Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #48

Happy New Year!  The holidays were a whirlwind of fun activities, followed by a snowstorm earlier this week that left 8 inches of snow on the ground and plunged New York City into a deep freeze.  It's the perfect weather for staying indoors and curling up with a good book.

My first post of 2014 is a recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired during the holidays and this month so far, which I am sharing on the following blogs:

   

 Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer  

Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .

 

Finished reading . . .

                    

Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron; A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby

The books I ended the year reading were both set in England after World War II.

 

Currently reading . . .

  The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe

Set in Montreal, this novel is an interesting reflection on an older woman's life and marriage after she abruptly leaves her husband and home. 

Borrowed from the library . . .

   

The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern, The Road Home by Rose Tremain, My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock, and Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

An even mix of fiction and non-fiction, which is not my usual pattern.  I tend to borrow and read much more fiction than non-fiction.

 

Books received as gifts . . .

             

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison, All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg, and Blue Monday by Nicci French -- books from my wish list sent to me by my Secret Santa, Wendy at Literary Feline.  Thanks, Wendy!!  This event was coordinated by the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish. 

Ebooks downloaded . . .

              

Nook:  The Wyattsville Series by Bette Lee Crosby: Spare Change, Jubilee's Journey, and A Home in Hopeful;  Scoundrel for Hire by Adrienne deWolfe, and Love Thy Neighbor by Mark Gilleo

  

Kindle:  Frail Blood by Jo Robertson, Nursing a Grudge by Diana Orgain, and Picking Lemons by J.T. Toman (for a book tour later this month)

Which books did you get this week?
   

Catherine

 

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