Monday: Mailbox/What Am I reading?/Musing

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. 5 Minutes For Books is hosting MM for the month of August.

I received two books in my mailbox:  

1) Sweat by Mark Gilleo

When Jake Patrick took a summer internship at his estranged father’s corporation, he anticipated some much-needed extra cash and a couple of free meals from his guilty dad. He would never have guessed that he'd find himself in the center of an international scandal involving a U.S. senator, conspiracy, backroom politics, and murder. Or that his own life would hang in the balance. Or that he’d find help – and much more than that – from a collection of memorable characters operating on all sides of the law. Jake’s summer has turned into the most eventful one of his life. Now he just needs to survive it.

From the sweatshops of Saipan to the most powerful offices in Washington, SWEAT rockets through a story of crime and consequences with lightning pacing, a twisting plot, an unforgettable cast of characters, and wry humor. It is another nonstop thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in suspense fiction.

2) Winter Journal by Paul Auster

In 1982, following the death of his father, Paul Auster published what has become a classic of personal memoir writing, The Invention of Solitude. Now, on the 30^th Anniversary of his breakthrough debut, Auster gives us another unconventional memoir with Winter Journal.

Auster, now thirty years older, confronts his own aging, writing a history of his body and his experience as a human being, life’s horrors and its great joys. Facing his sixty-fourth winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations – both pleasurable and painful.

A bookend to The Invention of Solitude, Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.

I also downloaded the following galleys from Netgalley:

Heiress Behind the Headlines by Caitlin Crews
Duty and the Beast by Trish Morey
Two Wrongs Make a Marriage by Christine Merrill
Her Good Thing by Vanessa Miller
Handpicked Husband by Winnie Griggs
The Valtieri Baby by Caroline Anderson
How to Disgrace a Lady by Bronwyn Scott
Improve Sewing by Nicole Blum, Debra Immergut

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

I finished reading:

The Inconvenient Duchess by Christine Merrill
Duke of Deception by Stephie Smith
Spring's Fury by Denise Domning

I am in the midst of reading:

Varied Novels!
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Have you ever reread a book and found that your opinion changed?

Not really. But yes I have re-read a lot of books...