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Sunday, August 4, 2013

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? August 5, 2013

This meme starts at Book Journey!

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.

Reading was good this week. I finished three and am well into several more.  I posted four reviews one with ARC Giveaway. I also posted a Giveaway announcement for Sourcebooks. 
I  posted the weekly Mailbox Monday meme, Friday Pick Giveaway, Saturday Snapshot, Sharing Beyond Books Comment Giveaway and Sunday Words.

I finally got to visit Saturday Snapshots on Saturday. I have a few more to visit and want to visit the Monday memes this week.
Thanks as always to all the nice people who visit me.

These were last week's posts (plus winner post):
  • Book Review: The Hero's Lot by Patrick W. Carr, Fantasy Adventure, Inspirational; my rating 4.75.
  • Audible Book Review: The Overton Window by Glenn Bank, Political Thriller; my rating 4.75.
Finished Reading:
1. Audible



Ready Player One
     by Ernest Cline
     Narrated by Wil Wheaton
I really enjoyed this!
I'll post a review this week.
Click on Title for full book description.



2. Print



Flirting with Texas 
by Katie Lane
This ended better than I expected.
I will post a review with ARC Giveaway this week.
Click on Title for full book description.



3. eBook/Kindle
 

Click: An Online Love Story
by Lisa Becker
I had to get used to the format but
this is a fun romance.
I'll post a review this week.
Click on Title for full Book Description



Line Edits/Releases:
We are working on print, Smashword and Kindle releases.
Released at Smashwords for all ereader formats:
Drinna by Jared Gullage
Genre: YA, Fantasy
BTW - for a chance to win an ebook copy enter the bi-monthly drawings
at eTreasures Publishing Facebook page
Drinna Giveaway



Currently reading:
1. Audio



The Eye of Moloch
    by Glenn Beck
    Narrated by Jeremy Lowell

This is another good thriller listen.
I have almost finished and will be posting a review.
Received from Simon and Schuster through Audiobook Jukebox.
Publisher's Summary
The last battle for freedom is underway....

By the end of Glenn Beck’s number-one best-selling political thriller The Overton Window, a young rebel named Molly Ross had torn aside the curtain to reveal a shadow war being waged for the future of America. In the six months since then, her fight for freedom hasn’t gone well. Marked as traitors and hunted by ruthless government-sanctioned mercenaries using the most advanced surveillance technologies ever created, Ross and her "Founders' Keepers" find themselves cornered and standing alone. but the fight is far from over.

The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans, ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty - and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth that man is capable of ruling himself.

As Doyle prepares to make his final move toward a dark, global vision for humanity's future, new allies join the fight and old enemies change sides. In the midst of it all, Molly draws together a small but devoted group willing to risk their lives to infiltrate one of the most secure locations on earth - a place holding long-standing secrets that, if revealed, would forever change the way Americans view their rare, extraordinary place in history. Exposing these truths, and the real-life game of chess being played for mankind’s freedom, is their last chance to save the country they love.



2. Print



Revenge
by Debra Webb
This is reading very quickly
and the suspense is building.
Reviewing for Forever/Hachette.
Book Description
Publication Date: July 30, 2013
The Faces of Evil Series: Book 5
The desire for revenge can never be sated . . .

When her beloved high school teacher appears on her doorstep, Deputy Chief Jess Harris is flooded with fond memories-until the woman says she's about to be charged with murder. Called to the scene of the crime, Jess learns the victim of the bizarre and brutal slaying was a member of Birmingham's famed "Five."

Twelve years ago, the Five were rich, popular high school seniors who threw one wild last party. Two social outcasts were invited to play in the "loser games." The next morning, one player killed himself. Now Jess fears that an invitation to an upcoming class reunion may have forced the Five to play a new deadly game. As Jess fights to keep her former teacher from suspicion-and her relationship with Chief Dan Burnett separate from her work life-she knows she is caught in a vicious cycle of vengeance. And the killer is far from finished . . .



3. ebook/Kindle



Windshift
by Joyce Faulkner
I am learning and enjoying the story.
Reviewing through NetGalley.
Book Description
Publication Date: October 22, 2012
Shirley Maxwell is a troubled young woman facing a complicated personal life, a culture that restricts female options, and a world at war. Yet, together with friends -- Emmie, Delores, and Mags -- she joins Jackie Cochran's Women's Air Service Pi-lots program (WASP) and participates in the adventure, challenges, and tragedies of the 1940s with determination and courage. Shirley and her friends know what they are tackling will be hard, but they do it anyway and relish the effort. In the process, they change what is possible in the minds of young girls everywhere. Lively and moving, Windshift inspires and educates. Appropriate for history buffs interest-ed in the World War II era, students of social change, those who love tales of der-ring do and those who just love airplanes.



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 still have several print books carrying over from June now into August. I don't have quite so many new choices so I think I can wrap these carry overs up this month.

August
Scheduled:
8/22 Review: A Most Devilish Rogue by Ashlyn Macnamara; Review and Author Guest Blog through Random House 


Sourcebooks
    (none scheduled unless I pick up at NetGalley)


Hachette - Forever
    A House Divided by Kimberly Lawson Roby
    Guilty as Sin by Jami Alden
    Revenge by Debra Webb (reading)

    Ruthless 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 (reading)

AudioBook Jukebox

      The Eye of Molech by Glen Beck (listening)


Author Books received at March EPICon
     Convict Dad by P. Ryan Hembree


Author Review titles:
     Double Click by Lisa Becker

From TBR Collection - TBD
Won Book - TBD
Free Kindle/Nook or Smashwords: TBD

3 comments:

  1. I've been wanting to listen to Ready Player ONe for too long now! Have a great week.

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  2. I hope I can do more reading this month. The last few weeks reading took a back seat.

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  3. I need to stop saying I want to read Ready Player One and finally read it!!

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