April 30, 2012 / Leslie

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

Mailbox Monday

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 April host is Cindy’s Love of Books.

A couple of new books arrived last week, even though I said I wasn’t requesting any. The Age of Miracles is for a tour in June and I couldn’t pass up The 500, an upcoming novel from Regan Arthur Books. They both sound so good.

For review from the publisher:

The 500
by Matthew Quirk

Mike Ford is a former con artist who’s been plucked from his Harvard Law School classroom to be an associate at The Davies Group, Washington’s most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm. Their specialty: pulling strings and peddling influence for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway, the men and women who really run Washington — and by extension the country, and the world. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out.

For review from TLC Tours:

Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.

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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.

Gardening season means more audiobooks and less print books for the past few weeks.

In my mind I am developing a landscaping project that I have wanted to start for several years now. And since I still haven’t found a new job, now would be a perfect time to put all this extra energy (haha) into digging up some of the front lawn and replacing it with native wildflowers and shrubs.

Any good landscaping books or plant recommendations would be appreciated. My library has so many choices I’m not sure where to start!

Finished Listening/Reading Last Week:

Unnatural Acts is the latest Stone Barrington novel (#23) by Stuart Woods. Although better than the previous book, sometimes a series just runs it’s course.

I listened to The Gunslinger for The Stephen King Project. It wasn’t what I expected and I’ll have more on that soon when I post the review.

Stay Awake was a delightfully creepy selection of short stories. Short stories don’t always work for me but these were exceptional with only a few misses out of the twelve.