful thing has horror buried under it. I'm always walking on bones.
This book isn't overly Jewish, it is not a main string of the story, but every now and then it hits you hard in the face with lines like that.
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ON AUDIO...
I have just started this and not far into it, so no opinion on it yet.
With a healthy newborn baby, a devoted husband, a successful career, and a busy life on Martha’s Vineyard, Brynn Nelson should be the happiest she’s ever been. But Brynn is struggling. Her husband, Ross, grows more distant by the day, and the challenges and exhaustion of postpartum make Brynn feel like she’s slowly losing pieces of herself to motherhood. Pieces that she might never get back.
But it’s summer on the Vineyard, a beacon for wealthy visitors, and a place so beautiful that it seems immune to tragedy and crime. Except for locals, like Brynn, who know all too well that tragedy can strike at any point. And this time, it hits close to home when a friend of the family is found washed ashore. Dead. And Brynn’s already hectic life is turned upside down when Ross is arrested for the crime.
Left reeling with more questions than answers, Brynn’s only path forward is to find out who really killed Cecelia Buckley, even if it means it was her husband. She’s not sure who she’s able to trust anymore. And with dizzying, endless cycle of sleepless nights, diapers, and bottles, Brynn’s not even sure she can trust herself. She’s not sure of anything anymore, but she won’t stop until she finds the truth.
But it’s summer on the Vineyard, a beacon for wealthy visitors, and a place so beautiful that it seems immune to tragedy and crime. Except for locals, like Brynn, who know all too well that tragedy can strike at any point. And this time, it hits close to home when a friend of the family is found washed ashore. Dead. And Brynn’s already hectic life is turned upside down when Ross is arrested for the crime.
Left reeling with more questions than answers, Brynn’s only path forward is to find out who really killed Cecelia Buckley, even if it means it was her husband. She’s not sure who she’s able to trust anymore. And with dizzying, endless cycle of sleepless nights, diapers, and bottles, Brynn’s not even sure she can trust herself. She’s not sure of anything anymore, but she won’t stop until she finds the truth.
ON MY KINDLE:
Just received this for a blog tour, and am excited to get it started
SUMMER ON CAPE MAY BY MONICA GARNER
Fast friends since forever, Lu, Kenya, and Natalia share a special love for the historical beach town of Cape May. For Lu, it was a welcome escape from the corporate arena into a simpler life—owning a B&B with her soon-to-be-husband, Zach . . . Kenya fell for Cape May's tranquil shores and believed she and her high school sweetheart would be there together forever . . . And family vineyard owner Natalia feels it’s the perfect place to complete her happy marriage with the baby—or babies—she desperately longs for . . .
But as the trio plans Lu's lavish wedding, the bride-to-be is stunned when the estranged father she thought was dead shows up to make amends—and throws her every certainty about family and love into heartbreaking doubt. Meanwhile, widowed Kenya is drawn to a kind, attractive stranger, even as she wonders if passion is enough to risk her future on. And when Natalia uncovers an unthinkable betrayal, the secrets she and her friends have kept from each other will explode across the long summer nights . . .
But as the trio plans Lu's lavish wedding, the bride-to-be is stunned when the estranged father she thought was dead shows up to make amends—and throws her every certainty about family and love into heartbreaking doubt. Meanwhile, widowed Kenya is drawn to a kind, attractive stranger, even as she wonders if passion is enough to risk her future on. And when Natalia uncovers an unthinkable betrayal, the secrets she and her friends have kept from each other will explode across the long summer nights . . .
WHAT I FINISHED:
BEACH VIBES BY SUSUAN MALLERY
this was my first beach read of the year, and won't be my last, I love them. It didn't really hit home with me, as there wasn't really any beaching going on other than the cover and an occasional reference to surfing here and there. Other than that, it was a decent, yet slowburn, family saga
Nothing like taking an entire month to read an 80 page novella!!! It was a cute read that should have taken me at the most 2 days to read. I said last week I would get it finished and I did!!
I WOULD DIE FOR YOU BY SANDIE JONES
This was a decent mystery/thriller that involved Boy Bands, and it kept me reading!
Nice looking assortment of books. I have an eARC of Such a Good Mom that I need to read soon. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of Such a Good Mom because it sounds fascinating. I'm just skeptical becuse I could barely get myself dressed when I had a newborn, never mind solve a murder mystery with my brain addled from all those hormones!
ReplyDeleteShe struggled so badly with having a newborn, so it is really a bit misleading that she went out and solved a murder, like how we imagine it.
DeleteSuch great books this week, Teri! Love the cover on The Ghosts of Rose Hill. Saw Summer on Cape May online somewhere recently. Hope you get some reading time in soon. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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