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.
My busy week caught me short on posting and reading this week. Thanks to 16 hours of driving I did finish two more books after one very long one. I posted two reviews but I have several ready for this week now. I also posted an author interview with giveaway, and my regular Friday Pick Giveaway, Saturday Sharing Beyond Books and the Sunday post.
Thank you to the nice people who visited me last week. I was glad to get to visit last Sunday night but I will be crashing tonight after our busy weekend and long drive home.
These were last week's posts plus a couple of Winner posts not listed.
- Book Review: My Sparkling Misfortune by Laura Lond; Fantasy, YA; my rating 4.5.
- Interview with Laura Lond, Author of My Sparkling Misfortune, with Giveaway
- Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway February 24, 2012. Open Worldwide. Ends 3/2.
- Book Review: The Canker Death by James R. Bottino; Fantasy; my rating 3.0.
- Sharing Beyond Books #37 Comment Giveaway. Open Worldwide. Ends 3/3.
1. eBook/Kindle
Review linked above; good writing and characters but I didn't get the story.
Product Description
When the reclusive, cynical systems administrator, Petor Fidelistro,
discovers that one of his own servers has been cracked late one night,
he makes it his personal business to track down the perpetrator. What
his search uncovers thrusts him, unaware, into a mad shifting between
worlds, time and alien minds.
See book link or review for full description.
See book link or review for full description.
2. Audible
Silver Borne: Mercy Thompson, Book 5
- UNABRIDGED
- by Patricia Briggs
- Narrated by Lorelei King
- Series: Mercy Thompson, Book 5
Another wonderful, action packed and
pack-bonding book in this series. I will try to get a mini-review posted (for read for fun challenge.)
My Rating: 4.75 of 5.0
Publisher's Summary
All-new action in the number-one New York Times best-selling urban fantasy series.
When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down. It seems the book contains secret knowledge - and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands.
And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side - leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam's life forfeit.
All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn't careful, she might not have many more to live.
3. Kindle/NG
by M.L. Buchman
This is great action and romance - I really liked it.
Review to be posted for Sourcebooks.
Book Description
Publication Date: February 7, 2012 | Series: The Night Stalker
NAME: Emily Beale
RANK: Captain
MISSION: Fly undercover to prevent the assassination of the First Lady, posing as her executive pilot.
NAME: Mark Henderson, code name Viper
RANK: Major
MISSION: Undercover role of wealthy, ex-mercenary boyfriend to Emily
Their jobs are high risk, high reward:
Protect the lives of the powerful and the elite at all cost. Neither expected that one kiss could distract them from their mission. But as the passion mounts between them, their lives and their hearts will both be risked...and the reward this time may well be worth it.
Line Edits/Releases: I hope to get a print book out this week.
Currently reading:
1. Audio
by Kresley Cole
Lothaire is still a pretty hard character to like and I am rooting for Elizabeth. I am at disc 5 of 14.
Reviewing for Simon & Schuster through AudioJukebox
Book Description
Publication Date: January 10, 2012
From the humblest of beginnings a millennia ago, Lothaire the Enemy of Old
rose to power, becoming the most feared and evil vampire in the immortal
world. Driven by his past, he will not rest until he captures the
vampire Horde’s crown for himself. The discovery of his Bride, the
female meant only for him, threatens to derail his plot.
Elizabeth
Peirce is a mere mortal, a glaring vulnerability for a male with so many
deadly foes bent on annihilating anything he desires. Yet soon he
discovers his Bride’s secret. A magnificent power dwells inside the
fragile human, one that will aid his quest. But to possess that power,
he will have to destroy her. Will Lothaire succumb to the torments of
his past, or seize a future with her?
2. Print
by Eowyn Ivey
Lovely writing in this.
Reading for Little Brown & Co.
Book Description
Publication Date: February 1, 2012
Alaska,
1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent
arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking
under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness
and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,
they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is
gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the
trees.
This
little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods.
She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow,
and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel
struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages
of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in
this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what
they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
3. eBook/Kindle
by Darcy Flynn
Bewitching Blog Tour; Review scheduled for March 2.
