It's Monday, What Are You Reading? (Jan. 30, 2012)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading, is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.  It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.


I had a good reading week and read a variety of books including my first full-length audiobook. I read:

Iris and the Dragonflies by Rosemary Danielis - This was a middle grade novel and the last self-published book I accepted at the end of December. I liked the story and thought middle graders would enjoy the intrepid heroine and the Earth-friendly message. My review is here.

Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan was my first audiobook but it certainly won't be my last. I got the audiobook for review from Macmillan Audio. I really liked this science fiction story about the perils of life on generation ships fleeing Earth for New Earth. I loved hearing the story and thought the narration was very well done. My review will be posted on Feb. 2.

Because I don't just read YA, I looked for the next adult book on my review stack and chose Time Out by Jill Shalvis. I got this one from NetGalley. I love both the humor and romance in Shalvis' books. This one had both and was a great story too. My review will be posted on Feb. 4.

I also read the Bump in the Night anthology which contains stories by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mary Kay McComas. It had the story by Robb that I recently listened to. I wanted a copy I could pore over in print. The other stories were OK but won't lead me to the authors' other books. My review will be posted on Feb. 8.

The final book I read last week was Forbidden by Syrie James and Ryan M. James. This was a surprise arrival from Wunderkind PR and HarperCollins. I thought it was an excellent paranormal romance and I look forward to sharing it with my students. My review will be posted on Feb. 4.

I am currently reading Fury of Fire by Coreene Callahan. I just got this new paranormal romance from Amazon Vine. It will be published on Feb. 7. I just started it but it seems entertaining and readable. 

These are the ones I plan to read next week:

I have two more books from Amazon Vine that need to be read before the end of February. Witchful Thinking by H. P. Mallory and Touchstone by Melanie Rawn. However, they may be put aside for something else from my adult stack since I do have some time before they need to be finished. Here is a photo I took on Jan. 28 showing my newly rearranged recently arrived adult books (I just realized that they are not in alphaberical order but they are all visible now instead with stacks behind stacks. MUST ALPHABETIZE!):

Jan. 27, 2012

Here are a couple from my YA TBR mountain that I would like to read this week: (I spend part of Saturday morning re-alphabetizing and re-stacking the books from the top of my entertainment center and the top of the bookcase into one sort of cohesive group. Good thing we don't have earthquakes here in Minnesota. These stacks are taller than I am.)

I actually chose these two because they were on the tallest stack and I am so OCD that I like the stacks to be more balanced but wasn't going to try to put two or three more books on the bottom of the middle stack.

• Dark Passage by Mary Jo Putney
• Steel by Carrie Vaughn

Here is what my newly rearranged YA TBR mountain look like:

Jan. 27, 2012 - 99 books that I really, really want to read NOW

That was my reading and re-organizing week. What did you get read? What are you planning for the coming week?