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.
The reading this week was very good - five books completed with two almost complete. I posted four reviews, one with ARC giveaway. I also posted two Giveaway Hops. Plus, I posted the regular Friday Pick Giveaway, Saturday Snapshot, Saturday Sharing Beyond Books Comment Giveaway and Sunday Words.
I got to visit blog sites at the beginning of the week but none later and none on Saturday as I returned from flying to South Florida and then slept and cleaned a little.
Thanks again to all the nice people who visit me.
These were last week's posts:
- November Clear the Shelf Giveaway Hop. Ends 11/18.
- Book Review: A Lady By Any Other Name by Jennifer Kitchens; Historical Romance; my rating 4.75.
- Audio Book Review: A Brew to a Kill: A Coffeehouse Mystery by Cleo Coyle; Cozy Mystery; my rating 4.5.
- 3rd Annual Gratitude Giveaways Hop. Ends 11/25.
- Book Review: Secrets of the Red Box by Vickie Hall; Suspense; my rating 4.5.
- Book Review and ARC Giveaway: Untamed by Sara Humphreys; Paranormal Romance; my rating 4.5. Ends 11/30.
- Sharing Beyond Books #75 Comment Giveaway. Open Worldwide. Ends 11/23.
1. eBook/Kindle
2. Audio CD/MP3
Review is linked above.
3. Print
Untamed (The Amoveo Legend)
by Sara Humphreys
I enjoy this series!
Review and ARC giveaway linked above.
4. Print
Missing
by Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen
This is an engaging mystery with young adult characters.
I will post my review and giveaway this week.
5. eBook/Kindle
Guardians of Stone (The Relic Seekers)
by Anita Clenney
I really liked this action/adventure!
Review, Author Interview and Giveaway will post on November 20.
Line Edits: I'll be uploading another children's title this week.
Currently reading:
1. Print
Where Angels Rest
by Kate Brady
Whew -lots of good suspense!
I will post the review and ARC Giveaway this week.
Book Description
Publication Date: November 20, 2012
A RACE FOR SALVATION
For the past decade, psychologist Erin Sims has been helping victims of violent crimes move on with life . . . but the one person she can't save is the one who matters most. In only seven days, her brother will be executed for a murder he didn't commit. Convinced she knows the identity of the real killer, Erin is determined to find the man and bring him to justice.
A COUNTDOWN TO DESTRUCTION
Sheriff Nick Mann moved to rural Ohio hoping to forget the tragedies of his past. When Erin shows up in town, bringing scandal and unwanted media attention with her, Nick knows she's trouble. No one believes sleepy Hopewell could harbor a serial killer . . . until residents begin to disappear. Now as Nick untangles the dark secrets plaguing his town, he can't help falling for the beautiful woman with the warm heart and iron will. And, as the days tick by, the truth becomes clear: Erin is hunting a vicious murderer-one whose only escape is to silence her forever.
2. eBook/Kindle
Forged In Death, Book 1 of The Death Wizard Chronicles
by Jim Melvin
Lots of story telling!
I'll be posting a review this week.
Book Description
Publication Date: August 20, 2012
Enter the realm . . .
Book One, The Death Wizard Chronicles.
Only a Death-Knower can die. And live again.
Only a Death-Knower can return from death. And remember.
Only a Death-Knower can tell the world what he's seen. Not all care to listen.
For a thousand years, none have rivaled the power of Torg, the Death-Knower wizard, as he ruled his people and kept peace on Triken.
Now a new threat has suddenly arisen. The evil sorcerer Invictus is greater even than Torg, and his greed and ambition threaten to engulf the land in eternal darkness. When Invictus imprisons Torg in a horrifying pit bored into the solid rock of a frozen mountain, the fate of Triken hangs in the balance.
Torg becomes freedom's final hope, but first he must die to earn the victory.
3. Audio/MP3
The Crooked Wreath
by Christina Brandt
This one is taking more concentration
than I expected!
I'm reviewing for Highbridge Audio through AudioBook Jukebox.
Book Description
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
A family patriarch is murdered on the eve of signing a new will
Sir Richard’s family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the wastrels who bear his name. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers—by morning, he’s dead.
Scotland Yard sends Inspector Cockrill, the only detective clever enough to unravel the family’s tangle of jealousy and deceit. Each member had reason to kill Sir Richard, but which one plunged the syringe of poison into his heart? With a family this mad, nothing is as complicated as the truth.
4. Print
Five Days of Fear
by David Kovach
I will be starting this book in a day or two. Review and Giveaway to post November 27 through TLC Book Tour.
