It's Monday! What Are You Reading? & Mailbox Monday - Nov 9

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and are 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 back to Monday. How are you doing? I haven't caught up on responding to last week's posts yet. So sorry! I spent the last three days staging a home to get it ready to list. I also listed a home this week and will list one or two next week depending on how things go. Life is never dull around here. 

Last week, I posted more than usual on this blog. Below are links to the posts other than memes that I participated in:

• Interview with Gabriel Tate, author of Meeks. You can find it here.
• Interview with Sue A. Stewart, author of Yuletide Murder at Sea. Find it here.
• Interview with Tony Setley, author of The Relative Unimportance of It All. You can read it here.
• Special Guest Post from Hank Quense titled, "Real Problems, Real Solutions." Check it out here.

Have you decided on your books for the Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon? Look for my post later this month.

I am a third of the way into Harboring the Enemy: The Civil War Heroine History Forgot by R. C. Duffy. I have five more days to finish it. The book isn't overly long. I've just been busy. 

I finished The TV MBA: Business Lessons from Popular Culture by Rhymer Rigby. Loved the content, but struggled with how fast the author/narrator read. 

I am almost done with Starry-Eyed Christmas by Sheila Roberts. This is for a December review.

 

Posted my First Chapter Review of Shifta by Miles Joyner last Monday. You can read that here.

The Eyes of River by Cindy K. Sproles still didn't get any attention this week. I will likely bring it with me for the drive to see the Lil' Princess. 

I am looking forward to reading Soledad and the Curse of the Phoenix by Mindy Baker. 

I will be reading Just Enough Room for Christmas by Robin Currie soon. 

Since I finished one book that is due for review in December and am almost finished with the other, I feel like I might be able to sneak in more holiday reading this year. 

Upcoming Events

• Still Wild: Poems from the Bear Shack by Suzanne Sunshower - Dec 14 (Review)
• Starry-Eyed for Christmas by Sheila Roberts - Dec 16 (Review)
• Sugar Sand Land by Patricia Leavy - Dec 17 (Spotlight & Giveaway)

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books they added to their shelves the previous week. This weekly meme was last hosted by Vicki at I'd Rather Be At The Beach. It appears to be on hiatus, but I will keep sharing new books. 

Three used books arrived last week, all about Christmas.

4000 Years of Christmas: A Gift from the Ages by Earl W. Count & Alice Lawson Count

Christmas in America: A History by Penne L. Restad

The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum

Christmas Year Round

This week's Journey through Christmases Past looks back at Christmas in America by Penne L. Restad and Christmas carols. You can find that post here.

I had another author sign up for The Christmas Memory Collection. This will feature authors sharing memories, traditions, and other holiday stories. Check out the details here if you wish to participate. Space is limited. 

The Children's and Teens' Book Connection

I reviewed T is for Traffic Cone by Sarah Feingold. You can read it here.

Laura's Little Houses

Nothing new this week. Not sure if I will have the time to play at this blog in November, but I am going to do my best.

That's it from me. Hope you enjoyed your visit. Looking forward to reading your posts this week!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - Sept 15

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.

Happy Monday on a Sunday! I have a day of appointments on Monday, so I figured I would release this post early. Did you have a great week? Mine was good. Got into the kitchen on Sunday to make turkey soup. Reviewed some books. Here are a few photos:

Taco pizza

Turkey soup in the making 

Flowers add a nice touch to any room

This week, I will list a new property, have a closing for another property, have inspections at a property, and Theo will get his sutures taken out. Only three meetings this week, so hopefully my evenings will be mostly free. Also have a small editing project. 

In my reading world, my review of "Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea" by Richard Levine appears today.

Posted my review of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking by Stacey Brown Randall on Sunday. Loved this book! You can read that review here. 

I reviewed 364 Days Until Halloween by Allison Edwards at my children's book blog. You can read the review here. 

I didn't read Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley on my Kindle this week. 

Look for my First Chapter Review of Ride a Dark Trail by Winter Austin coming toward the end of September. 

Wrote the reviews for these books. They are coming this week. 

Little Angel's Christmas Song by Kerstin Hau. Love the artwork on this one. 

Never Let a Unicorn Meet A Reindeer by Diane Alber. This one is funny!

These are review books I need to read.

Singing the Forge by G. H. Mosson is a poetry collection. 

The Man Next Door is another romantic comedy by Sheila Roberts.

Zigzag Girl by Ruth Knafo Setton is a thriller. 

I also want to read Old Flames, New Beginnings by Lea Schizas during the holiday season. 

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. 

The first two books are freebies from authors whose newsletters I signed up for last month. 

Grabsenstein's book is a NetGalley download.

This poetry collection is for a November review. 

My review of Sheila Roberts' latest is coming on October 31. 

The last two I ordered because they were of interest to me. 

Upcoming Events

• Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard Levine - Sep 15 (Review)
• From Turmoil to Peace by Delia E. Hayward - Sep 18 (Guest Post)
• Ride a Dark Trail by Winter Austin - Sep 23 (First Chapter Review)
• The Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall by Jaime Jo Wright - Oct 29 (Review)
• The Man Next Door by Sheila Roberts - Oct 31 (Review)
• ZigZag Girl by Ruth Knafo Setton - Nov 12 (First Chapter Review)
• Singing the Forge by G. H. Mosson - Nov 25 (Review)

The latest Christmas... in the news post is up at Christmas Year Round. This week, I am talking about Amazon's Top 100 Best Christmas Decorations, a teen cancer and heart failure survivor who is starring in a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, and a Christmas tree farm convention. Check it out here.

At The Children's and Teens' Book Connection, I posted the review of 364 Days Until Halloween, and two more will be posted this week. 

Laura's Little Houses has two new posts: "Top Five Favorite Episodes from Little House on the Prairie - Season 1," and the latest chapter in the "Times Are Changing" Season 9 rewrite. You can find those here and here. 

And that wraps up this Monday's posts. Looking forward to your comments.