It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

8/5/2013

This weekly meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

Happy Monday to all! Here's what's gone on in my reading world this week:

My Recent Posts

The Wind in the Willows (for the Reading to Know Book Club)
My sign-up and check-in post for the Semi-Charmed Summer Reading Challenge
The Baker Street Translation by Michael Robertson - Review

What I Read Last Week

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier (Why, oh why, did I not check the sequel out from the library, too?)

What I'm Currently Reading

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (Can I jump on a plane to Italy right now?)

What's Coming Up Next

My stack of library books is sort of dwindling (I picked up two more books I had on hold this week). Hopefully I'll get through four books or so by the end of the week, and I'll be on track to get them returned on time! I've got to read a book a day - that's a good excuse for not getting anything else done this week, right?

14 Comments

iamjenai link

8/5/2013 12:12:34 pm

Ruby Red looks good (oh well the cover) Love Italy! I'd like to try Beautiful Ruins one of these days!

Happy Monday!

Jenai

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:09:35 am

I love the covers of both the books. Ruby Red is so fancy, and Beautiful Ruins is beautiful Italy!

Vicki link

8/5/2013 12:27:48 pm

So many good books! Hope you enjoy them all!
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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:11:29 am

Thanks! I've been enjoying them so far!

Elizabeth link

8/5/2013 12:32:03 pm

Nice week. Beautiful Ruins looks great.

ENJOY!!!!

Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:12:13 am

Beautiful Ruins IS great. Not quite what I expected, but oh so good.

Nise' link

8/5/2013 12:38:20 pm

I've read such good reviews for Ruby Red, I will have to put it on my TBR list.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:13:11 am

You definitely should. It's a pretty quick read, and it's about time travel, so it's fun!

Lindsey link

8/5/2013 04:33:10 pm

A book per day sounds wonderful! I am certainly suffering from my own stack of library books, although most of them are read and just not reviewed yet...

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:15:53 am

I've kept up the pace so far. I finished Beautiful Ruins last night. Next up - Every Day by David Levithan!

Belle Read link

8/6/2013 02:07:20 am

Ruby Red looks good. I have wanted to read Beautiful Ruins for a long while. With all of the books from the past, along with all of the books that are being released each week, I end up missing a lot of good books, I am sure.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 03:16:45 am

It's hard to think about all the wonderful books out there that we may never read, isn't it? I guess all we can do is enjoy the ones we do read!

Kimberly @ Turning the Pages

8/6/2013 05:45:17 am

Whoa! I literally have every single one of the books you mentioned today on my tbr list (which is HUGE) so I'm hoping to one day read them. I hope you enjoy your books this week!
Come see my <a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2013/08/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-63.html">It's Monday! Post</a> :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/6/2013 01:19:36 pm

You've got some good books on your TBR list, then! All of these were on my massive TBR list, too. I'm so glad the library had them, and I can start whittling down the list!