It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - Nov 13

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday.   

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 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 the Book Date.     

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you enjoyed your week. We had fun visiting the Lil' Princess. Weather was mid-70s, which made walking the beach nice. Had some great food, too!

Wrightsville Beach

Baked potatoes from McAllister's

Tree going up in downtown Wilmington

Lil' Princess opening her gifts

We returned home on Tuesday afternoon. It was much cooler. By Thursday it was damp, rainy, and cold enough that I could see my breath in the morning. We still have some nice colors, though. And proving that the holidays are coming, our gift tree is up at the real estate board office. 

Woods behind our house

Goofy me grabbing some gift tags

My NaNoWriMo project is moving along. I've already written through the twelve scenes I had created, so now I am creating new scenes while I am writing. Luckily, I'm a little bit ahead of where I need to be. My hope is to hit 25,000 words by tomorrow or Tuesday. 

Here is what is going on in my reading world. Since I finished Sheila Roberts' book early (look for my review here on November 21), I started Jill Kemerer's latest cowboy romance. 

This review will go live on November 20.

Didn't read either of these this week and might not finish the first one. It's good, but not fabulous. I think if I had it in paperback, I would get more out of it. 

I started this one over the weekend.

Upcoming virtual book tours:

• Resparking Creativity by Fatemah Mirza & Sumayyah Rafiq - November 20 (review)
• The 12 Months of Christmas by Sheila Roberts - November 21 (review)
• The King Who Lost His Colors by Glen Liset - November 27 (review at TC&TBC)
• Scrapper's Christmas Story by Maria J. Andrade - December 4 (review at TC&TBC)
• The Location Shoot by Patricia Leavy - January 31 (interview)  

At Christmas Year Round last week:

• Giveaway winners announced for Read and Rhyme The First Christmas
• Christmas Errors, Flubs & Fails: Mrs. Brown's Christmas Tree Disasters (2011-2016)
• Christmas Women's Fiction Review: The Twelve Months of Christmas by Sheila Roberts

I will be running a giveaway of my books there soon. 

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

Amazon offered a great deal on the annual Audible subscription for the first year, so I grabbed it. The offer came with credits, so I picked up these books to start 2024 off right.

I own Start With Why in hardcover, but I find non-fiction is best for me on Audible these days. I simply read more of it in audiobook format than any other. 

That is it from my neck of the woods. Please say a prayer for the Lil' Princess. She has a rigorous schedule this week with tests and then her nursing exam on Saturday before she flies home for Thanksgiving. I look forward to reading your blog posts today.