WEEKLY UPDATES: BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAYS….

 

Good morning! Today’s post will link up to The Sunday Salon, The Sunday Post and Stacking the Shelves, for weekly updates.

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

And let’s join Kathryn, our leader in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?, at Book Date.

Great, sunshiny days came along this week, and so far it isn’t hot, either.  This perfect balance won’t last that long.  In the meantime, I am luxuriating in this little spring bubble.

My reading took a spike upwards this week, with FOUR books read and reviewed.  My blogging fell off, however, with only FIVE posts.  I guess when one thing goes up, the other goes down.  My total Read the Books You Buy Count so far:  32.

I spent some time watching Netflix(13 Reasons Why) and Amazon Prime(Bridget Jones’s Baby & La La Land); enjoyed some movies on my DVR; and played around with my blog headers (and then changed them again!).  I suffer from Restless/Compulsive Blog Designing/Changing Syndrome.

I did get a mani/pedi this week, to honor spring and sandals.

I was on Facebook earlier this week, and they had posted some “memories” to share.  I found this one from a few years back…the neighborhood library had featured one of my novels (click to my Amazon page).

 

My patio is buried under mounds of leaves that the gardeners regularly propel in with their leaf blowers…what is the sense of that?  I used to sweep them out regularly, but it was hopeless when the rains were turning them into a soggy mess.  But now that it’s spring, I need to prepare the patio for relaxing days ahead.

While I ponder that, I’ll have another cup of coffee…and talk about my week.

 

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LAST WEEK ON THE BLOGS:

Sunday Potpourri:  Reading, TV Shows, & Movies….

Tuesday Potpourri: “The Widow of Wall Street”

Hump Day Reading:  Immersed in Books….

Coffee & Thoughts….

Bookish Friday:  “Woman No. 17”

Review:  The Widow’s House (e-book), by Carol GoodmanReview:  The Secrets You Keep (e-book), by Kate WhiteReview:  The Arrangement (e-book), by Sarah DunnReview:  Woman No. 17, by Edan Lepucki – (Amazon Vine Review)

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INCOMING BOOKS: (Titles/Covers Linked to Amazon)

One Amazon Vine Review book came in my physical mailbox, and a NetGalley Review came to my Kindle.  Additionally, I purchased two more downloads…because I couldn’t resist!

What’s Become of Her, by Deb Caletti (Vine).

 

 

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Downloads:

He Said/She Said (e-book), by Erin Kelly – (NetGalley – 6-6-17)

 

 

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Downloaded Purchases:

Any Day Now (e-book), by Robyn Carr

 

 

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Fallout (e-book, VI Warshawski), by Sara Paretsky

 

 

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WHAT’S NEXT?

Currently Reading:  The Housekeeper (e-book), by Suellen Dainty

 

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And then….

The Roanoke Girls (e-book), by Amy Engel

 

 

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Wait for the Rain (e-book), by Maria Murnane

 

 

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That was my week.  What did yours look like?  Today I feel like going to Barnes & Noble (below) to browse for books…and have some of their coffee.  I have some coupons!

 

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WEEKLY UPDATES: A PEEK INTO MY WORLD….

 

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 mimosa!), and let’s talk about our weeks.

 

 

What a week I had!  I had a nice brunch with my daughter and grandson, to launch it properly.  And then I settled down to read, read, read.

ON THE BLOGS:

Blue Mondays:  Favorite Genre

Serendipitous Tuesdays:  Intros/Teasers – “What You Left Behind”

Chasing Away the Blues with “WWW Wednesdays”

My Bookish (and Not So Bookish) Thoughts:  Thrillers, Killers, & Bloggiesta

Serendipitous Friday:  Book Beginnings/Friday 56 – “The Denim Blue Sea”

Guilty Pleasures:  Spring Has Sprung

Shroud of Silence:  A Short Story by Laurel-Rain Snow

Bookish Saturday:  Adding to My Shelves!

In Search of Alternate Suspects:  An Excerpt from “Interior Designs”

Review:  Crazy Love You (e-book), by Lisa Unger

Review:  Amherst, by William Nicholson

Review:  Fear Nothing (e-book), by Lisa Gardner

Review:  Baltimore Blues (e-book), by Laura Lippman

 

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INCOMING BOOKS: (Titles/Covers Linked to Amazon)

ONE book came in the mailbox from Amazon Vine; and I downloaded THREE e-books.

 

Where They Found Her, by Kimberly McCreight

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Downloads:

 

My Sunshine Away (e-book), by M. O. Walsh

 

 

 

 

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The Daughter (e-book), by Jane Shemilt

 

 

 

 

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Golden State (e-book), by Stephanie Kegan

 

 

 

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

 

Currently Reading:  My Dearest Friend (e-book), by Nancy Thayer

 

 

 

 

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What You Left Behind, by Samantha Hayes (Vine Review)

 

 

 

 

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Under a Silent Moon (e-book), by Elizabeth Haynes

 

 

 

 

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And maybe…..

