It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

There were a variety of posts last week. Two on exercise:

My Wednesday word was “sere” and I wasn’t the only one surprised that I didn’t know what looks like such a short and simple word: Wondrous Words Wednesday.

Our book club had a great discussion on Thursday, Book Review: At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire.

Yesterday, I joined Trish’s Pin It and Do It challenge, Pin It and Do It: joining a Pinteresting Challenge.

Read

I finished Quatrain by Sharon Shinn. I enjoyed all four novellas. They were set in four different worlds that Shinn has created in her fantasy novels so three of them were familiar to me. Now I want to read the book that established the fourth one: Heart of Gold. This is the description of the world from the Sharon Shinn’s website: “Two races—the matriarchal indigo and the patriarchal gulden—uneasily co-exist in a single shared metropolis.”

Reading

I’m still reading Do I Look Fat in This? by Rhonda Britten, but I’m almost done.

I started More than a Mistress by Mary Balogh. It’s an older one of her novels and I may have read it before, but I can’t be sure yet. Oh well, it won’t be the first time that I accidentally reread a novel. In fact, I won’t be the first time with this author!

Will Read

My next lunch-time reading book will be a review book I received and hope to write up for Weekend Cooking on Saturday: The Fire Island Cookbook by Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen. I really like the concept of this book — we’ll have to see if I like the recipes as well.

For evening reading, my next book will be our next book club selection, Color Me English by Caryl Phillips. I wouldn’t normally be reading it so soon before our book club meeting, but there are only three copies available at local libraries so I will borrow it now and have it back before other people want to start reading for book club.

It’s Monday! What Are Your Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. Be sure to check out her post today to see her selections and the list of links to all the other participating bloggers.

Comments

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? — 5 Comments

Mari @Bookworm with a View on April 30, 2012 at 7:28 am said:

Speaking of words… I did mention reading 50 Shades last week… the author clearly used the thesaurus and placed words NO one uses in daily life into a 6th grade sentence. It drove me crazy at times. 🙂

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Leeswammes (Judith) on April 30, 2012 at 12:56 pm said:

Oh, fun! Reading a book about food during lunch times. At least you can eat something at the same time. 🙂

I’ve re-read books without realising I read them before until I was half-way or so. In one case, I didn’t remember anything about the book, except for one very dramatic scene, that I could not possibly have read in another book. Odd, how we forget!

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Sheila (Book Journey) on April 30, 2012 at 2:56 pm said:

You had a good week, I have a couple of your links to check out.

I should be on for the weekly update this week… missed it last week, a time thing 😀 This week I know what I want to say.. just need to do it 😀

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Arlene Moll on April 30, 2012 at 7:11 pm said:

I am about 200 pages intio ‘Alexander Hamilton’ by Ron Chernow. Great as to biographical details. But, more importantly is helps me understand more of the economic news of today, ie tariff taxes, etc. Sounds like the problems of taxation started with the end of the Revolution. How else does one pay for a war?

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- Joy Weese Moll on May 1, 2012 at 8:47 am said:
  
  Rick read that and found it very helpful, too. We met a lady at the Art Museum on Friday who was also reading it — a popular book!
  
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