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'm not sure why my reading seemed slow this week. One book went quickly but another was slow, even if good reading. I posted three reviews (although in my head I posted four), two Giveaway links and a Giveaway Hop. I also posted the weekly Mailbox Monday meme, Friday Pick Giveaway, Saturday Snapshot, Sharing Beyond Books Comment Giveaway and Sunday Words.
I didn't get to visit at all last week. I hope I can make up some visiting this week.
Thanks as always to all the nice people who visit me.
These were last week's posts (plus winner post):
- BookBlast Giveaway: The Hero's Lot by Patrick W. Carr $50.00 GC/PP. Ends 8/11/13.
- Book Review: West Palm Part 1: The Undertaker's Apprentice by Joss Cordero, Mystery; my rating 4.0.
- Lazy Days of Summer Spontaneous Giveaway Hop. Ends 8/4/13.
- Audio Book Review: The Deliverers: Sharky and the Jewel by Gregory S. Slomba, Middle Grade, Fantasy Adventure; my rating 4.25.
- Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway July 26, 2013. Open Worldwide. Ends 8/1.
- BookBlast Blog Tour Giveaway: The Hero's Lot by Patrick W. Carr $25.00 GC/PP. Ends 8/14/13.
- Book Review and Giveaway: Flight of the Raven by Ellen Harris, Cozy Mystery, Inspirational; my rating 4.0. Ends 8/2.
- Sharing Beyond Books #110 Comment Giveaway 7/27/13. Open Worldwide. Ends 8/2.
1. Print
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
by Molly Cannon
This is a fun read.
I will post a review and Review copy giveaway this week.
Click on Title for full book description.
2. Audible
The Overton Window
by Glenn Beck
Narrated by James Daniels
This was hard to put down.
I will post a review this week.
Click on Title for full book description.
The Overton Window
by Glenn Beck
Narrated by James Daniels
This was hard to put down.
I will post a review this week.
Click on Title for full book description.
3. eBook/Kindle
The Hero's Lot
by Patrick W. Carr
I enjoyed the action and the messages in this story.
I am late but will post the review on Tuesday 7/30.
Don't miss the two giveaway links.
Click on Title for full book description.
Line Edits/Releases:
Here is what we released:
The Late, Great Benjamin Bale by John Joseph Doody
The Guild Saga, Book Two
The destinies of two men depend on Maggie Thorn. One is dying and the other is dead...or is he?
Supreme Fleet Commander, Admiral Geoff Grangore knows of only one man who could get Maggie to Timmerus and back while traitorous eyes are watching. That man is an old drunk who lives deep in the Thandimonean wilderness with his pet Eno, Snot. Benjamin Bale is suicidal and cantankerous, and Maggie can’t stand him—at first.
Bale is a dead man. At least, that’s what everyone was told. But this dead man has a final mission to perform. The greatest star pilot in the galaxy has a chance to redeem himself and make right a great wrong. A wrong which he can never forgive or forget. A wrong that cost him everything.
Genres: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure
Pages: 370, Novel
Print Release:
Flick-Flick and Dreamer by Margaret Karmazin
Kindle Release:
Love is Not Proud [Kindle Edition] (Two 5 star reviews!)
1. Print
Flirting with Texas
by Katie Lane
I am 30% into this and the characters are a bit crazy.
I am reading this for Hachette/Forever.
Click on Title for full book description.
Flirting with Texas
by Katie Lane
I am 30% into this and the characters are a bit crazy.
I am reading this for Hachette/Forever.
Click on Title for full book description.
2. Audible
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Narrated by Wil Wheaton
I decided to slip this audio in from my own Audible Library. It is very engaging!
Publisher's Summary
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late 20th century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
3. eBook/Kindle
Click: An Online Love Story
by Lisa Becker
I will start this later in the week.
Reviewing for the Author.
Book Description
Publication Date: March 29, 2011
Fast approaching her 30th birthday and finding herself not married, not dating, and without even a prospect or a house full of cats, Renee Greene, the heroine of Click: An Online Love Story, reluctantly joins her best guy pal on a journey to find love online in Los Angeles. The story unfolds through a series of emails between Renee and her best friends (anal-compulsive Mark, the overly-judgmental Ashley and the over-sexed Shelley) as well as the gentlemen suitors she meets online. From the guy who starts every story with "My buddies and I were out drinking one night," to the egotistical "B" celebrity looking for someone to stroke his ego, Renee endures her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates. Fraught with BCC's, FWD's and inadvertent Reply to All's, readers will root for Renee to "click" with the right man.
I continue to listen to The Listener's Bible NIV read by Max McLean. [Reading and listening on MP3.] I have been remiss and not keeping up with daily reading with my DH.
Line Edits: Still working. Several more releases being prepared for the next few weeks. I am still doing more Smashword conversions in between print formatting.
I have several print books carrying over from June to July and new ones added. The new additions push the total beyond what I wanted so we'll see how things go week to week. Looks like I will not get everything done in July and several will roll into August.
July Scheduled:
Sourcebooks
(none scheduled unless I pick up at NetGalley)
Hachette - Forever
A House Divided by Kimberly Lawson Roby
Flirting with Texas by Katie Lane (reading)
Guilty as Sin by Jami Alden
Revenge by Debra Webb
NetGalley: (July and early August)
The Companions, The Sundering, Book I by R. A. Salvatore
The Godborn, The Sundering, Book II by Paul S. Kemp
Windshift by Joyce Faulkner
AudioBook Jukebox (July and early August)
The Eye of Molech by Glen Beck, Narrated by Jeremy Lowell
Author Books received at March EPICon
Convict Dad by P. Ryan Hembree
Author Review titles:
Click: An Online Love Story by Lisa Becker (reading)
Double Click by Lisa Becker
From TBR Collection - TBD
Won Book - TBD
Free Kindle/Nook or Smashwords: TBD