It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!
Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – join them!
It’s been a quiet week for me, some reading and gardening (although not nearly enough gardening!).
Watched some sport over the weekend. Nothing wrong with quiet!
What I read last week:
Stars of Fortune – great start to new trilogy: 4 stars
Along an Infinite Sea – 4.5 stars
Incapable – 4.5 stars
That Christmas Feeling 3.5 stars. (3 novellas to read out my last day in October)
What I am reading at present:
Still listening to:
Reading:
So time to read one that’s been on my TBR a long time. One of those 2nd hand Book Fairs from a number of years past!!
Up next:
Forever This Time – Maggie McGinnis
The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Posts from the last week:
- The Precious One Marisa de los Santos
- Cleopatra’s Shadows Emily Holleman
- Fitreaders Check in.
- Heartsong Cottage Emily March
- Month in Review – October
The Book Date 
I am so excited to start reading Christmas books! I don't let myself start them until after Halloween ~ they are like a treat I don't want to rush. 🙂 I am a weirdo. Lol. That Christmas Feeling looks really good!
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Ok…thanks.
Mine went up today.
I see you commented. 🙂 THANKS.
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Great list Kathryn, I've got my copy of Beatriz William's The Infinite Sea on my TBR shelf I can't wait to read it. She is one of my all time faves. Right now I'm reading and enjoying Heartsong Cottage.
Sorry I haven't been around much lately 😦
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I agree….retirement is wonderful.
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I love that you snuck in some Christmas stories, in October. 🙂
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You've got some wonderful reads awaiting you!
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No Elizabeth no review posted for it yet. I have written it but will probably be next week before I post it. I see yours is coming soon.
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Yvonne nice to know of someone else who is in their first year of retirement. The All Blacks do a great haka, wow their faces sure show commitment!
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I'm not a rugby fan, but I always enjoy watching the All Blacks do the haka.
I'm also in my first year of retirement and enjoying more reading and gardening too. Love it that I can read all night if the mood takes me and not have to go to work feeling like death warmed up!
Beatriz Williams is a very popular author judging by the comments. The Secret Life of Violet Grant has been sitting in my reading pile for a while. It may be time to bump it up the list.
Enjoy your week.
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Quiet is good! I like the cover of Along an Infinite sea, it looks like a glamorous resort somewhere and I'd like to be there! Hope you have a nice week- with lots of gardening. It's always nice to spend time outdoors.
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Sue I am retired – first year. I do hardly anything, just enjoying the shear fabulousness of no commitments!
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i so wanna read Along an Infinite Sea, I think I will start this one tonight
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Your books look great…I loved Infinite Sea…but I love this author's books.
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The secret of Everything looks great. I like quiet weeks like that 🙂 Hope you have a good one!
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I love a quiet weekend. I'm lucky as we usually have one where my man gets to relax after a hard week and the kids go outside to play with the neighbors.
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I have been on the fence about Along the Infinite Sea…but I do adore that cover!!
Enjoy your books this week!
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I'm jealous of how many books you read each week! How do you find the time? I've been especially slow lately.
My book group and I really enjoyed The Language of Flowers – hope you like it!
Enjoy your books this week –
Sue
Book By Book
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Would like to read “Along The Infinite Sea,” and I really enjoy Debbie Macomber. Hope you enjoy doing this meme.
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I absolutely loved The Language of Flowers. And I love that the Christmas stories are starting. Happy reading everyone.
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I keep hearing how wonderful Beatriz Williams is but I haven't managed to read her yet. Soon, I hope!
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I'm trying to read some of the older books from my stack too. It is hard when there are so many interesting new ones to choose. Here is a summary of my week. Happy reading!
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I don't see a review…am I missing it? 🙂
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Going to check out your review of Along The Infinite Sea. I really enjoyed it. I like her books.
ENJOY The Language of Flowers. I read it and enjoyed it. I haven't gotten to her newest book.
Have a wonderful week. ENJOY your gardening.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
My It's Monday, What Are You Reading
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I'm glad to see Along the Infinite Sea was great – I've got that and hope to get to it soon! I'm kind of saving it for when I need something light!
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All those books look so good. It's been awhile since I read Nora Roberts and Debbie Macomber, but I so love their books. Have a great week!
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Happy reading this week!
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I'll take one of each of those books. They all look good.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with a quiet week. And you certainly got a lot of great reading done. I haven't read any of the authors you've got listed here, but I've got several Nora Roberts books on my TBR list. Hope to get to at least one of them very soon. Thanks for hosting, and happy reading this week!
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Yep! The wink was for you!
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I agree, quiet weeks are good! I haven't read anything by Beatriz Williams but the cover for Along the Infinite Sea drew me in. I'm thrilled to hear it's also a wonderful read. Oh yay, you've got The Language of Flowers up next … I'm doing a happy dance lol. Hope you love it!! Stars of Fortune is on my reading list, just not sure when.
Have a wonderful week Kathryn and happy reading and gardening 🙂
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Nise it is me that holds me back from the gardening… I prefer reading!
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Ha, I just had to scroll up to see if I was reading that! Of course I'm listening to it!! And yes heard great things about The Language of Flowers so picked it up at the library.
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Ah yes! I didn't watch it live but watched later in the day! You have to have some interest in rugby here or you just get left for dust! My love is cricket but we are not nearly as good at that as rugby!
I just read what I see, not particularly because it's two months away from Christmas. Likely to read none around that time!
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I am eager to get Stars of Fortune…and I love the look of The Secret of Everything. Enjoy your week! Thanks for hosting….
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Looks like a good reading week. A new Nora Roberts book, it looks like a good book. The Christmas book you read has some authors I love, I will need to see if I can find it!
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I don't know where that place is on the cover of Along the Infinite Sea, but I want to be there! I've finally backed up my hard drive so now I'm cleaning up all the photos I've had saved on it forever. That means a lot of trips down memory lane. My husband and I have vacation fever now, even though we just got back! Enjoy your week!
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I Love Beatriz Williams…can't wait to read Along the Infinite Sea!
Quiet is good 🙂
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A quiet week can be really nice.
I liked Along the Infinite Sea. I still haven't read The Language of Flowers. It's been on my TBR list for years. Hope you enjoy it!
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Hope more gardening time comes your way. We just picked up leaves and pulled out all the annuals. Glad the Nora Roberts trilogy got off to a great start. I have yet to read the Cousin O'Dwyer trilogy. Have a great week.
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Wishing you more gardening time and I hope you like The Language of Flowers as much as I did. I've got The Secret of Everything on my list.
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I guess I can work out what sport you watched over the weekend? I have to admit I really didn't care and didn't see any of the world cup. I was once into sport, but not for a long time now!
And I'm kinda depressed to see Christmas books already but guess that's inevitable! Argh!
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I've got two of your books and looking forward to both of them = Beatriz Williams books are so good. Enjoy all your reads.
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The Secret of Everything looks good. I read Flight Lessons years ago – before I was reviewing. As I recall I liked it even though it is relationship drama which is not my fav genre.
I hope you have another good week reading and gardening.
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