It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.
I will be combining my YA and adult reading and purchases on this one weekly roundup. YA and middle grade reviews will still be posted on Ms. Martin Teaches Media - my other blog.
Other Than Reading...
I've been in my new home for one week now and am not surrounded by quite as many boxes. The shelves in my library are full and books from Nora Roberts to Mark Richard Zubro are still to be unpacked onto the shelves in my guest bedroom.
My brother and I also spent a day changing things at the bank and getting new driver's licenses with our correct address. The bank was rather complicated because we wanted to remove my mother's name from our joint account. She passed away in 2006 and we had never gotten around to changing it. We needed to find her death certificate which we thought was in the safe deposit box but were mistaken. We also had to change the safe deposit box because it was still in our parents' names on their electronic records despite the fact the my brother and on were on the access agreement. That took a surprisingly long time and was something new for our young personal banker who had to call for help.
Once the safe deposit box issue was solved, we accessed it and took everything home except for our parents' death certificates which we had found at home. We are going to sort through and see what we really need to keep. I doubt we still need to save our dad's discharge papers from the army from 1946. I haven't been able to locate my birth certificate anywhere which I was hoping was in the safe deposit box. We did find three of them for my brother though.
I've had two showings of my house so far. One decided it wasn't for them but the other is interested. This week we will see workman at our other house to make the basement repairs. We want to list that one for sale by July 1.
This retirement thing is busier than I expected or hoped but it should all settle down once we manage to sell our two extra houses. Having the boxes unpacked will help too.
Read Last Week
Links go to Amazon:
Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce (YA)
UNSUB by Meg Gardiner (June 27)
City of Angels by Kristi Belcamino (YA)
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Currently
From my review pile: The Waking Land by Callie Bates (June 27)
Next Week
- A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
- The Hypnotists by Gordon Korman
- Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (July 1)
- The Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst (July 4)
Links go to my reviews.
Delia's Shadow by Jaime Lynn Moyer
Indigo by Charlaine Harris et al.
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
Ticker by Lisa Mantchev
More of Me by Kathryn Evans
- Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin
- Just the Way You Are by Christina Dodd
- Her Dark Half by Paige Tyler (Sept. 5)
- On the Chase by Katie Ruggle (Sept. 5)
