It’s Monday, 3 June – What Are You Reading

It’s time for Book Journey’s fabulous weekly posting “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”

June, wow – where did May go? It’s now time for beaches, pools, vacations and just general relaxation. Much like last week, I didn’t finish any books, but for the first time in awhile, I did get a new review on the site! Yay! I’m still actively reading all the same books (Inferno by Dan Brown and A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki), I really need to get back on track for reading Born to Run because I just signed-up for my first marathon. A summer of training here I come!

Here’s my last week in review:

Books Finished:
None

Reviews Posted:
The Newlyweds

How about you? How was your week last week and what are you going to be reading this week?

May in Review

May is my favorite month – OK, it’s my birth month so that makes it the best month of the year already. But in May on the East Coast we (usually) are in the throes of a beautiful spring, for me my semester is ending – and this May also brought me a new puppy. So this was a banner May!

On the reading side, things were pretty good too. Here’s what my month looked like:

Books Finished:
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Starting Now by Debbie Macomber (received as an ARE from posting on Shelf Awareness)
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

My favorite book of the month was hands down The Age of Miracles. It is such a great novel on so many levels and can be enjoyed by many different readers. I will be posting a review soon, I hope, but don’t wait for my review if you’re looking for a new read think about this one!

Review Posted:
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

School is done, although I will be spending the summer working on my thesis reading,  I plan to get some more reading and posting done. I am looking forward to filling up my Kindle with some fun summer reads.  June is shaping up to be a good start to this summer of 2013. How was your May and what is your June looking like?

As I mentioned, this summer I won’t be just working, doing school work and reading – I just got a new puppy, and he will also take up lots of time with walking and playing and training, so it’s only fair that you see who is taking up this time. Meet Santino – you are welcome to call him Sonny.

April in Review

I know, I know … it has been awhile since I last posted. Trust me, I know I have basically posted that at the start of every recent post. The semester is winding down and in two weeks you will all be hearing from me a lot more. I will have more reviews, and more discussions of my reading progress. But in the meantime I wanted to do a post on the past month. While I don’t seem to have made a lot of progress in my personal reading – I have been doing a lot of reading … for school. It’s been great, but I am looking forward to a little time by the pool with some serious brain candy. I did have a few personal books started, but they are all hard copy books, so I have started yet another book recently, Beautiful Ruins, because it’s on my Kindle so perfect for time on the train, waiting for appointments and in bed reading.

I hope you all had a great April, and that you May is shaping up to be a beautiful one. We have had, and continue to have, gorgeous weather here, in less than two weeks I will be done with this semester, and my birthday is in three weeks so lots to look forward to on this end. Wishing you all an amazing May!

Book Completed:
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

Review Posted:
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey

It’s Monday, 15 April: What Are You Reading?

It’s time for Book Journey’s fabulous weekly posting “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”

If you follow my blog, you may know that in addition to being an avid reader one of the things in my life that takes my time from reading for fun and posting to you all as much as I would like — is running. I’m new to the sport, running my first 5K and then a half marathon last year, but I have now become a bit of an addict. I am proud to report I finished my second half marathon yesterday – the More Magazine/FItness Magazine Women’s Half Marathon. This is my 4th race I have completed this year with the New York Road Runners, and I hope to finish at least 5 more to get entry for the 2014 NYC Marathon. Now, as I sit here typing I want to send best wishes for an amazing day to all the runners up in Boston today.

Now on to reading. Yes I had work, and school and schoolwork – but I did at least finish up one personal read, Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds. Then, instead of reading anything I already had going (which would have probably made more sense to finishing another book) I started Debbie Macomber’s new one Starting Now – which I got as an ARE following a Shelf Awareness posting. I have never read anything from Macomber before, and I am enjoying it. I haven’t read a lot, but it’s a nice book to read to wind down before bed. I do need to get back to reading Born to Run and Pukka’s Promise.

So all good things going on here. I am happy with my reading, but I do need to get some reviews up (soon, I promise).

Here’s my last week in review:

Books Finished:
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

Reviews Posted:
None

How about you? How was your week last week and what are you going to be reading this week?

It’s Monday, 8 April: What Are You Reading?

It’s time for Book Journey’s fabulous weekly posting “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?”

I really thought I would end March so strong and catch up to be on track for 50 personal books this year. Wow – did that not happen. Not only that, I haven’t at least been keeping up with posting. Sorry for the lag, and thanks for understanding.

While on a little Easter Break I made good headway reading Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds. I am almost done and promise to have that in the completed column by next week’s post. It had a really good start, but it slowed and started to lose me in the middle – so it was easy to be distracted away from it. I continue to read a little in Born to Run but mostly at the gym. I am running a half marathon on Sunday, so maybe after that with less time training I will make it to the finish of that book, too.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not really beating myself up over this: I love that I have work, school, training and a life outside the pages of a book. And I appreciate that you all come visit my site and read the posts that I do mange to get up. So, thanks for visiting and I think you will see that there will be lots of posts in the future from me to read.

Here’s my last week in review:

Books Finished:
None

Reviews Posted:
None

How about you? How was your week last week and what are you going to be reading this week?