It's Monday. What are you reading?

 

Here's what I'm reading this week:

In the car on audiobook:
11/22/63 by Stephen King


For review (coming soon): 

Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Daniel McCaig (in time for its publication date October 14)

Reading for work:



The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
"Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's Daughter," both short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And reading for fun:

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel by Suzanne Joinson

What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. 

It's Monday! What are you reading? (Holiday week edition)

 

It's a short week around here, which gives me a little more time for reading. I'm feeling ambitious. Here's what I'm reading this week:

In the car on audiobook: The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant.

On my iPod: On Folly Beach by Karen White.

For review (coming soon): 

The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera (in time for its publication date July 8)

Wedding in Provence: A Novel by Ellen Sussman (publication date July 15)

And pulled from my stack that I've been looking forward to reading:

Hiding Edith by Kathy Kacer

Call me Zelda by Erika Robuck

Guests on Earth by Lee Smith

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. 

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

Here's what I'm reading this week:

In the car on audiobook: The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant.

On my iPod: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

For review (coming soon): 

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter

What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

My summer has begun! Late last week I wrapped up my spring semester at an Atlanta-area homeschool group where I teach middle school American history, and high school American literature and advanced literature and composition. These past two semesters have had me reading a lot to keep up with them. Now that school is out for me until the fall, I've got an ambitious reading list planned for the summer. Here's what's at the top of my stack:

In the car on audiobook: I'm waiting for one of several options to come up for me at the library. So for now, just a lot of 90s on 9.

On my iPod: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg

For fun (and variety): 
Jason Priestley: A Memoir by Jason Priestley
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter

What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

It's Monday. What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

Here's what I've got on tap for this February 10th week:

For the classes I'm teaching: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

For upcoming review: Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell.

If it snows in Atlanta like it sounds like it might, I may be able to dive into something else.

What are you reading?

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

Here's what I've got on tap for this September 23rd week:

For the classes I'm teaching: The Scarlet Letter, On Writing Well, and Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States, plus selections from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

For upcoming review: Elizabeth Gilbert's latest, The Signature of All Things.

For fun (and on audiobook): Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

What are you reading?

It's Monday. What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

Here's what I've got on tap for this July 4 week:

Reading:
Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho
Finding Colin Firth by Mia March for review next week
Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton

Listening:
Pawley's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank

Working on:
Edits on chapters of a Southern historical fiction novel
A feature article for Georgia Connector magazine
A grant draft for a nonprofit organization
Wrapping up syllabi for this fall's Advanced Composition and American Literature
Editing an article for an academic journal

And more blogging!

Monday....

It's Monday. What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog.

I'm currently enjoying Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again. It's been patiently waiting on my shelf for me to pick it up ever since I visited the Old Kentucky Home on a trip to Asheville several years ago. It will definitely take me the rest of the week to finish it. 

 

 

Up next on my to-read list are The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell (for future book review) and Elaine Neil Orr's A Different Sun (also for future book review).

Also, I'm still currently listening to The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Migration by Isabel Wilkerson in the car. 

What are you reading?

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog. Meanwhile, here's what I'm up to this week:

Currently reading: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (I'm completely engrossed)

Currently listening: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Reading this week:  

Charles Dickens by Simon Callow (this one keeps getting bumped back but it's next in the queue)
Anne Leigh Parrish's Our Love Could Light the World, a short story collection I'll soon be reviewing

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog. Meanwhile, here's what I'll be reading this week:

Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online by Daniel Post Senning (review coming soon!)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. This is the last novel I've assigned to my class of high schoolers for the semester. I've got to get it reread it before they're finished with Angela's Ashes.
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow (I saw the play in London back in the fall.)

Another thing I'm looking forward to this week is hearing Jill McCorkle talk about her latest book, Life After Life, which I reviewed a few weeks ago. She'll be at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta tomorrow night, Tuesday 4/30 at 7. You can purchase tickets on their website.

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Go check out her blog. Meanwhile, here's what I'll be reading this week. I'm feeling ambitious:

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell (I need to get in a book where I don't have to think after Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson, which I finished over the weekend. If you've read this book you probably understand.)
Rereading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I've assigned this to my high school literature class to read over spring break. I hope they're enjoying it.
Z by Therese Anne Fowler (I can't wait to start this one!)
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow (I saw the play in London back in the fall.)

It's Monday! What are you reading?

 

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Here's what I'll be reading this week:

Finishing All Quiet on the Western Front for class discussion Thursday 
Continuing with Tender is the Night, my audiobook in the car
Starting Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson. My book club is waiting on me to read it so we can all discuss.
And, I'm very excited to be reviewing Jill McCorkle's latest novel, Life After Life

It's Monday. What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Here's what I'll be reading this week:

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker for a book review coming soon
Starting The Lincoln Lawyer on my iPod
Starting The Finkler Question in the car
Reading The Things They Carried and A Separate Peace because I'll soon be assigning them to my class

Happy reading!

It's Monday. What are you reading?

This event is hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing Tracy Chevalier's latest, The Last Runaway, and posting a review
Getting familiar with the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook (exciting, right?)
Starting my next review book, Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Reading Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find your Life (my office is a mess right now. I need to fix that)
And I'm waaaaay behind in my fun magazine reading

It's Monday. What are you reading?

Though I haven't done this in a while, I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Starting Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Continuing to listen to American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin in the car
A magazine or two

It's Monday! What are you reading?

Though I haven't done this in awhile (I've fallen down on the blogging all the way around, my apologies!), I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Starting Lincoln, Inc. by Jackie Hogan for future book review
Starting Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (I've really been looking forward to this one!)
Continuing to listen to True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy in the car
Maybe a magazine or two
Awaiting the arrival of a book I've ordered called Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today by Judi Kingry and Lauren Devine, because here's what's going on in my yard right now, and it's just the beginning:

Happy reading!

It's Monday! What are you reading?

I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey (be sure to visit her site). Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan for future book review

And reading the follow (I'm ambitious this week!):
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo 
Quietly in Their Sleep by Donna Leon
How Nancy Drew Saved My Life by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It's Monday! What are you reading?

I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey (be sure to visit her site). Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Starting Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan for future book review

It will be a busy week, so if I can do those things, I'll be doing well. Happy reading!

It's Monday! What are you reading?

I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey (be sure to visit her site). Here's what I'll be doing this week:

Finishing Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall for future book review
Reading The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada and translated by Martha Tennet
January 2012 issue of Our State Magazine
Starting The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Starting Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan for future book review

It's Monday! What are you reading?

I'm participating in this event hosted by Sheila from Book Journey (be sure to visit her site). Here's what I'll be reading this week:

Reading Heaven is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy by Stephanie Nielsen for future book review

Starting Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall for future book review
Starting The Cider House Rules by John Irving