Monday's Beginnings (52)

So, here we are again... another Monday.

How are you faring in reading at the beginning of this week?  Are you starting an new book or finishing one up?

Well, another crazy weekend.  So not as much reading as I had hoped.  We went to the amusement park Saturday, and spent all day there.  We didn't do anything for vacation so this trip to the park was our family time, before school starts.  I did get a little bit of reading done at lunch time today.  But I feel behind in my reading schedule.  I am hoping things will start to come into a normal pattern here again and I will feel better about reading with all the running we are doing.

I did spend the night Friday reading.  I wasn't going to bed until I finished As Lies the Dead by Kelly Meding, and that is exactly what I did.  And WELL worth it!  So As Lies the Dead is finished.  I will have the review up here in a day or two.  I am still reading Antiphon by Ken Scholes, but hoping to have this on finished tonight or tomorrow.

As for my Wishlist... I added 6 books.  And these all sound like great reads.  This list is one in which I try to keep only to the books I really want to and plan to read.  All these amazing authors should be proud and happy at all these amazing books I desperately want.

Robyn from The Bookoholic Zone and I had a poll up for the voting on the next read for Urban Fantasy Blog Book Club.  We are working on the post of the winner, so this should be up very soon.  I hope you check it out and join in with us.  It is always great to have many people chatting about different views on a book.

Books Received Last Week:

Bought:
So, I read the 11th book in the Otherworld series and really enjoyed it for the characters and the mystery in it.  So, what do you do?  Go buy more books in the series!

Synopsis from GoodReads:
An addictive, deeply enjoyable thrill ride on the frontier of the feral and feminine...a debut novel of astonishing imaginative power from the future queen of suspense. 

Elena Michaels slips out of bed, careful not to wake her boyfriend. He hates it when she disappears in the middle of the night, and can't understand why any normal woman would crave the small hours of the morning, the dark unsafe downtown streets. But Elena's skin is tingling, the pent-up energy feels like it's about to blow her muscles apart; she can't put it off any longer. She loves to run at the edge of the city, but she doesn't have time to get there. She has to slink into an alley, take off her clothes and hide them carefully, and make the Change. 

Elena's trying hard to be normal. She hates her strength, and her wildness, and her hunger for food, for sex, for running in the night, for the chase and the kill. She wants a husband, children…even a mother-in-law. Or at least that's what she tells herself. 

And then the inevitable happens. The Pack needs her. The Pack she loves and hates is under siege from a bunch of disreputable and ruthless mutts who are threatening to expose them all, breaking all the rules that have kept them safe. The loyalty of her nature calls her home, and into the fight, which tests just who Elena is: the wild woman or the wistful would-be human.

So, how are you faring this week?  Does it look like a good reading week?

Here's to you having a great week in words and pages.