Saturday, August 11, 2012

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading??– August 13th, 2012

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It’s Monday! What Are you Reading? is hosted by Shelia of Book Journey. It is a chance to share what you have read and what you plan on reading in the upcoming week. I enjoy seeing what everyone’s reading plans for the week. I always find some titles that I just *had to add to my TBR list.

Accomplishments the Last 2 Weeks:

Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Library Loot: August 4th, 2012

Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

Library Loot – August 11th, 2012

Finished Reading – Such A Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb – Ready for Book Group Discussion on Tuesday

My Plans for this week:

Write Review of: Such A Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb

 

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Such A Pretty Face - Cathy Lamb
Stevie Barrett is a 35-year-old legal secretary in Portland. She's also literally half the woman she used to be. Bariatric surgery melted 150 pounds off her frame, and life is looking up. However, Stevie's svelte physique carries its own baggage.

(From Goodreads.com)

Finish Audio – Rules of Civility

 

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On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast--rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.

Wooed in turn by a shy, principled multi-millionaire and an irrepressible Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, befriended by a single-minded widow who is a ahead of her time,and challenged by an imperious mentor, Katey experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize how our most promising choices inevitably lay the groundwork for our regrets. (From GoodReads.com)

Start Reading – Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick

 

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Heading Out To Wonderful – Robert Goolrick
It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of a few hundred people, nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains his few possessions, including a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. A lot of money.

Finding work at the local butcher shop, Charlie befriends the owner and his family, including the owner's son, Sam, who he is soon treating as though he were his own flesh and blood. And it is through the shop that Charlie gradually meets all the townsfolk, including Boaty Glass, Brownsburg's wealthiest citizen, and most significantly, Boaty's beautiful teenage bride, Sylvan.

This last encounter sets in motion the events that give Goolrick's powerful tale the stark, emotional impact that thrilled fans of his previous novel, A Reliable Wife. Charlie's attraction to Sylvan Glass turns first to lust and then to a need to possess her, a need so basic it becomes an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path. Told through the eyes of Sam, now an old man looking back on the events that changed his world forever, Heading Out to Wonderful is a suspenseful masterpiece, a haunting, heart-stopping novel of obsession and love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen.

(From GoodReads.com)

 

Next Up ?? –

NEXT AUDIO

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In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity.

As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness.
Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy.

(From GoodReads.com)

NEXT BOOK

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When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound...
At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency...
These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."

(From Goodreads.com)

These are my reading plans for the week.  What are you reading plans for the week???  Join in with Shelia at Book Journey and share your reading plans for the week!!

Happy Reading!!

9 comments:

  1. Interesting selection of books. My favorite book last week was Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. Please come see what else I'm reading.

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  2. I haven't read any of the books you mentioned but a few of them look especially interesting to me like Such a Pretty Face & State of Wonder.

    Tanya Patrice
    Girlxoxo.com

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  3. I want that Cathy Lamb title - I loved the last book of hers I read


    Have a great reading week!

    Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out

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  4. I haven't read any of these but they all sound good, especially the first three. :)

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  5. You've made some great reading picks. Let us know what you think of them!

    Here's my It's Monday! What Are You Reading? I hope you will stop by!

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  6. I adore Kate Atkinson's books...and Ann Patchett is another favorite. I still haven't read State of Wonder. I must!

    I enjoy Cathy Lamb, so Such a Pretty Face is going on my list.

    Here's MY MONDAY MEMES POST

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  7. I've been really wanting to read "pretty face" It's a new thing in our society, these ladies losing tons of weight and having to find themselves once again. Hope you like it!

    Whatcha readin' this week @ the Brunette Librarian :)

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  8. Oh, what a great list Jen! I really liked State of Wonder and Rules of Civility, hope you do too. Off to read your review of The Paris Wife :)

    Have a great week of reading!
    http://therelentlessreader.blogspot.com/

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