Monday's Beginnings (30)

Well, here we are again... MONDAY!

How are you faring in reading your books?  Are you starting a new book for the week or finishing one up?

I am just about done with The Emerald Storm by Michael J. Sullivan.  I am hoping to get a review up with in the next few days.  I am really enjoying this one and having a hard time stopping.  I have not made it very far in Strange Brew, the anthology I've been trying to read.  Which is okay.  I just didn't get much time in traveling last week to get to it, and all week I ate lunch out.  This week I think I will have more lunches in and time to read some of it.

I got a good bit of reading done today.  I stayed home from work today as our dog wasn't doing well.  And she had passed on this morning.  So there was a few things to be done, and then I was able to sit down and relax with a book.  So I should be able to get through The Emerald Storm this evening.  Then I am looking forward to starting Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie.  I read the first book with a reading buddy and we discussed it in sections, which is what we plan on doing with this one too.

For my Wishing List... I have added four books.  Three of these books are new releases coming out soon.  I am really starting to think I will never be able to catch up on these wanted books.

I have received two new books this week.  They are:

I was lucky enough to win this book on Twitter from Orbit Books.  This is my fantasy book I am looking forward to reading.

SHALE is the lowest of the low - an outcast from a poor village in the heart of the desert.  In the desert, water is life and currency, and Shale has none.  But he has a secret.  It's the one thing that keeps him alive and may save all the cities of the Quartern in the days to come.  If it doesn't get him killed first...

TERELLE is a slave fleeing a life as a courtesan.  She finds shelter in the home of an elderly painter, but as she learns the strange and powerful secrets of his art she fears she may have traded a life of servitude for something far more perilous...

THE STORMLORD is dying in his tower and there is no one, by accident or design, to take his place.  He brings the rain from the distant seas to his people.  Without a Stormlord, the cities of the Quartern will wither and die.

Their civilization is a the brink of disaster.  If Shale and Terelle can find a way to save themselves, they may just save them all.  Water is life and the wells are running dry...

I broke down and purchased a book too, Spider's Bite.

My name is Gin, and I kill people.

They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South-when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.

Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I'm out for revenge.  And I'll exterminate anyone who gets in my way-good or bad. I may look hot, but I'm still one of the bad guys. Which is why I'm in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I'm battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction... especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.

The 250 word blip I was writing for over at Deadline Dames is posted.  If you would like to read it, and you don't have too, you can visit the site by clicking here and I am number 11 in the comments.  I hope you enjoy if you stop over, if not okay and thanks for reading. :)

How are you faring this week so far?  Here is to hoping you have a great week in words and pages.