It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, check it out and join in the fun! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!
Happy Monday everyone! It’s been a busy week here on my blog, mostly because I’m still churning out daily posts for the 30 Day Book Challenge. I’m having a good time answering the questions. You can check out my answers from this week here:
Day #6: A Book That Makes You Cry
Day #7: A Book That’s Hard to Read
Day #8: A Unpopular Book I Believe Should be a Best-seller
Day #9: A Book I’ve Read More Than Once
Day #10: The First Novel I Remember Reading
Day #11: The Book That Made me Fall in Love with Reading
Day #12: A book so emotionally draining you couldn’t complete it or had to set aside for a bit
I linked up to a new Friday meme called Let’s Talk hosted by Smash Attack Reads and A Book Obsession. (You should totally join in!) My post can be found here.
On to the books!
Read and Reviewed:
Charlotte & Emily: A Novel of the Brontës by Jude Morgan (I looooved this)
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (short and sweet)
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick and The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (very quick thoughts on both of these important works)
I also read (but haven’t reviewed):
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony
and
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy L. O’Brien (I’ll be taking part in a tour of this book in mid-November, watch for that!)
Currently Reading:
I just cracked open The Art Forger this morning. I’ve been looking forward to this one!
Upcoming Reads:
Remember how I said I was going to ban myself from requesting books from the library until I got my stacks under control? I succeeded, no requests! It’s been painful, I won’t lie. Here are a few of the books that I have at home that I’m hoping to read this week:
The Relentless Reader 
I'm a Bronte fanatic, and I've been wanting to read Charlotte and Emily–glad to know you loved it so much! Right now I'm starting The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton, and so far I like it very much….
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Thanks Charlie, last week was a good one for reading and this week promises to be the same!
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It's been difficult, but I'm doing it! You should see the giant list I have going for when my ban is over, lol.
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Thanks Kristin! I'm pretty darn pleased if I do say so myself 😉
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Ouch, the choosing is always hard isn't it? Good luck!!
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I'm going to find and devour as many Jude Morgan books as I can..very soon 😉
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I have a feeling that it's going to be a teary read. I'm always drawn to those sorts of books though. I don't know why!
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It was a great read Dorothee, kept me glued to the pages!
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I'm kinda waiting for one of the librarians to call me! Where are you Jen? Are you ok??? LOL!
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I hope you enjoy it Kristin, I really did! Lots of good characters 🙂
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Ha ha! You aren't old, you're experienced! Seasoned! 🙂
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I LOVED it Shonda! Move it to the top of your tbr pile! 🙂
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I don't know! LOL 😉 I hope you get to it, you'll love it!
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I forgot to do my daily post yesterday, whooooops! I'll be making a double post today at some point 😉 The Rape of Nanking was definitely disturbing. There's no getting around that. 😦 Very powerful though.
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I liked The Middlesteins but The Art Forger knocked my socks off 😉 Great book!
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I'm in the middle of That's How You Lose Her and I think Illuminations is next. I'm pretty excited about reading it, I've really been looking forward to it!Thanks Lindsey, I'm proud too!
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The 30 Day book challenge has kept me a very busy blogger, whew! It's hard to get to every book that you want to isn't it? That's something that makes me sad at times! How can I read ALL THE BOOKS??
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I hope you'll read Charlotte and Emily, if you love the Brontes then I'm pretty sure you'll love that book :)I've been hoping to get to that latest Morton..one of these days!!
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OMG how do you read so much!!!??!!! Wow.
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I'm LUCKY! I read fast and I read often, that's my trick 😉 lol
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So interesting reading through all your 30 day book challenge answers! the End of Your Life Bookclub sounds intriguing! 🙂
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I defintely want to try the The 30-day challenge- it sounds like a lot of fun! I love the sound of the Bronte book- I find them so interesting as a family 🙂 Hope you had a great week
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