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 May host is Marths’s Bookshelf.

A couple of new books arrived last week and I requested one audiobook, a new title from Mary Higgins Clark. I’ve read a few of her books but this will be the first one in audio.

A win from Luxury Reading:

Wife 22
by Melanie Gideon

An irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.

“Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.”
 
 

For review from AmazonVine:

The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D
by Nichole Bernier

Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who’d lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth’s journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew. The more Kate reads, the more she learns the complicated truth of who Elizabeth really was, and rethinks her own choices as a wife, mother, and professional, and the legacy she herself would want to leave behind.
 

For review from the publisher:

The Lost Years
by Mary Higgins Clark

Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. His wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon.

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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.

I didn’t read as much as I thought I would last week. I’m not too sure where the time went!

I checked out a stack of library books on landscaping and designing no-mow areas for my yard and have been pouring over those, so that accounts for some of my reading time. The books gave me a few more ideas and I should be ready to start digging soon. I’ll probably listen to a lot more audiobooks once I get going on this project.

Finished Listening/Reading Last Week:

The Art of Fielding was fantastic and was so much more than a baseball story. The audio was a pleasure to listen to.

I enjoyed Whole Latte Life and probably liked Sara Beth a little more than most of the reviewers I’ve read. My review will be posted May 21st.
 

Reading/Listening This Week:

I’ll be reading a little of The Secret Garden each week this month for the read-a-long hosted by Book Journey. Year of the Gadfly is for an upcoming tour and All I Did Was Shoot My Man is an unsolicited audio that, so far, is pretty good.

What Are You Reading?

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