Time to get all nosy up in your reading list – what are you reading this weekend?
I'm reading several books at once, which is NOT good for my brain, especially when I mix genres, but I started too many things that I like. I have one book on the phone, one on the coffee table, one on my Kindle – it's getting messy. But Pig was right – Liz Fielding's Tempted by Trouble [Goodreads | Amazon | BN | HQN] is really adorable. Plus, Tessa Dare's A Week to be Wicked [Goodreads | Amazon | BN] has been pushing all the happy-joy-joy buttons in my brain, too, and I'm trying to savor that book as well. That's not working as well as I'd planned.
So what books are pushing the happy-joy buttons in your brain this week? What books are you looking forward to reading this weekend? Share, share!
I am reading Pride and Passion by Charlotte Featherstone and it’s bad. So very very bad. http://www.goodreads.com/book/…
Just finished 1492 and Buddha in the Attic. Neither are really romances, but I needed a palate freshner before moving back into romance.
I’ve asked this before but I’m going to reach out again and see if there’s any suggestions. I’m from Appalachia and so any book that a main character is from post-sh*t-hit-the-fan-Appalachia I’m going to give chance (I just finished the Hunger Games series). But, as much as I enjoyed it, I know there is more out there that is a bit more…more…?
My real question is there any wilderness/survivalist based romance novels out there? I want a book with good romance and legit wilderness knowledge all wrapped up in 1 book, or series. Any ideas?
I’m currently in the middle of Treachery in Death and hope to move on to New York to Dallas by tonight.
I’m in the middle of Code Name Verity, about two young women behind enemy lines in WWII. So far it’s a very intense read and very well crafted (albeit not a romance). I think after this I’ll have to read something light and fun.
Right now I’m currently reading “When Passion Rules” by Johanna Lindsey. This is the first Johanna Lindsey book ive ever read and so far i’m enjoying it. Hopefully I can finish it this evening after I get home from work so I can start reading “The Devil You Know” by Liz Carlyle…
Just started Soul Hunt by Margaret Ronald. It’s the latest in the Evie Scelan series.
I’m re-reading a couple of J.R. Whard’s (heh), books because I need to load up on brain candy right now. Many of my in-laws are coming to visit and my oldest is moving out to college and I’m sorta freaking out. Yeah.
I’ve just finished Earth Girl by Janet Edwards which is a YA sci fi novel ..It’s brilliant ! And I’m 3 chapters into The Parisians Return by Janet Stagg – not technically romance, although there is a very sweet love story involved – and it’s just as funny and touching as her first book. Vive la Weekend !
I am reading a young adult book, Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles. very compelling story about a boy who hits a girl while driving drunk and spend time in a juvenile jail and the relationship they have when he returns home. Really good! I will be reading the next book in this series.
Just finished Kate Noble’s “If I Fall” and, like the “The Dress of the Season”, it was a like, but not love experience.
Started Lauren Dane’s latest Federation installment this morning. Nothing like red hot M/M/F action to perk up a Friday morning.
And then I’m all over “Crucilbe of Gold” for my Sunday beach read. Okay, it’s not the beach. It’s a lounge chair on my miniscule patio, but the peach chardonnay 10 steps away in the fridge beats sand in your bathing suit any day.
I am in the middle of “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield which is OMGFANTASTIC! It is actually a modern Gothic which harks back a lot to books like “Jane Eyre”, “The Woman in White” (which are referenced multiple times) and especially “Rebecca”. This is a brilliant book and I recommend it highly if you like classic Gothic tales.
Before that it was the Old Skool angstravaganza “Shadow of a Lady” by Jane Aiken Hodge and let me tell you the crazysauce cup, it runneth over. Rape! Revolution! Volcanic eruptions! Unrealistically fast-growing plot moppets! Homicidal homosexual pseudo-husbands! You name the trope, we gots it! If you like the old skool crazysauce, have at it!
I’m hoping to read some YA this weekend. Maybe The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen or Touch of Power by Maria Snyder. I also have some contemporaries to read, including About That Night by Julie James and Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey.
@ECSpurlock – Yes, The Thirteenth Tale is excellent – all the way through – enjoy. I also love Jane Aiken Hodge but can’t find her in ebook format – are you reading books without batteries or do you have a secret source?
I just finished The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman which is horror but not too horrible – I really liked it. I am now rereading Mercedes Lackey. She writes as if she is talking to 8 year olds and yet the stories are like crack to me – working my way through the 500 Kingdoms series again. A little spicier than her usual stuff. And I should cut her some slack – my daughter says I always sound as if I’m talking to 6 year olds, which is true since I’m a pediatrician.
