October 22, 2012 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.

Mailbox Monday is currently on tour, hosted by a different blog each month. The October host is Marcia at The Mailbox Monday Blog.

More audiobooks this week, which is a good thing since I’ve been listening twice as much as I’ve been reading.

For review from Harper Audio:

Live By Night
by Dennis Lehane

Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city’s most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. more

The Uninvited Guests
by Sadie Jones

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor—and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. more

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

Share what you read last week and what you are currently reading.

This will be another big week for audio as I get the house and garden ready for (blech) winter. I got the garden shed painted yesterday, now I have to get the patio furniture cleaned and put away, plants that overwinter inside need to be dug up and potted, more spring bulbs planted, leaves raked and garden beds mulched. I could go on and on, it’s endless!

Reading/Listening This Week:

I have a backlog of reviews to write this week. I finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen, In the Tall Grass by Stephen King and Joe Hill, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison, and The Dog Stars by Peter Heller.

This week I’m listening to The Long Earth and reading The Shortest Way Home.