Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Staci from Life in the Thumb  is hosting for the month of August.

I received one book, thanks to the author:

1) Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward:

For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer. Here Lauren and her older brother, Alex, thought they were safe. But one morning, six-year-old Lauren and eight-year-old Alex awoke after a night spent in their tree house to discover their mother’s body and their beloved father arrested for the murder. Years later, Lauren is surrounded by uncertainty. Her one constant is Alex, always her protector, still trying to understand the unraveling of his idyllic childhood. Then Alex disappears. As Lauren is forced to peek under the floorboards of her carefully constructed memories, she comes to question the version of her history that she has clung to so fiercely. Lauren’s search for the truth about what happened on that fateful night so many years ago is a riveting tale that will keep readers feverishly turning pages.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey.

I finished two books after SO long:

1) The Abduction by John Grisham
2) Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward

If you were (are) going on vacation, what books would you take with you?


I usually pick a book of poetry and lots of crime fiction!