I have been proselytizing about Katie McGarry’s Pushing the Limits. It’s a great romance that I think even adults can appreciate. The challenges the seniors are experiencing go far beyond dealing with a breakup or being popular in college. Noah is a foster kid whose life was totally destroyed when he lost his parents at age 14 and was put in the foster system. He hit his foster father in an attempt to protect a younger kid in the home and was labeled “trouble” and separated from his two younger brothers. His whole goal is to get a job, whether it is managing a fast food joint or something else, and put his family back together.
Echo is a girl who lost her brother in the Afghanistan war, lost her mother to a mental disease, and lost her family when her father married their nanny. She is afraid she suffers from her mother’s mental illness and has been blocking out a terrible event involving her mom because she is afraid of what the memory might hold.
Just re-read my way through all of Patricia Briggs Omega Wolf series, because I LOVE Charles and Anna, and I want more about Da (Alpha of Alphas, Marrok of the western world, and pancake maker extraordinaire). I thought it was hard waiting for new J. D. Robb or G. A. Aiken books – but nothing is as fraught as waiting to see what the Fae have in store for the world, and if Samuel will be truly happy, and if Mercedes and Anna will ever be Besties. Vampires and Shifters and Fae, Oh My!
I am in the mood for Fantasy lately, so I am re-reading books I haven’t read in years. I am leaning towards re-reading Curt Benjamin next. ( And I would *love* to know who he is an pseudonym for! All Goodreads say is that he writes Contemporary fantasy normally.)
I recently started reading Mary Balogh, so I checked out a ton of books by her from the library and have been avidly consuming them. Also, I just read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled, which I liked a lot, so I got some of her other books.
In print—I’m presently reading “Firelight” by Kristen Callihan and enjoying it. I’ve got Karen Robard’s “Shattered” and Jill Shalvis’s “Lucky in Love” checked out from the library, so they’ll probably be next.
On audio—I just finished Sandra Brown’s “Envy” (5 star listen—fabulous narration), and plan to start “A Civil Campaign” by Lois McMaster Bujold next.
I just finished Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts. I have to say it is one of the worst books I have ever read by her. Now, I’m cleansing my Nora pallet with the Three Sisters Island Series.
Right now I’m in the middle of Suzanne Ellison’s (older book—‘92), “Arrowpoint”. It’s booke seven in the connected series, ‘Welcome to Tyler’, where each book is done by a different author. So far, so good! 🙂
Just curious, how many of you have read this series? I know we’re always talking about new releases or upcoming books, but how many, other than myself, still read old books? 🙂
I came across this series last summer when I found book 1 in my used bookstore; it looked good, so I grabbed it up, only to find out later that it was part of a long series. Needless to say, I had to have the rest of the series, but as these are older books (‘92-ish), they are out of print, and not in e-book (yet). So between digging through my used bookstore and shelling out money online to have some used copies shipped to me, I finally found all of them.
If you like the connected-community type of books, with a good romance (if not always very spicy), and a bit of a mystery, which continues through the entire series, I highly recommend picking these up. If, you know, you happen to see them cheap in a used bookstore somewhere. 🙂 I’m only about half way through the series, but I’ve really enjoyed each and every one. My grandmother, whom I share books like this with, read the entire series as soon as I found them, and she really liked them! 🙂
After this book, I think it’s back to review books, though the ones I have are all ones that are out or will be out within a few weeks—no ARCs for next year for me. 😉 Lol.
Enjoy!
TBQ
I’m reading Moonglow by Kristen Callihan. It’s the sequel to Firelight which I enjoyed. Just finished Undercover Alliance by Lilly Cain which was a good scifirotica.
I read Shiver this afternoon and while I did not find it as horrible as I expected, I still plan on obliviating myself with a good dose of The Silmarillion this evening. For the weekend I have The Duke and I, which I actually only purchased last Monday as the first of two books I only bought because I saw them here. Second was Her Best Worst Mistake, which I bought on impulse and totally consumed last night.
And, because this weekend is blessedly work-free, for once, I’m going to re-read Faunblut by Nina Blazon. Which is actually an originally German YA book, now that I think about it. Huh. That’s rare.
Yesterday I read two novellas – The Girl with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir and Slow Summer Kisses by Shannon Stacey and both were great, in completely different ways. The Girl with the Cat Tattoo is one of those stories that really shouldn’t work but it totally does (it’s a romance with a bit of a mystery, and one of the narrators is a matchmaking cat – but it works – not cutesy or cheesy at all). I highly recommend it if you have to sit in a doctor’s office or other unpleasant waiting room.
