Monday, November 26, 2012

It's Monday 11/26! What Are You Reading?


I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends.  We drove to Rochester, NY, (my hometown) for the long weekend, stayed with my dad and his wife, and enjoyed lots of visits with family and friends.  It was a very nice weekend, and it was great to see everyone!  Now we are back home, with lots to do!

So, we didn't have a lot of time for reading last week.  Unfortunately, I can't read a book in the car (I get sick), but I can manage flipping through magazines, so I caught up on months' worth of magazines that had piled up!  Besides those, here is what we all read last week:
  • I am STILL working my way through Middlemarch by George Eliot.  It is a hefty one, and I am feeling ready to move onto something else....but I am still enjoying it and want to see what happens - 200 pages to go!
  • My husband, Ken, is reading Michael Connelly's The Fifth Witness (a Lincoln Lawyer novel) and enjoying it.
  • Jamie, 18, can read in the car (lucky!), so he finished City of Ashes (#2), read City of Glass (#3), and has started City of Fallen Angels (#4), in his quest to re-read Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series for the third time, in preparation for book #5 which was recently released.
Believe it or not, I did manage to post two book reviews before we left last Wednesday: Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian, a spooky, suspenseful novel, and The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman, a middle-grade/teen audio book.  I enjoyed both novels very much.

What are you and your family reading this week?

(What are you reading Monday is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, with a kid/teen version hosted by Teach Mentor Texts.)

3 comments:

Hannahlily said...

ohmygosh Middlemarch is one of my FAVORITE novels. It is HUGE though. read it in high school when I was used to having to read huge novels. Not sure if I could make it through the whole thing anymore!

Jo said...

Glad you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with your family. I've heard of all the books your family is currently reading, but not those you posted reviews for. Off to check your reviews...

Anonymous said...

Hello! I am so encouraged to see that your 18 year old is reading in the car with you. I have two tween boys of my own, and we are car-readers, too. I think one has read City of Ember, but hasn't read the rest in the series. Good to know book #5 is out. Thanks for the recommendations!