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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Monday, August 23, 2010

Welcome to another edition of It's Monday, What Are You Reading, hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey.

For me, it's more like a "Where have you been for the last two weeks post?", since I somehow missed the boat last week.    School starts today, and while my blog may have been slightly neglected, my classroom looks wonderful :)

So, since my last Monday post, here's how things stack up:

Books read:















Deception, by John Kellerman (review coming soon!)



Reading has definitely slowed down in my world-darn that having to work thing, anyway!  So, what's up next?


Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins


I was informed that my copy is on it's way from Amazon!  I read the first two in late winter, and cursed my friends who recommended Hunger Games for not waiting a few months so I could just read all three at once!

Wild Ginger, by Anchee Min


The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit. She rises quickly through the ranks and is held up as a national model for Maoism. Wild Ginger now has everything, even a young man who vies for her heart. But Mao's prohibition on romantic love places her in an untenable position. Into this sexually charged situation steps Maple, creating an uneasy triangle that Min has portrayed with keen psychological insight and her characteristic gift for lyrical eroticism.(from Goodreads)



The Passion of Alice, by Stephanie Grant


It's 1984. Alice Forrester is a twenty-five-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is taken to the emergency room of Seaview Hospital, renowned for its eating disorders clinic. There, family and friends in league with staff and doctors intently try to steer her toward recovery. But it's not that simple. She passes time at the clinic waiting to find out what is wrong with her. What happened. When and how the damage was done. (from Goodreads)

Whisper to the Blood, Dana Stabenow


Inside Alaska’s biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. “But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce” is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ the company has hired to improve their relations with Alaskans and pave the way for the mine’s expansion. And she promises much-needed jobs to the locals.

But before she can make her way to every village in the area to present her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two brutal murders, including that of a long-standing mine opponent. The investigation into those deaths falls to Trooper Jim Chopin and, as usual, he needs Kate to help him get to the heart of the matter.

Between those deaths and a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River, not to mention the still-open homicide of Park villain Louis Deem last year, part-time P.I. and newly elected chairman of the Niniltna Native Association Kate Shugak has her hands very much full. (from Goodreads)


Patternmaster, by Octavia E. Butler

 
The combined mind--force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition----except one. In the wild, mutant--infested hills, a young apprentice must be hunted down and destroyed because he is the tyrant's equal....and the Pattermaster's other son. (from Goodreads)

6 comments:

  1. I totally agree with your take on Straub's book -- it wasn't one of my favorites of his either, and a LOT of readers were very disappointed. It's like he's lost something somewhere.

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  2. Will be looking for your review of the Kellerman book...haven't read one of his in a while. My list is here.
    CMash

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  3. I think many of us will be having Mockingjay weeks. I'll have to avoid reviews. My copy is being sent to me at work and I don't start until next Monday. My Monday report is here. Happy reading!

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  4. Kellerman is always good for a thrilling read!

    Hope you enjoy your class this year...

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  5. I love your reading selection. The Passion of Alice sounds intense but good. Hope you enjoy and glad to hear your classroom is looking good :)

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  6. I have to look at your review of Clays ARk. I think it looks amazing and I now have it on the library wish list. And Mockingjay - I too am hoping for delivery today from Amazon - fingers crossed :D

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