Yet another Monday! (May 2, 2011)

There has been so much going on over here and so much changing soon. I wish I could say I was reading a lot, but it's feeling like a luxury at the moment.

Family visitLast week, we had my husband's brother and his wife drive down from Boston and stay with us for the week. It had been months since we enjoyed anyone's close companionship for that long so we all enjoyed the time together. We were very sad to say our goodbyes. I hope we can all return to the pre-March era soon.
While they were here, we celebrated the girl's birthday. (I feel like I have been talking about birthdays on this blog for the past many weeks but we are done for the year! Next birthday is in March.) My daughter had wanted a unicorn cake, and that's exactly what we got, so that made her day. For her birthday present, we wanted to take her to a store and get her a bike but stock is incredibly low. Last week, she had just mastered riding a bike (no training wheels, she went straight from balance …

Yet another Monday! (May 2, 2011)

It's Monday! What are you reading this week?

Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!

Although April was a hectic month for me, I had a lot of reading done this month. I hope May turns out to be the same for me, but I'm certainly counting on more downtime as well.

Books completed in the last week

The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert: This book has been receiving a lot of buzz lately, but for some reason it didn't work well for me.

In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard: I enjoyed this book a lot! I can't wait to review this - hopefully this week itself!

Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten: After all the heavy reading, I wanted some light reading and so I picked this one. This was a cute book but it didn't work too well for me.

News from over my blog

Reviews up!

The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry

Leif Reads

Life on a Farm

Other posts

Pondering my reading

Books on my nightstand

I barely got to any of the books on my pile last week, so my reading for this week has the same set of books.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Since I already have two review books lined for this week, I figured one non-review book might be nice to ease some pressure that I was talking of yesterday. This book has been on my shelf for ages, so I'm glad to be eventually getting to it!

The Lost Girls by Amanda Pressner, Jennifer Baggett, and Holly Corbett: I just started this one yesterday and it's wonderful reading so far. It reads like an adventure by three girls with whom I could relate so well.

Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras: I haven't yet started this one, so I'm hoping to do so sometime this week. It sounds fascinating - set in Buenos Aires, from the perspective of a 10-year old, whose family is going into hiding.

Comments

Vonharzj said…

Shadow of the Wind sound interesting and I do really enjoy Zafon's writing hope you have a great week!

May 2, 2011 at 5:12 AM

Young1 said…

Looks like you had an amazing month in April i hope it follows through.
The Lost Girls is one i cannot wait to get my hands on as well as The Kitchen Daughter - i have seen them both on several blogs and they look juicy!
Hope all is well - oh i updated my PIE!!! :D

May 2, 2011 at 7:05 AM

hcmurdoch said…

I enjoyed Wherever Nina Lies and it's quite a hit with the girls at my school, too bad it didn't work for you. But, I really enjoyed Shadow of the wind and wanted to go to Barcelona once I was finished with it!

May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM

Laurel-Rain Snow said…

In Zanesville is one I've been noticing lately. It looks good!

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May 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM

Zohar said…

Kamchatka sounds fascinating, I'm looking forward to your review of it.

May 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM

Nina Happyendings said…

I love books with my name in the title. ;) lol. Wherever Nina Lies!!!

May 2, 2011 at 9:10 AM

Lisa M said…

You have a lot of interesting titles here! Gives me a lot to go check out!

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