Monday: Start of another reading week!

Do you have a set reading time (before bed, perhaps)? Do you read more at night or during the day? Is there a day of the week, perhaps, that you set aside to catch up on reading?

I don't have any fixed time for reading. I do it any time of the day or night. However, if I am reading a very interesting book I stay up late till I finish it. Yes, during vacations, I tend to read more. There has been days, I don't read at all and then there are days, I am on a roll. It depends on my mood.

I can read in a flight or train but not in a bus or car. I used to be able to do that but not any more. I love to curl up with a cup of tea. And while waiting in a queue for anything, book is the greatest of company!

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Received the following:

At the Threshold of Alchemy by John Amen--Poetry

This is a brutally realistic book of poetry. By immersing himself in the particular details of his most meaningful moments, John Amen transforms hurt into poems that are both imaginative and lyrically expressive. With metaphoric daring and off-beat grace, he guides us through haunting and sometimes violent memories of roving through America's southland. Includes the 260 line poem-sequence "Portraits of Mary", hailed by poet Jared Smith as "perhaps the most complex, intricate, and thoroughly honest love poem in all of contemporary poetry". A thoroughly human book of memorable poems of great intensity by one of our best younger poets.

Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie....ARC

Virginia Kate, the daughter of a beautiful mountain wild-child and a slick, Shakespeare-quoting salesman, relives her turbulent childhood and the pain of her mother’s betrayals. Haunted by ghosts and buried family secrets, Virginia Kate struggles to reconcile three generations of her family’s lost innocence.

The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Fifteen-year-old Shep is shot and killed during an apparent robbery in their home. The murderer, a young mechanic with a history of assault, robbery, and drug-related offenses, is caught and sentenced to death.

Years later, Irene receives the notice that she had craved for so long--Daniel Robbin has stopped his appeals and will be executed within a month. This announcement shakes the very core of the Stanley family. Irene, it turns out, isn't the only one with a shocking secret to hide. As the execution date nears, the Stanleys must face difficult truths and find a way to come to terms with the past.

Dramatic, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting, The Crying Tree is an unforgettable story of love and redemption, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the transformative power of forgiveness.

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event hosted by J. Kaye of J. Kaye's Book Blog, "to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finish this week."


Last week I finished (Click on the bolded titles to read the reviews) :

Mirror Blue by Thomma Lyn Grindstaff

Visions by Jean Koning

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Landscape with Flatiron by Haruki Murakami...Short Story

Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein

In The Shadow of the Glacier by Vicki Delaney

Currently Reading:

A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill

and

Whatever would take my fancy!