Reviews:
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Translator by Nina Schuyler
Kindred & The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (For The Estella Project)
Kindred & The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (For The Estella Project)
Currently Reading:
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| Please ignore the shoddy quality of this photo. |
I normally don’t share braggy LOOK AT MY BOOKS pictures. I can’t help myself this week because I’ve received some books that I’m crazy looking forward to!
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
The Measures Between Us by Ethan Hauser
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (I actually whooped for joy when I opened this one!)
Bookish/Bloggish Business:
I’ve been a busy bee this week. I haven’t had as much reading time as usual. It’s okay though, I’m busy with good stuff! Haircut, pedicure, Big Brother 15, and a visit with my mom and sister.
Damn you Big Brother. I swore I was done with you when you started casting 20 year old hard bodies exclusively. Bah. I blame my youngest daughter. “Just watch the first episode with me Mom!” Uh huh.
You’ve probably heard about the extremely racist comments that some of the house-guests on BB15 have been making. It’s incredibly upsetting. That’s all I can say about it for now because it makes my stomach hurt and my hands shake.
I woke up to hear about the Zimmerman verdict and about the death of Cory Monteith. I have no words.
The Relentless Reader 
I think the \”look at my books\” pictures are a lot of fun. Since you are so excited by Five Days At Memorial, I will be checking that one out! I hope you had a great time visiting with your mom and sister. We celebrated my baby sister's 17th birthday yesterday and it was so nice to be with the whole family. 🙂
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Reality shows, they're like marmite! I do easily get sucked in to them though. I'm interested to know your thoughts on Tampa when you get round to reading that one, it certainly seems interesting. Enjoy your reads for this week!My Book Bubble
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I have The Silent Wife in my pile too! I don't watch Big Brother, my sister is forever trying to convince me to watch it, but I just don't have that much time to devote to one show! All my other shows would suffer! She made me watch one episode when I was at her house and had no choice. I still don't understand it 😉
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I might have to start posting those sorts of pics then! 😀 I did! Hooray for family time 🙂 Happy bday to your baby sis!
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I'm excited to read Tampa, if only to see what the controversy is all about. It has some naughty buzz going, that's for sure.
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I have Owen Meany somewhere, guess I have to dig it up to read it!
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I swear I replied to this. Hmm. It will show up sooner or later and then there will be two replies and my OCD senses will start firing all over the place! ;)ANYWHO! Don't you start watching BB. It's a soul sucking experience, lol.
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You really, really should Ciska! It's fantastic 🙂
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I don't have a blog, but I've considered doing the Estella Project challenge. Enjoy your books this week. I finished What the Spell? by Brittany Geragotelis (4/5 stars) last week. This week I'm reading Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, Fields of Elysium by A.B. Whelan, and OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu.
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Zimmerman. . . ugh, that disgusts me. Absolutely disgusting. I can't even book talk, I'm so disgusted by it.
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You still should Rose, there's a lot of time! 😀
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I absolutely understand. Yuck 😦
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I'm glad most of your busy week was fun. And what lovely new books you got! As for the news of the week… I'm disappointed by the Zimmerman outcome, but not surprised — and that itself saddens me.
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Thanks Lark 😀 It was a good week.I know just what you mean by that. I \”knew\” what the outcome would be. How sad is that? 😦
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Hope you get to those books this week! 🙂
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Me too! So many books…you know the rest 😉
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It looks like a great stack of books! I haven't had nearly as much time for reading this summer either. Not only am I trying to take advantage of the sunshine with my kiddos, but my work has intensified in recent weeks.
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Thanks 🙂 I was able to plow through a couple of them. The heat gave me a lot of time to read because I cannot TOLERATE BEING OUTSIDE in that garbage 😉
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