It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2-20-17 #IMWAYR

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It’s a beautiful, sunny day here in Massachusetts. It’s also Presidents’ Day, which is a holiday for me, so I’m looking forward to spending the day at home except for morning yoga class (my new exercise obsession) and a quick run to the supermarket this afternoon.

cover imageI’m currently reading Crosstalk by Connie Willis, and This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (which I started when I couldn’t find my copy of Crosstalk.)

cover imageThey are favorite authors of mine, and I own both of these books. So I can read without worrying about the books expiring, which happened with the downloaded library audiobook I was listening to last week (The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close.)

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While I wait to come to the top of the list to get The Hopefuls again to listen to the second half of it, two more audiobook holds came through from the library, including The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly, which I’ve been waiting a long time for and hope to get to listen to before it expires!

I audiobook cover imagestarted The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson, narrated by Cassandra Campbell first, to see what it was like; I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about this debut novel set in a private high school in an upscale suburb of San Francisco.

At first I thought I might not listen to it all the way through because the school bullying described in detail from an eighth-grade girl’s perspective, at the start of the book, made me so sad and angry. When the perspective switched to a new high school teacher’s three years later, I decided I’d give it a few more chapters to see if I could stomach the subject matter. By the time the perspective switched back to a student’s again –about a third of the way in – I was hooked.

Game of Thrones character "Brace Yourself, the President memes are coming.

Happy Presidents’ Day! What are you reading this week?


It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week.  It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! So welcome in, everyone. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.

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Kathryn
7 years ago

Enjoy your long weekend, always precious. I dislike when a book expires so its why I either don’t borrow or when I do make a plan to read/listen to within the time, which of course is not always possible.

Silver's Reviews
7 years ago

I LOVE my Yoga class. It is addicting. 🙂

The Hopefuls looks good.

ENJOY your week!!

Elizabeth
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Kate Scott
7 years ago

This Is How It Always Is is on my TBR list. I’ve heard it’s great!

Drangonfly
7 years ago

I live in New England too 🙂 and that’s what I did Monday YOGA!!! 🙂 LOVE YOGA SO MUCH. “This is How It Always is” sounds very sweet. I’ll check it out 🙂

Stefanie
7 years ago

How’s CrossTalk going? I recently began passage and am really enjoying it.

Stefanie
7 years ago
Reply to  Laurie C

I am predisposed to like Willis, but I am glad Cross Talk turned out to be good!

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