Monday, June 25, 2012

It's Monday and I'm back!


Hello, literary people! Sorry I'm posting this a bit late. I made a quick jaunt out of state this weekend, but I am back home in NJ (which greeted me with a torrential rain storm, by the way). I had a really good week for reading, though! This probably means that I should pay some more attention to cleaning my house or doing the laundry this week...

Read This Week:

The Magicians
By Lev Grossman

Code Name Verity
By Elizabeth Wein

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
By Ayelet Waldman

By Kevin Roose


Posts from this Past Week:
It's Monday
Wednesdays with David: You Can't Go to School Naked!
Reviews of The Cruise of the Rolling Junk and Russian Winter


Reading Now:
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Eyre Affair
By Jasper Fforde

Up Next:
The Chosen
The Chosen
By Chaim Potok


What book(s) are you excited about this week?

21 comments:

  1. That is a good reading week!
    How was The Unlikely Disciple? It's got such a good title...

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    1. It was good, but it felt somewhat predictable. I give a lot of credit to the author though, to go into an environment so different from his own and to keep an open mind.

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  2. I want to try to get back into the Thursday Next series. Great books this week!

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    1. Thanks! It's my first time reading anything from that series, but it sounds like so much fun.

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  3. I loved The Chosen. The movie adaptation is wonderful too.

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    1. I stole (borrowed?) it from my husband. He'll never notice...:)

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  4. Sounds like a really nice week!
    We've had rain for ages so it no longer dampens my day :P
    Love the books you read- Code Name Verity keeps popping up in blogs today I will have to check it out :)
    Have a lovely week!

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    1. It doesn't usually bother me, but it was torrential and arrived just as I was getting home!
      Do check out Code Name Verity - I really enjoyed it.

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    1. It was really good. I think I read it in a little more than a day.

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  6. I tried to read the Jasper Fforde series but its a little too weird for me - I hope you enjoy it!

    Thanks for stopping by Book'd Out earlier,

    Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out

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    1. A lot of people seem to really love it. I'm only about 50 pages in and I am cautiously optimistic. I have to really adore a series in order to read all of the books.

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  7. The Magicians has mixed reviews but I am curious enough to read it myself, especially because he finds out the fantasy world from his childhood is real! How cool would that be?? (Sorry, I have a bit of an obsession with wanting to get to Narnia someday!)xx

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    1. I know! I still check closets and cupboards just to make sure the back is solid and not an entrance to Narnia! (freakout over)

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  8. I love the Jasper Fforde books, look forward to hearing what you think about The Eyre Affair. Code Name Verity sounds very good.

    Lindsay @ The Little Reader Library

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    1. Excellent! Have you read all of the books in the series?

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  9. The Eyre Affair is amazing! And somehow the books in the series only get better - enjoy!

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    1. I can't believe it took me so long to get to it!

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