Tuesday Intro

fistchapRight now I’m focusing on my Maisie Dobbs book as it’s a library book but as soon as I’m done with it I’ll go back to the one. In the meantime, this is perfect for a First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea.

“In hindsight, I should have known right away that something wasn’t quite right. The jarring noise in the middle of the night, the open window, the empty bed. Later, I blamed a whole slew of things for my nonchalance, everything from a headache to fatigue, down to arrant stupidity. But still. I should have known right t away that something wasn’t right.”

Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica

So I like I said, I’m definitely going back to this book because what I’ve read so far I’ve enjoyed. What do you think? This title will be released in a couple of weeks.

Mary Kubica has written a couple of other thrillers that have received some good praise. Have you read any of her other books? What did you think?

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New Month, New Book

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATechnically I started this book towards the end of last week but it’s the only one I’ve been focusing on this weekend. What am I talking about? Journey To Munich by Jacqueline Winspear.

I’ve been a fan of the Maisie Dobbs series for years and have enjoyed all books. Although mysteries I find that these are much more about the character, the setting and the time period. The last installment was a bit of a disappointment to me because I felt like I had missed on some major turning points in Maisie’s life because the story takes place after major events have happened but still I’m here for this latest adventure.

Maisie has now been recruited to help the British Secret Service to bring back a bookseller from a Nazi prison. She has to go undercover and of course it’s a very scary situation. I’m about half way through the book and I’m really enjoying this one.

So that’s what I’ve been up to this weekend. I did go to the bookstore yesterday but unfortunately didn’t make it to one of our Indie stores. I got a morning bike ride in and now countdown to vacation has started, which is what I’m most excited about!

Hope you all had a great weekend and let me know what new book you’ve started.

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Month In Review

MonthInReviewI don’t know about you but I feel like April just zoomed by and here we are at another month in review post. So let’s get to it.

This month I read three books: River Road by Carol Goodman, Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina and While the City Slept by Eli Sanders. By far the most powerful read was While the City Slept. I don’t think I got around to mentioning that I was reading this book but it was really good. Normally not my type of read as it is a true crime book but it made me sad and angry and just stayed with me for days.

I currently have five books I’m reading so I would like to focus on those before adding any new books but I’m so tempted by new stuff on my shelf and Kindle.

National Poetry Month is almost over and I didn’t get a chance to go to any spoken word events but I tried to read at least a new poem a day, which was easily accomplished by the daily emails I got from Poets.org. I also started reading a collection by Sonia Sanchez but unfortunately had to return it back to the library before I could finish it. I do know that I’ll be going back to this poet at a later time. I really enjoyed her work.

Looking forward to May I think I’m going to be relying on a lot of comfort reads as I have quite a lot of stuff going on but luckily vacation will be around the corner. In the meantime, did you know that Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day? I was planning to dedicate my weekend to organizing my house a bit but a trip to one of our Indie bookstores might be in the works. I’ll keep you posted.

Anyway, I hope you have a great weekend and I would love to hear how your month was. Any big reading plans for May?

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