It's Monday! What are you Reading May 3, 2010?

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

I visited lots of wonderful blogs at Blogmania - its was great fun! I will definitely plan on participating in September!
I did get a couple more reviews done.
Reading went well since I had some travel time.

Finished:

PB: Traction - Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman This was presented very well, laying out a step by step plan for your business focus and success.
Reviewing for YGR Reviews.

Product Description

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common problems and frustrations run you and your business. Get a grip and gain control with the Entrepreneurial Operating System. Inside Traction, you'll learn the secrets of strengthening the Six Key Components of your business. You'll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Based on years of real-world implementation in over 100 companies, the Entrepreneurial Operating System is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. Successful organizations are applying it every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses -- and you can too.

PB: Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet by Jonathan Merritt
This is quite lovely. There will be a review and Hachette Giveaway posted this week.

Publisher's Description

In GREEN LIKE GOD, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back." Relying heavily on scripture, Jonathan gives the case for green living, but not because it's trendy and hip. Rather, it's part of living rightly as a believer. It's an act of obedience to our Creator-God.

GREEN LIKE GOD is at once practical, prescriptive, and conversational in tone. The author looks at a number of trends with tips to help the reader wade into the world of creation care living. An appendix includes suggestions of things we can do. In addition, the book includes interviews with everyday Christians to tell the story of the journey to environmental stewardship among people of faith.

This is the book that Christians are longing for and need today. Written for a new generation of Christians who are struggling with how to deal with the important issue of creation-care and green living, GREEN LIKE GOD is both highly relevant and theologically sound. It will have a profound impact on how Christians live and interact with the world today.

PB: Uncertain Magic by Laura Kinsale
This was magical! I will post a review soon. This is a re-release by Sourcebooks. I can do a giveaway for this ARC too.

A man damned by suspicion and innuendo
Dreadful rumors swirl around the impoverished Irish lord known as "The Devil Earl." But Faelan Savigar hides a dark secret, for even he doesn't know what dreadful deeds he may be capable of...
A woman cursed by the gift of "sight"
Roderica Delamore fears no man will ever want a wife who can read his every thought and emotion, until she encounters Faelan. As the two find their way to each other against all odds, Roddy becomes determined to save Faelen from his terrifying and mysterious ailment. But will their love end up saving him...or destroying her? A breathtaking historical romance filled with poignancy, darkness, love, and an unexpected twist of Gaelic magic...

Kindle2: --------

Audible: --------

Currently reading:

PB:  Eureka Point by Betty Ann Harris
About 2/3rds done - I like the characters and the plot. 
This is a book I won - it is really nice to read some of my own TBR!I really liked the cover too!

Product Description

Looking for your knight in shining armour? Running as fast as you can, trying to avoid danger, into the arms of safety or is it? Katie Montgomery, learns that her estranged husband, Craig Montgomery, has been deceiving her and is involved with a dangerous South American drug cartel. He becomes a fugitive and leaves Katie alone and in danger. The FBI is afraid that the drug cartel thinks Katie may know all about their drug operation, and to protect her the FBI assists her in assuming a new identity. Then enters Tom, the FBI special agent assigned to protect her. He is totally smitten with her and will do anything to protect her. They fall for each other but Katie cannot allow herself to give in and show her true feelings. Unexpected twists and turns keep you on your toes as you root for Tom, who turns out to be the modern day knight in shining armor. Are you up to finding out about a Special Agent?

PB:  The Brothers of Gwynedd: The Legend of the First True Prince of Wales by Edith Pargeter.  I am reading this as part of the first Sourcebooks Summer Reading Club! There are four stories together in this book. We are reading one each month.  The first story is Sunrise in the West. I have just started this.
My review is to be posted May 18.

Product Description

A Burning Desire for One Country, One Love, and One Legacy That Will Last Forever.
Llewelyn, prince of Gwynedd, dreams of a Wales united against the English, but first he must combat enemies nearer home. Llewelyn and his brothers-Owen Goch, Rhodri, and David-vie for power among themselves and with the English king, Henry III. Despite the support of his beloved wife, Eleanor, Llewelyn finds himself trapped in a situation where the only solution could be his very downfall...
Originally published in England as four individual novels, The Brothers of Gwynedd transports you to a world of chivalry, gallant heroes, and imprisoned damsels; to star-crossed lovers and glorious battle scenes; and is Edith Pargeter's absorbing tale of tragedy, traitors, and triumph of the heart.

Kindle2:  Nothing chosen yet.

Audio CD:  Black Hills by Dan Simmons   

I started this on my drive to the airport last week. Very interesting so far. Reviewing for YGR.
I got interrupted on this because I somehow shorted out the radio in the car. That wasn't all - now the car won't start.  OOPS!

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.

Audible:  Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder.  I really LOVED her Study series so thought I would squeeze this in while waiting for the car and car radio to get fixed.  I like Opal and am interested to see where the story will take her.

Product Description

As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal's unique talents to prevent it happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap in to a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening. And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance—including her own—Opal must control powers she hadn't known she possessed…powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she's ever known.

Same old story:  I am still working on writing more reviews!

Upcoming books: - I don't think I will get to any of these before the end of the week so these will probably be next week books.
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo.  Hachette book with giveaway.

Iron Man 2 by Alexander Irvine. Another Hachette book with giveaway.