I also read Castaway Dreams by Darlene Marshall – sequel to Sea Change – and it’s so good. Gave me that good book goofy smile look. Read Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh, which I enjoyed, but didn’t love, and definitely didn’t get giddy or gooey over.
I did get giddy and gooey over Country Mouse by Amy Lane and Aleksandr Voinov – an m/m and bdsm novella about a laid back America traveling in Europe who hooks up with a driven yuppy Brit. It’s both sweet and hot – my fave combination in that type of story.
I’m about halfway through Rose Lerner’s A Rose Among Thornes. The first few chapters were a bit bumpy for me, but now things are chugging along just fine, and I appreciate the beta hero’s impressions of the heroine, a woman who spends much of her time and energy using anger as a defense mechanism. Not as impressive as In for a Penny, but still good. I believe I saw somewhere recently that Ms. Lerner is without a publisher (someone correct me if that’s wrong); I like her writing and hope she releases more books in the future.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal.
I’m working my way through Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series. Luckily, they can be read completely out of order. I started with the first one, but the library recalled it before I could finish. Then I checked out a newer one, which was quite funny. But going back to the older ones, the humour seems to be missing (or I’m missing it?).
I have the newest from Stacia Kane, Nicole Peeler and Jenn Bennett on order, plus the second in Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. I own all the others but that one and have so many friends that I’m trying to pimp them out to who don’t use libraries that I have been forced to buy it. I like having complete collections, though, so it’s all good!
I won’t be reading anything this weekend because I’ll be too busy trying to finish the last research papers of the term—which are, incidentally, the last research papers I will EVER have to do for college. Graduate next week! W00t!
I’m reading the new Anita Blake…
Oh LKH…I just can’t quit you.
finished it yesterday. She’s written worse.
I just bought and started “Bitterblue” by Kristin Cashore. I actually liked “Fire” better than “Graceling”, so I’m looking forward to Bitterblue’s tale.
I picked up Easy by Tammara Webber recommended by Dear Author. I have the novella, Scandal, by Carrie Lofty. Also on deck, The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams and A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean.
Just finished a re-read of my favorite Heyer, The Grand Sophy.
I have four books going right now:
Finally cracked open Lisa Gardner’s “Catch Me” because eventually the library will want it back. Was just getting sucked in when I got distracted, will have to get back soon.
Halfway through Joey W. Hill’s “Something About Witches” but I keep putting it down for something more shiny.
Still have Meljean Brook’s “Demon Moon” on the nightstand. I will finish it one day. Really. I have too many more in the series in my TBR closet not to.
And finally, “The Cocoa Conspiracy” which is second in Andrea Penrose’s Lady Arianna Regency Mystery series. Mystery, romance, chocolate – what’s not to like?
I picked up Pamela Clare’s novella Skin Deep, which I really enjoyed, but the short story in the back “Marc and Julian Make a Beer Run” made me immediately have to read the entire I-Team series. I am in the middle of Unlawful Contact now, which is my favorite to date. I don’t know how I missed these before!
Just reread the 2 Abigail Reynold’s Woods Hole books The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice and Morning Light…and wondering when the next one is coming out.
I just finished reading Wool (Omnibus Edition) It was fantastic and washed away the awful reaction I had to a Romance in which the heroine, in her 30’s, has sex with a 15 year old boy. All I could think was, if I found out some woman was doing that with my 16 year old son, I’d want to do murder. I don’t care what excuse the author dreams up for it. It’s wrong.
But back to Wool. I highly recommend it. I loved Courtney Milan’s The Governess Affair, also a recent read.
I have fallen hard for Kristen Ashley and just finished her Dream Man series. Love! I have found my new kindle-crack, oh yes I have.
I am going to read “A Gentleman Undone” by Cecelia Grant next for a change of pace.
Reading the new novella from Roni Loren: Still Into You. But, it’s a novella, and I started it this morning, so I’ll probably wrap it up tonight….As a woman with 2 kids who is rounding the curve to her 11th year of marriage – this story is easy to relate to.
Also in the middle of re-reading the first romance novel I ever read, found last weekend on a trip to Half Price Books: Johanna Lindsey’s Savage Thunder. Sexxoring on a horse for the win!
I’m reading Nell Stark’s “Homecoming.” I’ve been waiting to read this for a while – thank God it’s the weekend.