It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - Feb 6

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 first Monday of February. Hope you had a great week. Lots going on here with work and family life. Spent a day and a half in various forms of training. Worked on getting organized and planning for my mother-in-law to relocate here. Tried not to freeze body parts off. Lost trees in the woods, but mostly only branches to pick up other than that. It was way worse in other places and some lost power for longer than we did.

Sunday, our trail was sunny and much warmer on our morning walk.

Over the weekend, one of our local groups held a danceathon to support three western Mass charities. Rick's Place  in Wilbraham was one of the recipients. This organization, whose board I am blessed to sit on, offers free grief support to children and their families. 

In my reading world, I finished this audio book. You can find my review here.

I am also 26% through this wonderful latest installment of Charlotte Hubbard's latest Promise Lodge novel. Since adding the Netgalley app to my phone, I tend to use it more and aren't as shy about requesting new titles. 

These two are next. 

Upcoming virtual book tours:

• Dead Heat to Destiny by J. B. Rivard - Feb 7
• Family Gatherings at Promise Lodge by Charlotte Hubbard - Feb 20
• Kiss My Boots by Jennifer Learmont - Feb 23
• The Code by Sean Keefer - Mar 6
• Path of Peril by Marlie Parker Wasserman - Mar 13

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.

These two arrived on Friday. They are the last of the books I ordered with my B&N gift card. I so rarely read anything lighthearted that I felt it is time to make it happen.

I also grabbed a few books from an estate sale. I enjoy David McCullough. It is also good to have books I can use for research purposes here since I tend to write historical fiction. 

I also grabbed a Kindle freebie on Sunday that I simply couldn't resist.

Abigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families. Starting her new life, Abigail moves to small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. Once it was also home to Edna’s younger sister, Emily, and her two children, Jenny and Christopher, who, people believe, drove away one night, thirty years ago, and just never came back.

But in renovating the house Abigail finds scraps of paper hidden behind baseboards and tucked beneath the porch that hint the three could have been victims of foul play. Then she finds their graves hidden in the woods behind the house and with the help of eccentric townspeople and ex-homicide detective, Frank Lester, she discovers the three were murdered. Then she and Frank try to uncover who killed them and why…but in the process awaken the ire of the murderer.

Doesn't Scraps of Paper sound fabulous? 

I am off to stage a property this morning, but I will check in with everyone later today. Hope it is a good one!