It's Monday! What are you Reading May 17, 2010?

This meme starts at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books!

Again busy this week and I didn't get to visit around the blog world.
I got a good group of reviews done since I had two nights without internet.
Still working on line edits too.


Reading was good although I only got two finished.

Finished:

PB:  Iron Man 2 by Alexander Irvine
Fast action read; comic book heroics but fun.  I'll be curious to see the movie.
Review and Giveaway to be posted later this week.

Product Description

"I am Iron Man." With those words, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark revealed his secret identity. Now a famous high-tech superhero, he uses his powers to protect mankind. Yet things are not going well for Tony Stark. The U.S. military demands control of the most powerful weapon on earth--the Iron Man suit. His beautiful new assistant has a strange, mysterious agenda while his best friend, Rhodey, has betrayed him. And Tony is hunted by a vengeful Russian criminal armed with a lethal technology that may be stronger than Tony's suit. But even as he fights his demons, the hero faces his greatest threat--one that no armor can defend against . . .

Kindle2:-----------------

Audio: Another Chance, Another Time by Catherine Snodgrass.  This was a good romance with well developed characters and an interesting plot.
 Read for review for Romance Junkie Reviews.

He has spent an eternity trying to protect and provide for the love of his life. Each time he has failed...miserably. Now fate has given them another chance. Will Alec Edwards and Dani Morgan learn from the mistakes of their past or repeat them all over again?

Currently reading:

PB:  Sworn to Protect (Call of Duty Series, Book 2) by DiAnn Mills.
I got this in this week and couldn't resist starting! This pulled me in and I am anxious to read where it goes! About 1/4 read.  Reading for review for Romance Junkies.

Border Patrol Agent Danika Morales has sworn to protect the southern borders of our nation, but that oath has cost her. Two years ago, her husband, Toby, was killed trying to help the very immigrants Danika was responsible for sending back to Mexico. His murder was never solved.

But now, a recent string of attacks and arrests leads her to believe that someone in McAllen is profiting from sneaking undocumented immigrants into the country . . . and it may somehow be tied to Toby’s death.

PB: Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo.
I am only a couple of chapters into this. I am really liking the history aspect!  This is another Hachette book for review and giveaway. 

Product Description:
Alex Cross tells the incredible story—passed down through the generations—of an ancestor's courageous fight for freedom.
SEPARATED BY TIME
From his grandmother, Alex Cross heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a book he's written—a novel called Trial.
CONNECTED BY BLOOD
A lawyer in early-1900s Washington, D.C., Ben Corbett fights against oppression and racism—and risks his family and his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.
UNITED BY BRAVERY
In Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter, Moody. With their help, Ben discovers that lynchings have become commonplace. Ben vows to break the reign of terror—but the truth of who is really behind it may break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, ALEX CROSS'S TRIAL is a gripping story of murder, love, and unparalleled bravery.

Kindle2:
High Octane by Kathleen Scott.  Very good action, intrigue, and tension! I am really speeding through this! Reading to review for Romance Junkie Reviews.

Product Description

Two hearts are never more than one dimension apart.
A routine fuel run through one of the planet-s dimensional portals explodes in violence when Major Geneieve Lockhart-s Jumper team is hammered with an unprovoked attack. With her ship disabled and contact to mission control limited, Genie faces her worst nightmare-losing her crew on the blood-soaked floor of a foreign desert.
Help comes from an unlicensed freelance mercenary ship, piloted by a man she never thought she-d see again. Her AWOL ex-lover, Lt. Col. Dante Bowen.
Bowen knows answering Genie-s distress call puts his undercover mission to expose a governmental conspiracy at risk. But after faking his death six years ago, he owes her something. Ending up chained in her cargo hold for transport to his own court martial wasn-t the thanks-for-the-rescue he expected.
The bridges between them may be in ashes, but their desire burns as hot as ever. Even as Genie wonders what happened to Bowen-s code of honor, her body betrays her heart at every turn. The hostile race that attacked her ship, though, is coming back to finish them off. The only way to ensure freedom-on both sides of the dimensional divide-is to put her trust in the one man who betrayed it-
Warning: Contains action-packed dimensional travel, hot military wartime sex, betrayed lovers and evil, power-hungry bastards.

Kindle2:  Love Comes Knocking by Kathy Cakebrea. Reading to review for Romance Junkie.

Product Description

Have you ever felt unlucky in love? If you think Cupid has gone on holiday for the last few years then feel happy you're not the only one.Ben Dover is a big guy with a big heart who is desperate to find love in a image conscious society. Follow him in this hilarious tale of dating, love and a little bit of romance as he tries to find the one. Will he finally get struck by Cupids arrow? Read on to find out. The perfect book for the hopelessly romantic!

Audio CD:  Black Hills by Dan Simmons   

The car had fuel pump problems this week after DH fixed the starter.  I'll get more done this week with two trips for hearings in other counties. I have found this interesting so far. On disc 7. Reviewing for YGR.

Description:

It is an epic tale of a Lakota Sioux named Paha Sapa ("Black Hills") whose life spans the decades of perhaps the greatest change in America's history. When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for decades to come.
Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills.
In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.

I am still working on writing more reviews but I seem to be making progress!

Upcoming books: - These will probably be next week books.
Kindle:
The Heart of a Warrior by Margaret West

Dragonborne by Chandra Ryan

Audible:  Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder.  This is on hold for a bit while I listen to audio review books.