It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
Welcome to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? This is a meme hosted by Sheila @ Book Journey; and I think it is great to start the week with what I’m reading right this minute, and what I’ll be reading (or planning on reading, anyway) for the rest of the week.
Please visit Sheila’s blog to sign up on her linky, that way you will have other Monday bloggers coming to visit you as well.
Last week, I read the following books:
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira. It’s a beautiful story, written in an epistolary fashion, and it’s very deep and sad.
Escape in You by Rachel Shürig is a dark New Adult romance, well written and gripping.
Cowboys and Kisses by Sasha Summers is a sweet contemporary YA romance, but it also deals with guilt, grief and sorrow.
Fire Inside (Chaos #2) by Kristen Ashley is a hardcore contemporary romance with mature characters, lots of steam, and amazing character growth.
A Matchless Romance (Aisle Bound #4) by Christi Barth is a cute contemporary romance, with a sexy video-game designer geek and a gorgeous matchmaker.
Wake to Darkness (De Luca and Brown #2) by Maggie Shayne is a fast-paced contemporary thriller/suspense/romance, and I was swept off my feet!
Right now, I’m reading :
Reprisal (The Time Weaver Chronicles #3) by Thomas A. Knight – it’s being released today! And it’s awesome! Time travel, fantasy, epic world and amazing characters.
Next up, I’m planning on reading:
Some ARCs – I am participating in the March version of COYER (Clean out your e-reader) challenge hosted by Berls of Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle of Because Reading is Better Than Real Life. I haven’t exactly planned what books to read yet, though, because as soon as I make a list – I don’t want to read any of the books on said list. It’s not too late to sign up! You can do so until March 8th 2014, and the rules are pretty simple. You can read e-books only, the books you read have to be either free (as in free for kindle or nook), ARCs or books that cost less than $5. It’s a great way to work through those books that are all too easy to one-click – because FREE or CHEAP! And it’s also a lot of fun to participate in this challenge, where other bloggers also host mini-challenges to spice things up in March.
Here’s what happened on (un)Conventional Bookviews this past week:
Review: Darkness Awakened (Darkness #1) – Katie Reus
Top Ten Tuesday #24 – On My Shelf Since Forever But Not Read Yet
Blogtour Review: Defining Destiny by Deanna Chase
Review: A Groom For Christmas – Cara Marsi
Review: Night Owls (Night Owls #1) – Lauren M. Roy
Review: The Russian Temptation (Foreign Affairs #2) – Nikki Navarre
Feature and Follow #75 – Plot Change
Stacking the Shelves #21 – From Shakespeare to Eve Langlais
Sidekick Showcase #37 – Best Costume
What are you reading this Monday? Did you enjoy the books you read last week? Please leave me a link to your post so I can visit you back!
Thanks for stopping by, have a fantastic week.
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
I know what you mean about making a list and then having a wandering eye. That happened to me last time. I’m going back and forth between Rock Chick and Odd Thomas. Complete opposites! Happy Monday, Lexxie!
Yeah, I have so many things I have no choice but to read for classes, so I want my read-for-fun time to be free 🙂
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Ooh nice! Those are new to me! Yeah I plan on doing the COYER Challenge too. Especially since I just added another 2 ebooks. My goal now might be 7. I have probably a few more on there, but not sure if I am in the mood to read them. I like to be able to knock out the physical ones on my TBR pile because then it at least looks like I made a dent in them!
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I can totally understand wanting to make a dent in your actual physical TBR pile, Jessica. I hardly have any physical books anymore, and since my click-finger is trigger-happy, I always end up with way too many e-books every week.
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I haven’t got into e books for that reason, I just can not find time for them when I am surrounded by real books. I want to as they have some wonderful offers, I just know that unless I take myself out of the real book area… it will sit on my e reader forever.
Have a super week 🙂
If I could get actual physical books here, at the same time as they are released in the US, I might not have switched to e-books, either, Sheila. But since it sometimes takes over a month, and I’m very impatient, that just won’t do. Also, books cost at least the double here – so I am able to get more books this way.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a super week yourself 🙂
That makes perfect sense, that is the route I would go too in that case 🙂
I started a new book by a local author.
The Insider’s Story (A Lance Carter Detective Novel) by Bruce A. Sarte
It has odd spacing and huge margins, but the first chapter really caught my attention because it starts with a drive by shooting near the Moshulu…so the setting is drawing me in. 🙂
It’s awesome when you read a book, and you actually know where the story is happening 🙂 I’m glad you’re enjoying it, Xyra!
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Reprisal sounds interesting…I’ll have to check out the series. I’m reading Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool right now. Love, love, love!!!
Have a great week Lexxie!
Reprisal is really good so far! I have truly enjoyed the first two books in this series, too. It’s a mix of high fantasy, magic, time travel and contemporary.
I can’t wait to start The Undead Pool!!! I’m happy to know you love it 🙂
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I am doing the #COYER challenge to and I know all about making a list and then not wanting to read them. I went ahead and made a list anyway..lol. So we will see how much I hold to it when it comes to reading 🙂
Happy reading!
I love the sound of Love Letters to the Dead and I like the epistolary style … putting it on my wishlist. Have a great week and happy reading 🙂
Can I just say that I can’t wait to read your reviews on every single book you read last week because every single one of them is on my TBR?!? Well, I’m saying it! *ha* EVERY.SINGLE.ONE! Especially because you say they were all GOOD! Yay! I hope this week’s reads are equally as fabulous, Lexxie! *BIG HUGS*