It's Monday! What are You Reading?
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? |
The sections of this template:
Intro (here)
My Week in Review (list of books finished and links to bookish posts in the previous week)
Reading Now (my current reading list broken up into NF and Fiction)
Upcoming (scheduled reviews and blog tours and list of finished books awaiting reviews)
Recently (links to bookish posts in the last few weeks)
New Arrivals: (lists of recently acquired ARC broken up into snail mail, email and Net Gallery)
ARC in waiting (a list that is getting shamefully long)
My Week in Review:
My Journey As a Combat Medic by Patrick Thibeault The blog tour for this is going on now. My review from Tuesday and the author interview on Wednesday.
There was also quite a bit of bookish activity this past week. I got to go to the Longview library and check out over 20 items on my sister's card. And I started organizing the bookish related tasks in my Master Task List focusing especially on the ARCs. Among other things, I created a spreadsheet for the ARCs. They've just been coming in too fast for me to depend on my email inbox and archive. Have been for some months. So it was past time to do this. Hopefully I will be getting the reviews up with more alacrity now. *scrunched face*
Finished reading:
Never Give in to Fear by Marti MacGibbon This was a NetGalley ARC but later I picked it up for Kindle when it was free on Amazon. I began it in Adobe Digital Editions and when that timed out on me switched to the Kindle for PC. This was a memoir of an addict's decent into the abyss and rise back out again and was quite engrossing.
Reading Now:
Non-Fiction:
Most of these I plug way in at a snail's pace--a couple pages or chapters per week as that is my preferred way to read non-fic. It sticks with me longer. I'm closing in on the finish line for several but as I get close on one I tend to add two or three more. There are some not listed here because I don't read in them weekly.
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Go by Les Edgerton (Part of my ROW80 reading in craft list)
Get Your Loved One Sober by Robert Meyers (Research for a fiction WIP)
What to Do When There's Too Much to Do by Laura Stack (Part of my attempt to organize my life around my priorities. So part of my ROW80 reading list)
And So It Goes by Charles J. Sheilds a bio of Kurt Vonnegut. (I've posted about this biography of Kurt Vonnegut several time in a kind of reading journal. It is past time for another. Part of the fun I'm having reading this is in stopping to read the stories he wrote as the narrative reaches the point where he writes them. Since this is an author bio this will also be on my ROW80 reading list )
This Mobius Strip of Ifs by Mathias Freese (I've posted a reading journal post for this collection of personal essays also. It is past time for another.)
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Muller Net Galley a NF that purports to answer many puzzles in the Austen novels. Since this discusses writing and tecniques of fiction I'll be adding this to my ROW80 reading listThis Mobius Strip of Ifs by Mathias Freese (I've posted a reading journal post for this collection of personal essays also. It is past time for another.)
Jung and the Tarot: An Archetypal Journey by Sallie Nichols Since I'm reading this for an understanding of character type and the language of symbol understood by our unconscious this will be on my ROW80 reading list
13 Ways of Looking at a Novel by Jane Smiley This was one of the 24 items I checked out of the Longview library on my sister's card last Thursday.
Fiction:
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (audio from library) Was listening to this while working on this Xmas crochet project and have not gotten back to it since Christmas. If I wait too much longer I'm going to have to restart it yet again. Or at least back up a ways to reorient.
After: The Shock by Scott Nicholson This is post apocalyptic horror with zombies. I anticipated enjoying this even tho zombies are not my favorite horror theme because I really enjoyed his The Red Church and I am but probably not to the same degree.
Losses by Robert Wexelblatt
Flesh by Khanh Ha a novel set in Vietnam. This is physically a beautiful book. I will be participating in its blog tour this month with both review and author guest post. My Review is slated for Wednesday
The Civilized World by Susi Wyss (another a Tree book ARC that got lost in the mix before I'd finished it. Have not posted a review for this one either and can't remember when I received it but it had to be at least a year ago before I started packing for our move and likely before 2011 NaNo when I typically stop reading fiction while I'm so intensely writing it. This is a collection of interlocking short stories set in South Africa and I remember I was quite enjoying it. I've had to start it over.)
Lulu by Nancy Friday from NetGalley I started this one when I realized the ARC was about to time out on me. That is a frustration with NetGalley for me.
Upcoming:
Blog Tours:
Flesh by Khanha --a novel--January. Review Jan 16 and Author Guest Post Jan 25
Scammed by Art Maines Review January 30.
The Eighth Wonder by Kimberly S. Young. A novel. Review Feb 6
Before You Say I Do Again by Benjamin Berkley Review Feb 8
Against My Will by Benjamin Berkley Review Feb 20
Creature Features by Tim Rowland Review Mar 12
Books I've Finished Awaiting Reviews:
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The Land of Decoration by Grace McClean
Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Leher.
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Part of my attempt to organize my life around my priorities. So part of my ROW80 reading list. I discussed this in such detail in my mid-week ROW80 check-in post it was practically a review and I'll probably copy/paste much of what I said there into the review.
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan This was a Net Galley ARC. It will be archived on Net Galley on January 8th it's pub date and tho I finished it last week I was unable to get the review posted and now I have the two blog tour posts to put up this week so for the third or forth time I'm not going to get my feedback recorded at Net Galley before the feedback page for the item is closed to me. tsk tsk tsk.
Recently:
___Reviews and Bookish Posts:
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Another bookish post: Friday Forays in Fiction: The Role of the Library In which I discuss the importance of the library for story lovers both readers and writer and bemoan the still truncated hours of our local library system and scold those who would argue that libraries are becoming obsolete and thus funding for them less important.
Later on the same theme: Do We Still Need Libraries?
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This was one of my favorite ARCs of the 2012.
If Dr. Seuss had written a novel it would be just like this--whimsical, charming, colorful as an artist's palette, with moral values wrapped in parables like peaches in whipped cream, with epic struggles of good against evil and full of the wonder and wisdom only ever comprehended by the heart of a child. This story will speak to every child heart aged 8 to 88.
New Arrivals:
By email:
The Eighth Wonder by Kimberly S. Young. A novel. For a blog tour coming soon.
Scammed by Art Maines For a blog tour starting later this month. My Review is slated for January 30. This is NF about the various scams perpetrated on senior citizens.
Creature Features by Tim Rowland
from NetGalley
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch
With or Without You A Memoir by Domenica Ruta
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
The Book of Why by Nicholas Montemarano
ARC in waiting:
Tree Books:
The Variations by John Donatich
The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith My husband read this and loved it and is after me to read it so he can talk about it.
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller Nobel winner!!
Skios by Michael Frayn
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Sadness of the Samurai by Victor del Arbo
Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman
Winter Journal by Paul Auster a memoir from an American literary figure that really excites me.
We Sinners by Hanna Pylvaine. It's another story exploring the impact on family life of a fundamentalist religion. One of the themes I'm drawn to like Pooh to honey.
Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 compiled by The Organization Breaking the Silence
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
Ebooks:
____By email:
After: The Shock by Scott Nicholson
Losses by Robert Wexelblatt This arrived a couple months ago but I somehow neglected to put include it in this list before
____From Net Galley:
A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Muller
Never Give in to Fear by Marti MacGibbon
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Unloched by Candace Lemon-Scott
Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
by Emily Bazelon
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch
With or Without You A Memoir by Domenica Ruta
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
The Book of Why by Nicholas Montemarano
If anyone reading this states a preference I may let it weigh my decision as to what I begin next from the above list.
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