The Book Connection...: It's Monday! What Are You Reading? & 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, comment, and add to that ever-growing TBR pile! So welcome, everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and was then taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.

Welcome to the middle of January. See how quickly that happened? Hope you had a great week. My schedule last week and this coming week is full, but I managed to take two half days off this weekend, and today I only have one appointment.

Our Christmas decorations are officially packed away for the season... much to the dismay of Travis. I guess he will need to find something else to play with instead of ornaments.

Snow arrived overnight on Friday and continued through part of Saturday. We had another coating or so on Sunday morning.

I've taken to enjoying auctions over the last few months. I snagged this clipper ship table that is in the room where my office will eventually be.

After Christmas, Modern Prairie ran its annual mystery sale. You purchase from select categories at discounted prices. Well, my mystery gifts arrived yesterday: a sewing kit and cloth napkins.

As far as reading goes, I've been loving the Christian short story collection, Chapters and Second Chances by Evelyn Grace Berry.

I did not read I Heard the Bells, but I want to finish it this month.

I read some of Hooked by Cailtin Rother last week. I need to finish this one soon.

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books they added to their shelves the previous week. This weekly meme is now hosted by Vicki at I'd Rather Be At The Beach.

Two of these new books, Arthur's Cat by Johan Leynaud and The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne: Discovering the Stuff of Stars by Laura Alary, arrived on Sunday from Eerdmans Publishing.