WEEKLY UPDATES: HELLO, FEBRUARY!

Good morning!  Today’s post will link up to Sunday Salon, The Sunday Post,  and Book Journey, for  Weekly Updates.

**Mailbox Monday is now hosted at the home site:  Mailbox Monday.

Grab some coffee (or a pot of tea!), and let’s talk about our weeks.  My reading went pretty well, and I even did a little more organizing and purging. Yes, again!  Check it out.

 

 

 

LAST WEEK ON THE BLOGS:

A Time of Healing:  An Excerpt from “Interior Designs”

“Sense Memory”:  A Short Story by Laurel-Rain Snow

A Blue Mondays Chat:  Let’s Chase Those Blues Away!

From the Interior:  Intros/Teasers – “The Wednesday Group”

My Bookish (and Not So Bookish) Thoughts:  Luxuriating!

Friday Potpourri:  Book Beginnings/Friday 56 – “Jubilee’s Journey”

Serendipitous Saturdays:  Clearing & Changing

Monthly Wrap-Up:  January Is Gone…

Review:  Catch Me, by Lisa Gardner

Review:  All Day and a Night, by Alafair Burke

Review:  After Birth, by Elisa Albert

Review:  The Escape Artist (e-book), by Diane Chamberlain

 

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INCOMING BOOKS: (Titles/Covers Linked to Amazon)

There were NO BOOKS IN THE MAILBOX this week…but I downloaded three e-books.

A Fatal Grace (e-book, Book Two), by Louise Penny

 

 

 

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.
No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death.
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Quebec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with someone quite extraordinary. CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake, in front of the entire village, as she watched the annual curling tournament. And yet no one saw anything. Who could have been insane enough to try such a macabre method of murder—or brilliant enough to succeed?
With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal too much of themselves. But other dangers are becoming clear to Gamache. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is coming for Gamache himself.

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Lost & Found (e-book), by Brooke Davis

 

 

 

An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is looking

Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the big ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never returns.

Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house—or spoken to another human being—since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.

Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam.

Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.

 

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I Was Here (e-book), by Gayle Forman

 

 

 

Cody and Meg were inseparable…
Until they weren’t.

When her best friend, Meg, drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.

 

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WHAT’S UP NEXT? (Titles/Covers Linked to Amazon)

Currently Reading:  Fangirl (e-book), by Rainbow Rowell

 

 

 

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Victims, by Jonathan Kellerman

 

 

 

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The Wednesday Group, by Sylvia True (Amazon Vine Review)

 

 

 

 

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Copper Beach, by Jayne Ann Krentz

 

 

 

 

 

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That was my week…and what I am looking forward to in the new week (and the new month).  What did your week look like?

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There is one more day before the Blue Mondays Giveaway ends…check it out!

 

 

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