It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

I hope everyone is having a great Monday! It's raining here again (I feel like everytime I write a post it's raining).

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This past weekend I participated in the #24in48 readathon hosted at Home Between Pages and finished two books- The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson and Attachments by Rainbow Rowell.  I didn't make any progress on The Name of the Wind or Peter Pan so *hopefully* I will finish them sometime this month.

In My Mailbox this week are two new books. Dreams of Gods and Monsters, the conclusion of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor will download to my Kindle at midnight.  I also picked up a physical copy of Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. I was debating on buying or borrowing this book from the library but the first few lines had me hooked and I had to get it:

"I first discovered I was trash three days before my ninth birthday - one year after my father lost his job and moved to Secaucus to live with a woman who lived with a woman named Crystal and four years before my mother had the car accident, started taking pills, and began exclusively wearing bedroom slippers instead of normal shoes."

This week I have a few posts already planned - a review for The Hangman's Daughter and for The Amityville Horror as well as a Waiting on Wednesday post for some of the books I've requested at my library.

Here's to a good week! Let me know what you've got going on in the comments.

This Just In

I know I just posted books I purchased from Amazon.com a few days ago, but my local library was having their annual book sale and fall festival this past weekend so I couldn't help but stop by and pick up a few things, right? It's totally guilt free shopping. (Except for that time when I said I would no longer be buying books for a few months... oops!).

Here is what I bought:

• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (also a movie)
• The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
• The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
• Zorro by Isabel Allende
• The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

I honestly have no idea what these books are about apart from the descriptions on the inside covers.  A majority of these books seem to be about down and out characters that have to fight circumstances beyond their control to succeed in life.. I'm okay with that. 

Have you bought anything new lately?

Where Have I Been? | This Just In

Ooops.. I disappeared for a week.  It happens.  I am in the final planning stages for my wedding (just one more week!) so the literary aspect of my life has taken a backseat to everything else.  I started reading Wuthering Heights last weekend, and am about 30% way through it right now.

This Just In

Even though I haven't had much time to read, I was tempted to buy a few books on Amazon.  I bought The Witches by Roald Dahl in honor of Roald Dahl Day (September 13) and I plan on finishing and reviewing that tonight.  I also bought Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, a short story anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan.  All of these books were inspired by Chels from Chels&ABook.  They are lighter and shorter reads to break up the more serious novels I am focusing on for the RIPVIII read-a-thon and a fun way to get in the Halloween spirit.

How is your September reading going so far? Are you in full swing for the RIPVIII read-a-thon yet?

This Just In - September 1

Happy Sunday, everyone! I hope you are enjoying the long weekend we have in the U.S. for Labor Day.

 I know I said a few posts ago that I wasn't going to pick up any new books for a while, but I just happened upon Nightfilm by Marisha Pessl in my local Books a Million.  I first heard about this book from Chels and a Book on YouTube (she also has a blog!).  She posted a rave review about it last week that piqued my interest.  Nightfilm is a literary thriller, and since it fits in perfectly with the theme RIPVIII I bought it without hesitation when I first saw it. 

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Have you picked up any good books lately?