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 enjoyed my week but only finished three books with three more nearly done. I posted three reviews, two with Giveaways. As usual, I posted the regular Friday Pick Giveaway; Saturday Sharing Beyond Books, and Sunday posts.
I think I visited a few other blogs last week but then got wrapped up in preparing for the trip. I doubt I will be able to visit while away as the satellite internet is very slow and it would be too expensive.. These were last week's posts plus Winner posts not listed.
- Book Review and ARC Giveaway Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware. Historical Fiction/Time Travel Romance; my rating 4.25. Ends 9/30.
- Book Review Love is Blind and It Don't Pay the Bills Either by Karen Wiesner. Inspirational Romance; my rating 4.25.
- Book Review and ARC Giveaway Kingdom of Summer by Gillian Bradshaw. Historical Fiction/Fantasy Romance; my rating 4.5. Ends 9/30.
- Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway September 9, 2011. Open Worldwide. Ends 9/15.
- Sharing Beyond Books #13 Comment Giveaway. Open Worldwide. Ends 9/16.
Print/Kindle:
by Gillian Bradshaw
Review and Giveaway linked above.
Print/Kindle:
It is for review and
author Q&A on September 14.
Read for Sourcebooks.
Read for Sourcebooks.
Kindle:
Undisclosed book.
Line Edits/Releases:
I will be releasing the Prom Night Anthology this week.
I will be releasing the Prom Night Anthology this week.
Currently reading:
Print/Kindle:
by Isabel Cooper
This sounds like another fun book to read.
Reading for Sourcebooks.
Reading for Sourcebooks.
Product Description
It's Terminator meets My Fair Lady in this fascinating debut of black magic and brilliant ball gowns, martial arts, and mysticism.
England, 1888. The trees are green, the birds are singing, and no one has any idea that in a few hundred years, demons will destroy it all. Joan plans to keep it that way. All she has to do is take out the dark magician responsible-before he summons the demons in the first place. But as a rough-around-the-edges assassin from that bleak future, she'll have to learn how to fit into polite Victorian society to get close to her target.
Simon Grenville has his own reasons for wanting to destroy Alex Reynell. The man used to be his best friend-until his practice of the dark arts almost killed Simon's sister. The beautiful half-naked stranger Simon meets in the woods may be the perfect instrument for his revenge. It will just take a little time to teach her the necessary etiquette and assemble a proper wardrobe. But as each day passes, Simon is less sure he wants Joan anywhere near Reynell. Because no spell in the world will save his future if she isn't in it.
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Audible/Audio
I read through part 4: Immortal
by Gillian Shield.
I read through part 4: Immortal by Gillian Shield.
This is another free summer download at AudioBook Community - SYNC YA Listening.My error - I only got 4 of 7 parts downloaded so I am hoping to get to download it again so I can finish it.
Product Description
Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, housed in a Gothic mansion on the bleak northern moors, is elite, expensive, and unwelcoming. When Evie Johnson is torn away from her home by the sea to become the newest scholarship student, she is more isolated than she could have dreamed. Strict teachers, snobbish students, and the oppressive atmosphere of Wyldcliffe leave Evie drowning in loneliness.
Evie's only lifeline is Sebastian, a rebellious, mocking, dangerously attractive young man she meets by chance. As Evie's feelings for Sebastian grow with each secret meeting, she starts to fear that he is hiding something about his past. And she is haunted by glimpses of a strange, ghostly girl—a girl who is so eerily like Evie, she could be a sister. Evie is slowly drawn into a tangled web of past and present that she cannot control. And as the extraordinary, elemental forces of Wyldcliffe rise up like the mighty sea, Evie is faced with an astounding truth about Sebastian, and her own incredible fate.
Gillian Shields's electrifying tale will dazzle readers with suspense, mysticism, and romance.
Print:
Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
by Florence Henderson
I am looking forward to reading about this lovely lady.
Reading for Hachette - Center Street.
Product Description
For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned.
Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.
Kindle:
Product Description
When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson witnesses a kidnapping in progress, he reacts instinctively, breaking up the crime and saving a young girl. But the kidnapper, a sociopath known as the “I-90 Killer,” escapes and vows revenge, targeting Ferguson’s own daughter as his next victim. Now one terrified father must unravel a plot that may go much deeper than he realizes, racing against time to save his only child from an unthinkable fate.
Kindle:
by Diane Craver
I am looking forward to reading this novella.
Reading for the Author.
Audible:Justin Reeves is a man who has it all: a good job, a loving wife and children who are the center of his universe. Justin also has a secret he's hidden from everyone his entire life-or so he thought. Quite innocently his small daughter, Debby, stumbles upon his secret and is shocked by what she finds. She confronts her father with the awful truth, and together they embark upon a journey which takes her father from the darkness of shame into the light of victory.
Drawing from true events in her own childhood, author Diane Craver captivates the reader from page one to a stunning climax which will touch your heart and impact your life forever in this must-read story of love's triumph over adversity.
- UNABRIDGED
- by
- Narrated by
![The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch | [Bill Pronzini]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51+aDLY3OCL._SL175_.jpg "The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch | [Bill Pronzini]")
Ravaged by time and abandoned by the people who once flocked there in search of golden nuggets, Ragged-Ass Gulch is a ghost town. What’s left is a small, proud, and close pack of people who aren’t looking for change. But change seems to be afoot as several mysterious fires plague the town. That’s where the Nameless Detective comes in….
I am also listening to The Listener's Bible NIV
read by Max McLean. I am at Job 28, Isaiah 55 and Galatians 5.
Line Edits: I have two new releases to go this week and next. Still working on setting up print releases. If it's not one thing it surely is another. :-)
Line Edits: I have two new releases to go this week and next. Still working on setting up print releases. If it's not one thing it surely is another. :-)
September Review Books - 13 or so - that should keep me busy. :-)
Scheduled:
9/14 Lord and Lady Spy
by Shana Galen with Author Review9/20 The Lonely Mile
by Allan Leverone (Pump Up Your Book)9/28 The Wounded Heart: An Amish Quilt Novel
by Adina Senft (FaithWords)Center Street
Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
by Florence HendersonForbidden (The Books of Mortals)
by Ted Dekker, Tosca LeeSourcebooks:
No Proper Lady
by Isabel CooperAuthor Selections:
Karen Weisner - Love Is Blind and It Don't Pay the Bills Either (Denim Blues Mysteries, Book 2)
(read)
and Souls on (B)oring Street [Denim Blues Mysteries Book 3]
Anne Patrick Renegade Hearts
Nibi Soto - The Chronicles of Quant
Diane Craver - A Christmas Gift
Amy Tupper - Tenderfoot
Nathan Patrick Hardt - The Second Sonata
Caedem Marquez - The Path Home
[To be posted:
These were read and ready for reviews for Authors. I am sending out interviews for these. I hope to post them all in September.
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
Anne Patrick Renegade Hearts
Nibi Soto - The Chronicles of Quant
Diane Craver - A Christmas Gift
Amy Tupper - Tenderfoot
Nathan Patrick Hardt - The Second Sonata
Caedem Marquez - The Path Home
[To be posted:
These were read and ready for reviews for Authors. I am sending out interviews for these. I hope to post them all in September.
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.
by Nicole Zoltack - Both Read; setting up author interview with reviews.
Steamrolled
by Pauline Baird Jone. Read; review to be posted with author interview.]
by Pauline Baird Jone. Read; review to be posted with author interview.] 
