It’s Monday! What are you reading? 7/29/13

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys where you can recap what you’ve read this week while planning ahead on what to read next! Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee at Unleashing Readers added their own twist by focusing on kidlit, from picture books up to YA.

Here’s what I read last week on my road trip to Oklahoma:

(Click on the book covers to add these titles to your Goodreads TBR piles)

The Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #1) by Laini Taylor
Audiobook
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 9/27/11
YA Fantasy
My Goodreads Review: 5/5 Stars
One of the very best audiobooks I have ever listened to!

The Social Code (The Start Up #1) by Sadie Hayes
Original Title The Start Up (2011)
Netgalley book – Projected publication 9/3/13
YA Realistic Fiction
My Goodreads Review: 2/5 Stars

The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
Amulet Books, NetGalley Book – Projected publication date 8/20/13
New Adult Realistic Fiction
My Goodreads Review 4/5 Stars

My favorite read of the week….

Hands down and without a doubt my favorite read this week was The Daughter of Smoke and Bone. WOW! This book is spectacular and the audiobook narration is amazing. Taylor’s characters are so richly developed and the plot had me on the edge of my seat. This is one of my favorite books, ever. I cannot wait to make time to listen to book #2, Days of Blood and Starlight, which came out last year. Now I just need to plan another road trip so I can listen to it! Hmmm…

Here’s what I plan to read this week:

(Click on the cover for more info from Goodreads)

This week I am planning to read two books from my classroom TBR pile that I lugged home in June – Super and Legend and two books from authors I love, Relatively Famous by Jessica Park and Fly Away, the sequel to Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. A good balance of school and summer reading just for me. How are you balancing your summer reading this year?

Happy Reading!

Lesley ♥

5 thoughts on “It’s Monday! What are you reading? 7/29/13”

You aren’t going to need a road trip once you pop Days of Blood and Starlight in. You’ll happily sit in your driveway just to soak in the heartbreaking awesomeness. I really need the next one. The wait is painful. I am looking forward to the new Lauren Myracle book. I did not realize it was New Adult. This could be the perfect intro to NA for me. Have a great week! http://wp.me/pzUn5-1Bk

Lesley

July 29, 2013 at 11:19 am

Heartbreaking awesomeness? Oh dear. I must read this before school starts! I kind of categorized The Infinite Moment of Us as NA without ever reading NA before. 🙂 It’s definitely for much older readers than mine. Thanks for stopping by, Megan!

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