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Smiling Shelves

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

1/4/2016

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This weekly chance to add to your reading list is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date.
Happy New Year! I had a wonderful week last week, traveling to a couple different states to visit family and friends. I didn't get much reading done, but my time was filled very well. Now it's January - a new year - and time to dive into all those books I want to read!

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What I Read Last Week

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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan (An interesting mixture of literary essay and memoir)
The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer (Just as fun as the first one in the series!)

What I'm Reading Now

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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson (Seemed an appropriate book to start the year with.)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (My post about this will show up Thursday. Here I go!)

What's Coming Up Next

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The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill (For the Reading Together book club - details here!)
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Kathryn link
1/4/2016 03:08:54 pm

Love the sound of your books especially the Maureen Corrigan one, and the Sara Nelson one.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/5/2016 07:53:30 pm

Aren't books about books fun?

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Melinda Ott link
1/4/2016 03:28:17 pm

Good luck with War and Peace. Big Russian novels scare me!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/5/2016 07:54:02 pm

It scares me, too, but I'm determined to make it through this time!

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Lindsey link
1/5/2016 01:55:20 pm

I loved Corrigan's book about The Great Gatsby. I will have to look for Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading!

I hope you are having a great week. :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/5/2016 07:56:49 pm

I've got So We Read On on my TBR list, but someone didn't connect that they were by the same author. I'll be bumping that one up the priority list now!

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Elizabeth link
1/5/2016 06:49:06 pm

I love the title of Leave Me Alone I Am Reading.

We should have buttons made with that on. :)

ENJOY your reading week.

Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
<a href=http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2016/01/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-1416.html>My It's Monday, What Are You Reading</a>

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/5/2016 07:54:32 pm

Ooh, I agree! Buttons would be great!

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Beth link
1/6/2016 01:04:52 pm

I love books about books. And I've been a huge fan of Patricia Wrede for decades, which of course led me to Stevermer. And a love of letter novels.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/6/2016 05:37:01 pm

Aren't those Cecelia & Kate novels fun? :)

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