It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Book Journey.

I am currently reading Ghosthunting North Carolina by Kala Ambrose.

I read Spirits of New Orleans a while back and loved it!

It's Monday! What Are YOU Reading????

It's Monday- What Are You Reading?

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? -a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.

Today I am reading 3 books- a nonfiction, a memoir, and a fiction novel.

So far, they are all all great! I hope to have reviews up soon!

So...It's Monday- What are you reading?

It's Monday- What Are You Reading

I'ts Monday- What are you reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.  This is a great way to learn about new books and meet fellow bloggers!
This is a "slow" week for me. I'm reading one book-

I bought this book at a local book store- Paradise Lost- in Rome, GA. (If you're in the area, you really need to check this place out!)
As an avid fan of the paranormal (and Georgia girl), I had to try this one. So far...so good. Stay tuned for my review....

It's Monday- What Are You Reading?

It's Monday- What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey. This is a great way to find out about wonderful books you may not have known about! What a great way to add to your TBR list!

This week I am still reading:

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael

a novel for ages 9 & up

From Amazon:

Stubborn, self-reliant eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, is forced to move to the country to live with her strange and bad-tempered uncle. In this moving coming-of-age novel, an ALA Notable Children's Book and Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year, Zoe and her uncle learn about love, trust and the strength of family ties.

I am also reading:
The Cutting Season
by: Attica Locke

From Amazon:

Attica Locke’s breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won 

resounding acclaim from major publications coast-to-coast and from respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, earning this exciting new author comparisons to Dennis Lehane, Scott Turow, and Walter Mosley. Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K. The Cutting Season has been selected by bestselling author Dennis Lehane as the first pick for his new line of books at HarperCollins.

It's Monday- What Are You Reading?

It's Monday- What Are You Reading?

It's Monday- What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.  It's a great way to find out about wonderful books and add to your TBR List!

This week I am reading:

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael

a novel for ages 9 & up

From Amazon:

Stubborn, self-reliant eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, is forced to move to the country to live with her strange and bad-tempered uncle. In this moving coming-of-age novel, an ALA Notable Children's Book and Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year, Zoe and her uncle learn about love, trust and the strength of family ties.

 

And...

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

by: Amy Hill Hearth

 From Amazon:
Eighty-year-old Dora, the narrator of a story that began a half century earlier, is bonding with an unlikely set of friends, including Jackie Hart, a restless middle-aged wife and mother from Boston, who gets into all sorts of trouble when her family moves to a small, sleepy town in Collier County, Florida, circa 1962.




With humor and insight the novel chronicles the awkward North-South cultural divide as Jackie, this hapless but charming “Yankee,” looks for some excitement in her life by accepting an opportunity to host a local radio show where she creates a mysterious, late-night persona, “Miss Dreamsville,” and by launching a reading group—the Collier County Women’s Literary Society—thus sending the conservative and racially segregated town into uproar. The only townspeople who venture to join are regarded as outsiders at best—a young gay man, a divorced woman, a poet, and a young black woman who dreams of going to college.




This brilliant fiction debut by Amy Hill Hearth, a New York Times bestselling author, brings to life unforgettable characters who found the one thing that eluded them as individuals:a place in the world. Inspired by a real person, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society will touch the heart of anyone and everyone who has ever felt like an outsider longing to fit in.

So...
It's Monday- What are you reading???



It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? A weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.

This is a great way to add books to your Wish List and TBR pile. What a wonderful way to find out about all great books you never knew existed!


There is also a great prize for those who visit 10 or more participating blogs.

Guess who won last week's prize?
ME!!!!

I am currently reading:

On Folly Beach by Karen White.

From Amazon: To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it's a sanctuary for lost souls, which is why Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly's Finds, hoping it will distract Emmy from the loss of her husband.



Emmy is at first resistant. So much has already changed. But after finding love letters and an image of a beautiful bottle tree in a box of used books from Folly's Finds, she decides to take the plunge. But the seller insists on one condition: Emmy must allow Lulu, the late owner's difficult sister, to continue selling her bottle trees from its back yard.



For the most part Emmy ignores Lulu as she sifts through the love letters, wanting to learn more. But the more she discovers about the letters, the more she understands Lulu. As details of a possible murder and a mysterious disappearance during WWII are revealed, the two women discover that circumstances beyond their control, sixty years apart, have brought them together, here on Folly Beach. And it is here that their war-ravaged hearts can find hope for a second chance...


and

From Amazon:

Left with Aunt Mattie and Uncle (sheriff) Cade in the North Carolina mountains, nine-year-old June becomes “Mattie’s Girl” when Cade is killed at the home of her best friend PeeDee. In stories deeply rooted in 1940s Appalachia, June chronicles the years between meeting the irrepressible PeeDee and losing her. She struggles to understand her mother’s indifference, her father’s divided love, her grandmother’s sudden death, her grandfather’s being institutionalized. Three years later, PeeDee, riding the rails west, brings a final gift and the truth about Cade’s murder. In this world forever gone, June survives and triumphs through the grace of family and friendship.




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It's Monday! So...What are your reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by Book Journey.
This is a great way to add books to your Wish List and TBR pile. What a wonderful way to find out about all great books you never knew existed!
(Oh how I LOVE book blogs!!)
Book Journey also sponsors a great prize drawing for those that visit 10 or more blogs in the Meme.
SO...

I am currently reading

The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by: Jacqueline Guidry

 From Publisher's Weekly on Amazon:

 

The racial divisions of the 1950s South as seen through the eyes of a young girl achieved quintessential expression in To Kill a Mockingbird. Guidry, then, is courageous in exploring the same situation. In her first novel, she eloquently captures the reality of black and white relations in Louisiana before the civil rights movement. Her characterizations and insights into family life are strong and believable, and her young female narrator's voice is convincing. Narrator Vivien Leigh Dubois, like Harper Lee's Scout Finch, is coming of age in a changing world. A 10-year-old about to go into fifth grade, Vivien Leigh knows that there are differences between whites and "coloreds," unlike her younger sister Mavis, whose best friend Marydale Arceneaux is the daughter of the Dubois family's black housekeeper. When two "colored" nuns (the "sisters" of the title) arrive in Ville d'Angelle to teach at Holy Rosary, the all-white, private Catholic school that Vivien Leigh attends, she slowly begins to see these divisions in a different light. Guidry's characterization is nuanced; not everyone is portrayed as a hate-mongering racist, and she makes it clear that it required bravery to speak out against bigotry. Yet whereas Lee's classic pulled readers into its plot, Guidry allows her story to meander. Only in the last hundred pages does the story propel the reader toward a conclusion where there are no easy heroes, no easy compromises or truths. Though uneven, the novel is written in fluid, assured prose and gracefully drives home its message: that life is not black and white, but rather painted in shades of all colors. 

 

And....

One Crazy Summer by: Rita Williams Garcia

 

From Amazon:

Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. It's an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.

 

 

What are you reading?