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 July host is Jennifer D @ 5 Minutes for Books.
 

From Goodreads for review:

1222 (Hanne Wilhelmsen #8)
by Anne Holt

1222 meters above sea level: train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. With night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and find shelter in a centuries-old mountain hotel. Before dawn breaks, one of them will be murdered. Trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne Wilhelmsen’s unease is mounting. Why was the last train carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?
 
Two audiobooks from Penguin for review:

The Absent One
by Jussi Adler-Olsen

A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier, and one of the suspects—part of a group of privileged boarding-school students—confessed and was convicted. But once Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Looking into the supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has mastered evading the police, but now they aren’t the only ones looking for her. Because Kimmie has secrets that certain influential individuals would kill to keep buried . . . as well as one of her own that could turn everything on its head.
 
One Last Thing Before I Go
by Jonathan Tropper

Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy Silver can’t quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because he’s the one she cares least about letting down. With the wedding looming and Casey in crisis, this broken family struggles, bonds, and comes together only to risk damaging each other even more. Lives begin anew, change radically, or in Silver’s case—as he discovers that he could die at any moment without an operation he refuses to have—may be about to end in an instant.

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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 haven’t been reading as much as usual the past week. Yesterday I spent the day at an old fashioned picnic at a forest preserve, happily unplugged from the internet and the phone. A few people were tapping away on their smartphones but I was enjoying the outdoors and the nice day.

The oppressive heat and humidity we have had most of this summer has been limiting my time in the garden and sitting out on my deck reading. Even my morning walk, which is normally a daily routine, has been cut down to a few days a week. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m ready for some cool autumn breezes.

Reading/Listening Last Week:

Last week I reviewed Shine Shine Shine, a wonderful and unique story. I finished listening to Mad Women, a memoir about what it was like for women in the advertising industry in the 1960s.

Later this week I’ll have a review and giveaway for The Violinist’s Thumb, a fascinating look at genetics and DNA written in an interesting and easy to follow narrative.

I’ll be starting the new Nicci French novel, Tuesday’s Gone, this week and I’m currently listening to City of Women, historical fiction set in Berlin during the second World War.

What Are You Reading?

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