Hush Hush (e-book), by Laura Lippman

 

 

 

 

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So that was what my week looked like…and what lies ahead.  What about yours?

Here are some signs of Spring on my street….

 

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WEEKLY UPDATES: IT LOOKS A LOT LIKE SPRING!

 

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.  I had a slower reading week, but savored each book.  And Saturday was a wonderful day of lunch and a movie.  I saw and loved Still Alice, with Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin, and when I left the theater, my eyes were filled with tears.

 

 

 

Have any of you seen it?  Did you read the book?  I read Still Alice last May (click for my review).

I will be thinking about the gripping performances for a long time.  Meanwhile, here’s what last week looked like for me.

LAST WEEK ON THE BLOGS:

Blue Mondays Musings:  Reading & Dreaming

Tuesday Potpourri:  Intros/Teasers – “One Plus One”

From the Interior:  Books, Blogs, & Devices

Going out on a Limb with “Pretty Baby”

My Bookish (and Not So Bookish) Thoughts) – Reconnecting

Serendipitous Fridays:  Book Beginnings/Friday 56 – “Wife-in-Law”

A Woman’s Fears:  Excerpt from “Interior Designs”

Saturday Sparks: Birthday Girls

Bookish Saturday:  My Bookish Changes

Review:  The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (e-book), by Diane Chamberlain

Review:  One Plus One (e-book), by JoJo Moyes

Review:  Nell (e-book), by Nancy Thayer

 

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INCOMING BOOKS (Titles/Covers Linked to Amazon)

Three books came in my mailbox from Amazon Vine!  And I downloaded two books for Sparky….

You Can Trust Me, by Sophie McKenzie

 

 

 

On a quiet, gray, Saturday morning, Livy arrives at her best friend Julia’s flat for a lunch date only to find her dead. Though all the evidence supports it, Livy cannot accept the official ruling of suicide; the Julia she remembers was loud, inappropriate, joyful, outrageous and loving, not depressed. The suspicious circumstances cause Livy to dig further, and she is suddenly forced to confront a horrifying possibility: that Julia was murdered, by the same man who killed Livy’s sister, Kara, eighteen years ago….

 

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The Day We Met, by Rowan Coleman

 

 

 

A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children, a job she loves—Claire’s got it all. And then some. But lately, her mother hovers more than a helicopter, her husband, Greg, seems like a stranger, and her kids are like characters in a movie. Three-year-old Esther’s growing up in the blink of an eye, and twenty-year-old Caitlin, with her jet-black hair and clothes to match, looks like she’s about to join a punk band—and seems to be hiding something. Most concerning, however, is the fact that Claire is losing her memory, including that of the day she met Greg….

 

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Second Life, by S. J. Watson

 

 

 

Julia’s life is comfortable, if unremarkable, until her sister’s brutal murder opens old wounds. She finds solace in her sister’s best friend, Sophie, but when Sophie reveals the extent of her sister’s online life, Julia becomes convinced that the truth about her death lies deep in the dark, sordid world of online chatrooms and internet sex….

 

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DOWNLOADS:

Crazy Love You (e-book), by Lisa Unger

 

 

 

Love hurts. Sometimes it even kills.

Darkness has a way of creeping up when Ian is with Priss. Even when they were kids, playing in the woods of their small Upstate New York town, he could feel it. Still, Priss was his best friend, his salvation from the bullies who called him “loser” and “fatboy”…and from his family’s deadly secrets.

Now that they’ve both escaped to New York City, Ian no longer inhabits the tortured shell of his childhood. He is a talented and successful graphic novelist, and Priss…Priss is still trouble. The booze, the drugs, the sex–Ian is growing tired of late nights together trying to keep the past at bay. Especially now that he’s met sweet, beautiful Megan, whose love makes him want to change for the better. But Priss doesn’t like change. Change makes her angry. And when Priss is angry, terrible things begin to happen…

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The First Wife (e-book), by Erica Spindler

 

 

 

As a child, Bailey Browne dreamed of a knight in shining armor swooping in to rescue her and her mother. As she grows older, those dreams transform, becoming ones of a mysterious stranger who will sweep her off her feet and whisk her away from her ordinary existence. Then, suddenly, there he is. Despite the ten year difference in their ages, her working class upbringing and his of privilege, Logan Abbott and Bailey fall deeply in love. Marriage quickly follows.

But when Logan brings her home to his horse farm in Louisiana, a magnificent estate on ninety wooded acres, her dreams of happily-ever-after begin to unravel. A tragic family history she knew nothing about surfaces, plus whisperings about the disappearance of his first wife, True, and rumors about the women from the area who have gone missing—and when another woman disappears, all signs point to her husband’s involvement.

 

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

 

Currently Reading:  Three Days to Forever, by Lauren Carr

 

 

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You Can Trust Me, by Sophie McKenzie

 

 

 

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After the Party (e-book), by Lisa Jewell

 

 

 

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And that was my week…and what the new week might look like.  Enjoy yours!

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