Book Description
Publication Date: November 9, 2012
During a family picnic, Jessica Britton’s well-ordered world is slammed against a brutal reality and her faith is tested when her mom is kidnapped, her dad is shot, and authorities can find no clues to begin their investigation. Jessica’s own anxiety and fear for her mother’s life compels her to help FBI Agent Dan Hamilton look for motives and clues that would lead to rescuing her mom. By chance, clues begin to emerge, and the once floundering investigation speeds to a hectic race against time and criminal minds in a desperate attempt to save Jessica’s mom and the lives of many in San Francisco’s business district.
5. eBook/Kindle
Shards of Ashley (Book 5 of Family Heirloom Series)
by Karen Weisner
I have enjoyed this series and
look forward to reading this
for review for the author.
Book Five Family Heirloom: Learning trust
In order to reconcile her past, she must face the terrible truth she buried long ago...and, in doing so, she gambles with her heart and the salvation of her own soul.
Ashley Savage grew up in a troubled home with a competitive, pampered sister and an abusive, ridiculing mother who played at being a Christian when she needed to...and led Ashley to more addictions than one child could handle. As an adult, Ashley tells herself she's put the extreme fears of the past behind her, but she spends most of her time repairing the crumbling wall holding back the horrors she's not willing to face ever again. She's become a woman against the world.
The one man who has the annoying habit of getting through her defenses is Jay Samuels, a military chaplain and soon-to-be pastor. Much as Ashley wants to leave him behind like she believes she has the rest of her past, Jay is ambitious to a fault where she's concerned. He hears only what he wants to hear?and he doesn't want to hear that she doesn't love him as much as he loves her.
But even Jay doesn't realize the extent of all she's buried deep inside her own subconscious...and what keeps her from giving herself willingly to the God she knows is drawing her inexorably to Himself, to the one place she can't run, where she can no longer hide...
I will probably be starting another audio this week too.
I am again listening to The Listener's Bible NIV read by Max McLean. [Reading and listening on my new MP3.]
Instead of studying with the Tyndall One Year Bible this year I am studying with Through the Bible in One Year by Alan B. Stringfellow. It is a Study that I used for teaching back in around 1989 so I will enjoy it again. The reading this week is James.
Line Edits: Waiting on some illustrations and completing formats this week.
I started with 20 or so titles planned for November. Twelve have been read (ten posted). That leaves me working on 10 to post during the month. I really do intend to get a smaller list going into December!
Review to post:
Review with Giveaway: Trouble with Cowboys by Denise Hunter
Scheduled for November
11/20 Guardians of Stone (The Relic Seekers) by Anita Clenney - Review and Interview
11/27 Five Days of Fear by David Kovach - Review (TLC Tour)
11/28 BookBlast - First Time: The Legend of Garison Fitch by Samuel Ben White
Unscheduled for November
Sourcebooks - done
Hachette
Where Angels Rest by Kate Brady
Thomas Nelson
His Love Endures Forever (A Land of Canaan Novel) by Beth Wiseman
AudioBook Jukebox
The Crooked Wreath by Christina Brandt
NetGalley
Uninvited by Heather Graham
Forged In Death, Book 1 of The Death Wizard Chronicles by Jim Melvin
Authors
Shards of Ashley (Book 5 of Family Heirloom Series) by Karen Weisner
I'd like to read at least one "Won"/TBR book and one free Kindle book.:-)
Older Won Book: DONE
Kindle Read - TBD
Others in line up if time permits
Double Danger (An A-Tac Novel) by Dee Davis (Nov/early Dec)
The Blessed and the Damned (Righteous Series #4) by Michael Wallace
Won TBR: The Shifters of 2040, a Shifter Dystopia by Ami Rebecca Blackwelder - carry forward
[To be posted - I am setting these up for interview/feature days.
These were read and ready for reviews for Authors.
Quest for Magic by Jean Hart Stewart - Read; review to be posted with interview.
Seeing for the First Time (What You See is What You Get)
and To See (What You See is What You Get)
by Nicole Zoltack - Both Read; setting up author interview with reviews.]
You did have a great week of reading! Hope this week is just as good. Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you enjoyed A Brew to Kill and that it worked well as an audio. I requested my library purchase it in the audio format and I think I'm going to put off reading it until they get that in.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy all your books and have a happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteA super week for you! Missing caught my attention, will keep an eye out for your review. Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your reads this week.
ReplyDeleteGreat week!! I am so far behind on the coffeehouse mysteries. I am glad you enjoyed it. :)
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