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...
This was a pretty quiet week. My brother and I took a quick day trip on Wednesday, which was also my birthday, down to pick up the boxes I had forgotten at my townhouse. We had lunch at one of our favorite Italian restaurants in Rochester, picked up my stuff, dropped off the YA books I wanted to donate to the high school media center, and drove back to Duluth. We stopped at Coldstone Creamery in Duluth to use a gift card I had and get an ice cream treat to celebrate the end of our long drive.
It took me a couple of days to recover both because of the long day and because of late baseball games. I took a few naps and read lots and lots. We are in the waiting phase of our house sales. The items we needed to fix for the Locust Street house are done and now we are just waiting for the closing at the end of the month. The inspection was done on my townhouse in Eyota on Friday but I haven't heard yet if there are things I need to fix. I should hear this week. The closing for that one is set for Sept. 1.
I don't have anything on my agenda for this week and hope to read lots of the September review books I have on my stack.
Read Last Week
I began the week by reading the next four books on my review stack.
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee is about Genie Lo, average Chinese-American girl, who finds herself fighting demons from Chinese mythology. My review will be posted today on Ms. Martin Teaches Media.
Her Dark Half by Paige Tyler was also a romantic suspense title from NetGalley. It is deep in a series which I haven't read but stood up well as a stand-alone. My review will be posted on this blog September 2.
I listened to the author Sharon Lee read a chapter of Mouse and Dragon and got sucked back in to reading the Liaden Universe books. One thing led to another until I found that I'd read six of them. I needed to keep reading until I got to the most recent book which is making me very hungry for Neogenesis which will be coming out sometime in 2018. I did skip most of the Theo Waitley books (12, 14, 15, and 17 in the internal series order) because I was following Daav and Aelliana's story but will probably read them this coming week.
Currently
Next Week
I have a bunch more September releases on my review stack this week. First the Adult books:
All the Secret Places by Anna Carlisle (Sept. 12)
Body on Baker Street by Vicki Delany (Sept. 12)
Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris (Sept. 26)
Then the YA books:
The Equals by Daniel Sweren-Becker (Sept. 12)
The Exact Location of Home by Kate Messner (Sept. 12)
A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess (Sept. 19)
Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones (Sept. 19)
Reviews Posted
Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Dead Man's Bridge by Robert J. Mrazek
Hunting Hour by Margaret Mizushima
In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody
- The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg - I got book 2 for review and want to know what happened in book 1.
- Refuge for Masterminds by Kathleen Baldwin - I read books 1 and 2 a while ago and want to know what happens next.
- Mind Game by Iris Johansen (Oct. 24) - I was approved for this thriller by a favorite author at NetGalley.
- The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Lee (August 8) - This was a surprise package from Amulet Books.
