It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (June 10, 2019)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

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 will be combining my YA and adult reading and purchases on this one weekly roundup.

Other Than Reading...

This has been a good week. I have been doing a lot of walking along with my Curves visits. The weather has been just great!

This week saw a visit from a service that analyzes our home energy uses and suggests ways to improve. It was a free service and required by our power company before we can do our solar install. We got a lot of good ideas along with some freebies including energy efficient light bulbs, an energy efficient power strip, and even a low water flow shower head. Of course, there were also ideas we have no intention of implementing. We like have two refrigerators and two freezers and the freezers, at least, are almost always full!

Weather permitting (and thunderstorms are in the forecast), our solar install will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The man who called from the installing company said they like to start work at 7 AM. He heard my whimper when he said that. Days don't count as starting for me until the time reaches double digits! I am definitely a night owl. Oh, well, it should only be a couple of days.

Read Last Week

If you can't wait until the review shows up on my blog, reviews are posted to LibraryThing and Goodreads as soon as I write them (usually right after I finish reading a book.)

• Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop (Mine and a reread)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (Mine 2019) - This is the first Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell historical mystery. I read it years ago and didn't keep the book. I got the Kindle copy. My review will be posted on August 18. It was scheduled earlier but I needed to move it for July 9 releases that I got this week.
• The Pawful Truth by Miranda James (July 16) - This is the eleventh book in the Cat in the Stacks cozy mystery series. I've only read two but enjoyed this story of Librarian Charlie Harris getting involved in another mystery and solving it with the help of his Maine coon cat Diesel. My review will be posted on July 9.

• Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg (July 9) - This was an excellent contemporary YA story about a girl who discovers that she was kidnapped by her father as a toddler when she applies to college. Her sense of identity is tested when her mother, who had been looking for her for 15 years, sweeps in and takes her back to a life and people she doesn't know or want. My review will be posted on July 6.
• Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh (Mine 2019) - The latest in the Psy-Changeling series was another excellent paranormal romance with a lot of suspense too. My review will be posted on June 11.

• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (July 9) - This laugh-out-loud contemporary romance tells the story of Nina Hill who discovers, after the death of the father she never knew, that she has sisters, a brother, nieces, nephews, and even great-nieces and nephews which really rocks the world of this solitary, anxiety-prone bookworm. My review will be posted on July 7.
• The Hills Have Spies by Mercedes Lackey (Mine 2019) - I really enjoy the Valdemar fantasy stories by Lackey and had been waiting until the paperback was released to lower the Kindle price before buying this one. It was a great story that would work quite well as a YA or even Middle Grade title. My review will be posted July 3.

Currently

• Eye Spy by Mercedes Lackey (July 9)

Next Week

• The Forgotten Room by Karen White, Beatriz Williams & Lauren Willig (Mine 2019) - I began this one but set it aside to read the July 9 review books I just got.
• The Demon Prince by Ann Aguirre (Mine 2019)
• Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag (Mine since Jan. 12, 2011)

• The Stars Down Under by Sandra McDonald (Mine 2019)
• Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal (Mine 2019)
• Tall, Dark & Damaged by Sarah Andre (Mine 2019)

Reviews Posted

• The Book Supremacy by Kate Carlisle
• The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
• Sweet Tea and Secrets by Joy Avon

• The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy
• The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White

Want to See What I Added to My Stack Last Week?

Bought:

• A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
• Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh
• The Hills Have Spies by Mercedes Lackey

Review:

• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (July 9)
• Eye Spy by Mercedes Lackey (July 9)

• How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne (August 27)
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca (September 3)

What was your week like?