Product Description
Katie McCullough doesn’t know it, but Max Sawyer, the over confident, insufferable thief who outbid her for the lighthouse property, is none other than her mystery lighthouse sailor. The one man who captured her heart five years earlier, the one man who has since been the plumb line for every other unsuspecting male who has crossed her path. Unfortunately for Max, he doesn’t measure up either.
Still reeling from losing the property she’d planned to call home, sparks fly when Katie assumes Max is turning her beloved lighthouse compound into one of his “Serenity Spa Resorts.” Outraged, Katie sets out on a mission to dismantle the property…and his plans.
Except Max’s plans have absolutely nothing to do with hotels and everything to do with winning Katie’s heart
.
Katie McCullough doesn’t know it, but Max Sawyer, the over confident, insufferable thief who outbid her for the lighthouse property, is none other than her mystery lighthouse sailor. The one man who captured her heart five years earlier, the one man who has since been the plumb line for every other unsuspecting male who has crossed her path. Unfortunately for Max, he doesn’t measure up either.
Still reeling from losing the property she’d planned to call home, sparks fly when Katie assumes Max is turning her beloved lighthouse compound into one of his “Serenity Spa Resorts.” Outraged, Katie sets out on a mission to dismantle the property…and his plans.
Except Max’s plans have absolutely nothing to do with hotels and everything to do with winning Katie’s heart
.
4. eBook/Kindle
by Karen Wiesner
I am reading this for review for the author.
Product Description
WRDF Top Read of Excellence!
1st Place winner in the contemporary romance category of the 2010 Love Romances & More Golden Rose Award!
5 Hearts Award - The Romance Studio
Joined before God and family out of a sense of responsibility? Or love?
As a teenager, Justine Morris’s escape from the pressures of caring for her dying father was stolen moments with Joshua Samuels. But their tender, desperate liaison found them facing teen pregnancy. Afraid of their Christian families’ responses to the situation, they married quickly and built a life for their child.
But now that their daughter is ready to fly the nest, Justine can no longer ignore the truth: She and Joshua haven’t had a real marriage for a long time. Maybe they never had one at all.
Joshua is only too aware that his busy, professional attorney wife is an independent woman who never really needed him. After nearly two decades of marriage, he’s quit trying to get more than a piece of her at a time. Without their daughter holding them together, he knows the chasm between them will grow to epic proportions.
Their empty nest looming, they face the hard questions. Had they married in love…or out of a hasty sense of responsibility? Was it God’s will for them to be together? And now, is it worth the effort to learn to become one as the Lord intends for a man and a woman…or better to simply let go?
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 around1989 so I will enjoy it again. I finish will be reading Judges and Ruth this week.
Line Edits:
As soon as reports are finished I will be back to continuing to work on
print releases and making special arrangements for a children's book.
I am starting with 13 books to read and review for March plus three to finish from February and a week of reviews to catch up on. It looks like another busy month although some of these are shorter reading.
March:
Scheduled:
3/2 Keeper of My Heart by Darcy Flynn (Bewitching Blog Tour)
3/5-9 I will be reviewing Kicking Ashe by Pauline Baird Jones; highlighting the Project Enterprise series including: The Key, Girl Gone Nova, Steamrolled
, Tangled in Time with author interview and book giveaways. 3/15 True Highland Spirit by Amanda Forester with Guest Post (Sourcebooks)
3/19 The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing by Calvani and Edwards (Bewitching Blog Tour)
3/20 Assassins in Love by Kris DeLake with Guest Post (Sourcebooks)
3/22 The Day of First Sun by Sheryl Steines (Novel Publicity)
3/24 Love to Water My Soul (Dreamcatcher Series #2) by Jane Kirkpatrick, review (my Ladies' Book Club)
Sourcebooks
Believe it or Not by Tawna Fenske
A Light on the Veranda by Ciji Ware
Author Reviews:
Promise Me by Dee Julian
Echo Falls by Jamie McDougall
An Irish Rogue by Suzanne Barrett
Foolish Games [Family Heirlooms Series Book 3] by Karen Wiesner
[To be posted - I am setting these up soon 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.]
