It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - May 30

 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.  

Welcome to the last Monday of May. Today is Memorial Day in America, a time to remember all those who have died in service to the United States. I hope you'll join me in sharing a moment of silence. 

On Saturday, the Lil' Princess graduated from high school. I am so proud of her for all her accomplishments and excited as she prepares to leave for North Carolina in August to start at UNC Wilmington. 

Laying of the stones 

Our three kids

About 30 seconds before the rain started

Most of the dance team

I still need to write the review for this book. It is coming, I promise. Book is fabulous, but read the first book before this one.

Posted a review of this book at my children's book blog on Wednesday.

A First Chapter Review appeared here on Thursday. Hope to read the rest of the book soon.

I am reading these books now.

These are next:

Review coming June 7 at TC&TBC

Review coming June 22 at TC&TBC

Maybe by the time vacation rolls around I will get to these:

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.

This is the one book Amazon delivered this past week. I already started it, but need to stay on top of books for review first.

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing.

When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But “rustic” is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable.

When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.

That's it from me. Hope you share some great books you've come across recently.