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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Kathryn

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.

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Hope you all had a good week, I hear many from the USA talking about the hot, sticky conditions. Ouch. We’ve had mildish, coolish, wet conditions. To be honest though it doesn’t feel like we’ve had a decent winter – which I love! Send in the cold before its too late!

I finished a quilt for a grandniece, looking at the sky today, it’s blue, so just maybe I could wash it. I don’t have a dryer so I depend on the weather, there is very little wind though and will be about 14 degrees C, so???

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

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And still listening to Nina Hill.

Up next:

This one is a possibility from the library, will depend on what I feel like when I get to the next book!

Last Week’s Posts

Five Bookish Books

Are You Influenced by Book Covers?

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Kathryn

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Hope you all had a great week. I am just recovering from the Cricket World Cup which I know none of you, not one, are into… but its my favourite viewer sport. Our national team got into the final and played England and lost at the last moment on a rule differential. It was nail biting this morning. Fantastic game. We didn’t lose, but… we didn’t win. Congratulations to England. To our Black Caps team – so proud of you.

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

I have started listening to…

I am reading…

One from the TBR shelf

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The Golden Hour. Beatriz Williams

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Kathryn

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I had a good reading week. I finished my audiobook, enjoyed The Golden Hour and then sat by the fire and read Wolf Rain, which was perfect fireside reading. I had one DNF which is going back to the library.

Apart from that, just very wintry weather, one day I couldn’t go for a walk but other than that I have wrapped up and ventured out. Today looks a little better, we’ll see.

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

I am listening to…

And reading…

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Last Week’s Posts

Five New to Me Authors I Enjoyed

Library Love – How I am Doing.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? This July!

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Kathryn

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Well, welcome to the second half of the year!

This week my computer died, I’ve had it for seven years and it has given me great service… but still I want it to last longer. I was thinking it’s the price for technology advancement. Everything advances and is soon out of date. Ouch.

After some thought I bought a MacBook Air, being a Mac fan – on the whole. It is thinner than my MacBook Pro but I have easily got used to it. I discovered Safari would not let me comment on Blogger sites, which took up some of my time yesterday. However I then downloaded Google Chrome which does let me, so I guess I’ll be going between the two browsers.

How long do you expect a computer to last?!

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

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Jackson Emily March

Connect Five Books. June – August

June Reading Digest

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Kathryn

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Well we have passed the solstice! For me that means the days will start to lengthen, not that I mind those darker days. I need to stop and look at some of my plans for 2019 and see what I still want to accomplish.

What I read last week:

I also had one DNF – Crashing the A-List by Summer Heacock. I wasn’t the audience for this book I believe. Not to my taste.

What I am reading now:

I started listening to and l am liking it as I get into it.

And I have just started reading today

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Up next:

I am not too sure but maybe

Last Week’s Posts

A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards.

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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Kathryn

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So far we are having a very mild winter. But July is usually the coldest. I have been having troubles with my computer freezing etc. I never know what it will do. I have had this Macbook Air for about seven years, do hope it lasts a little longer! However I did find that my Ipad will work fine on the site so I am happy to know there is back up!

I enjoyed both the books I read this week, I seem to be a little slow with my audiobook, but at least I have started listening to the book again. My problem is that I enjoy silence!

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

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One Minute Later Susan Lewis

Those Sister Relationships – Connect Five Books

Audiobook Mid Year Update

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Apologies to those who came and found the incorrect linky, hope its okay now! I have added those who left their link so should be good now!

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Kathryn

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I am joining one more challenge for this year. The 2019 Big Book Summer Reading Challenge. Oh dear, I am involved in so much summer stuff as I sit in the beginning of winter. But that’s how the deal goes sometimes! Sue over at Book By Book hosts this challenge. (She is a regular on It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? for a very long time.) Books need to be 400 pages or more. I am going to go in with three books and here they are.

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What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

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The Other Half of Augusta Hope Joanna Glen

Backbone Power: The Science of Saying No Anne Brown

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Kathryn

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Not much going on here. Unseasonably warm for Autumn ending though. I don’t know where the days go to though, they pass so quickly. I am endeavouring to get out walking each day, in the spirit of do something for thirty days in a row and the habit might stick! I went to the city on Friday and then when I got home was too lazy to walk, so beginning the thirty all over again!

What I read last week:

Tell Me Three Things I absolutely loved, The Lemon Sisters is for a coming review, The Mother-in-law was very good on audio and To Night Owl from Dogfish was a really delightful middle grade fiction book that I fell in love with.

What I am reading now:

I am enjoying this slightly Pride and Prejudice twist, set in modern day Canada and about a Muslim couple. This has a different cover to the USA one, which comes out in June. Ayesha has a fondness for a purple hijab and purple notebook (she likes to write poetry) so of course she was immediately accepted by this reader.

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I am listening to

Up next:

A Family of Strangers is Emilie Richards book to be published in June, so happily will get into this one in the coming week.

I’ll most likely read something else as well but it will be a mood pick.

Last Week’s Posts

Have You Seen Luis Velez Catherine Ryan Hyde

Are You a Podcast Fan? and surprisingly not many are, I discovered in the comments.

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It’s Monday! What are You Reading this mid-May?

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 Kathryn

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Here’s my reading week. Hope yours was full of good reading.

I spent some of my time looking to organise new curtains for the house. Turns out I found that more difficult than I thought. Still haven’t made the final decision or received the quote yet! I finished two of the quilts I was making for the Christchurch shooting victims and posted them off to the coordinator. And I did some reading!

I looked through Modern Mrs Darcy’s Summer Reading Guide and picked out fifteen of the thirty books I’d like to read. We shall see! The Mother-in-Law is the first of them. The PDF of the guide is absolutely gorgeous.

What I read last week:

I was disappointed with this novel, I didn’t really connect to the main characters. It was a mishmash of a little magic and time travel and weirdness. It is the first in a trilogy and I won’t be reading the next ones published. I did see it through to the end as I was reading it as a challenge book and ouch $30 down the drain, but… someone will like it when I put it into this year’s fund raising Book Fair.

I then read the following one to clear my reading palate. When I was a teen Lucilla Andrews novels were sometimes serialised in the English Women’s Weekly or I read a few from the library later on. I bought this one from AbeBooks, but now I see they are republishing her books on Kindle and I’ll get them there from now on.

Lucilla Andrews was a nurse in London during WW2 and afterwards began to write romance novels although they read a little more like women’s fiction. This one Frontline 1940 is about the blitz in London and a nursing hospital. It has details in it that come from firsthand experience and its partly what makes me want to read everything she has written.

I finished listening to Southern Side of Paradise. I enjoyed it although found it a little repetitive.

Still good to finish the trilogy.

This one is a review book, at first I wasn’t sure if I liked it, but it ended up being a very interesting read. Review will follow.

What I am reading now:

Just started listening to…

And reading

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Kathryn

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What I read last week:

Enjoyed them all. The Book Club was written almost 20 years ago but I had to read it with a title like that and written by Mary Alice Monroe.

What I am reading now:

I am reading this one because a reading challenge I am doing needed an animal in the title. I had already bought this so it fitted. I loved her books Girl in Times Square and The Bronze Horseman so I decided I’d try out this, first in a series. I see Paullina grew up in Russia and now lives in the USA.

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Listening to…

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Up next:

Review book and new to me author.

Last Week’s Posts

Sunset Beach Mary Kay Andrews

The Little Teashop on Main Jodi Thomas

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