It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are 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 your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date. Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels or anything in those genres – join them.
I hope you all had a great week. I’ve spent most of this post trying to figure out how WordPress works in these blocks layout. Driving me crazy but I’ve got something together!
When I went back to the library to return my books I enquired at the desk and found my card had been handed in. Funny how happy I was to be reunited with it!
I did have a good reading week. Sometimes reading just goes down smoothly. Really enjoyed them all. Poet X was a surprise to me in that I zipped through it. I almost just returned it to the library but decided to give it a go. Loved it! YA coming of age story written in a kind of a verse. Very moving.
What I read last week:
What I am reading now:
I am just starting to read this today from my TBR shelf.
And I am listening to
Up next:
A review book.
Last Week’s Posts
Writers in Characters in Books
The Book Date 
Just think of each paragraph as a block. An image is a separate block. A heading is a block.
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Yay for being reunited with your library card! The Wiggs book is on my TBR and I’ve found that Roberts books’ are the best audio books. I always enjoy them when I go that route. I’m not sure I’ve read Hideaway so I need to pick that one up!
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Hideaway story was pretty similar to many of her other books, but January LaVoy the narrator is so good she saves the story.
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Hi there Kathryn! Last week I had such a good reading week. But we were on holidays…. This week school started on Monday and it’s now Wednesday afternoon her in SA and I have hardly read 2 pages of any book. Some weeks you win, others you just don’t!
The lost and found bookshop has such an enticing title! Will look into it.
Hope you are having a good week.
Elza Reads
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Indeed Mareli some weeks just mean a few pages read, because of all that is going on.
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I read Poet X, and I liked it. However, I was left wishing I could have read the narrator’s poems instead of the book’s verse about her writing the poems. I’m a reluctant verse novel reader.
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Happy reading this week!
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I’m getting used to the block editor, but I had to give up using my templates from before and create new ones (that aren’t really templates, but draft posts that I can copy and use). Poet X is on my TBR list!
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Poet X is great and my draft posts seem to work but is a bit of a learning curve for sure.
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Whoops! I finished my Monday post by lunchtime but then completely forgot to link it up here! Better late than never, right?
I’ve been wanting to read The Poet X, too – glad you enjoyed it! Also glad to hear you got your library card back 🙂 You are so lucky you can go into your library! Ours is still curbside pickup only, and I miss it.
Enjoy your books this week & thanks for hosting the linkup – glad I finally remembered it!
Sue
Book By Book
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The Karen White book looks like it would be a good Halloween read based on the cover.
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That’s great you got your card back! Have a lovely week!
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I have a secondary blog which is WordPress, and I don’t like the blocks either.
Great reading week for you…LOVED THE BOOKSHOP OF LOST AND FOUND.
LOVE Karen White’s books.
ENJOY this new week, Kathryn.
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Glad you have been reunited with your library card! Blogger is giving me fits as well.
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Glad you were reunited with your library card It’s the little things, right? 🙂 I have Susan Wiggs’ book on my TBR list. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a great week!
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Wow great to get your card back. You had quite the week Kathryn thanks for sharing
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So pleased you have been reunited with that precious library card. Wishing you another great reading week!
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Ack, I really struggled with WP’s block editor, too, but it does get easier…
Really loved Marilynne Robinson’s Jack–so good to hear from her again.
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I liked A Place For Us – a good family drama.
Have a good week, Kathryn. Glad your card was turned in!
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I’m glad you got your card back! It’s a bit panic-inducing when you can’t find it, isn’t it? Yay for good reading weeks! I hope this one is even better!
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Great list of books this week. How did you like The Strangers on Montagu Street? Hope you have a great week.
http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2020/10/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-oct-5.html
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I really enjoyed the Strangers of Montagu Street. Good on audio. I want to listen to the next one soon!
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I’ve had problems with new Blogger as well. Drove me nuts this week! Guess we’re all struggling with editors and whatnot now. Par for the course in 2020 I guess haha!
Glad the books were good this week. 🙂
Sorry I linked twice- the first one links to the wrong post sorry!!!
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Not a problem Greg. Just concentrate on getting well.
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I had to learn the new blogger for my site and then this week fumbled through the new WordPress at Mailbox Monday. Neither new forms seem any easier to me. 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed your reading and found your library card.
Stay well and Happy Reading!
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How nice that you got your library card back. Your books look great. I haven’t read Emilie Richards in awhile, but this looks like a good one. Hope you have a great week!
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I am glad you got your library card back. Thanks for hosting. Have a wonderful week.
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Yeah, I had to get used to the new blogger. Such a pain, but eventually you adapt. Poet X sounds like my kind of read. Glad they found your library card!
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Thanks for hosting and sharing, Kathryn. I found that one block called Classic Block worked best for me, but it wasn’t easy. It had a mind of its own, lol.
Your books look really good. I want to read Strangers on Montagu Street and Fugitive.
Enjoy your week, and by next weekend, maybe we will be pros at the Block system. LOL.
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Hoping for pro status by next week!!
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You’ll get used to it. Each block is like a section of your post. I usually use these blocks: paragraph, image, and list. Sometimes for an image I’ll use image and text (this one you can adjust the size of the font, etc.) or mason.
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I guess I will get used to it Setfanie, just takes a bit of new learning I guess!
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It does; I learned by clicking around. It was really weird at first but well, I started using that editor format b/c it was easier to insert audio in a post.
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I can see actually the images look better in this format so that’s a plus.
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Great reads – I’m looking forward to reading Wiggs’ book as well as Poet X. Will have to check out the others.
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