It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

It's Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly blog meme hosted by Sheila atBook Journeywhere you list the books you read last week and the ones you hope to read this week!

This week was a rainy spring break for me - I read a lot, and also abandoned two books. I just wasn't in the mood for them this week. Phil Rickman, I will see you in the fall, when I try again.

Read Last Week:

Farm City by Novella Carpenter: I don't want to say much about this one today, it is our book club pick for May, and I always do a book club blog. I will just say this for now: I am glad I read it.

The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead by Paul Elwork: This book was excellent. The ghosts in the book were not literal ghosts, like ones that haunt houses, but the ones that haunt a person internally, the ones they live with personally everyday.

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker: Last week, I had just started this book and stated I felt badly for Truly. By the end of the book I had changed my mind. This book left me feeling a million different ways. At the beginning, I felt sympathetic towards Truly- all the way up to page 219. This is where she turns a dark corner to me. After that, she seemed so full of rage and hate. Even her acts of mercy were tainted by this hate. True, she had some reasons to feel that way, but she also had reasons not to- Marcus, Amelia, Bobbie to list three. And while she had a difficult upbringing, she found a real sister of the heart in Amelia, and she threw that to the ground. Poor Amelia had to be sacrificed before Truly could be purged of her rage, and Amelia was the best of the bunch.

The writing and imagery were beautiful however, and I enjoyed all the turns and twists the book took, with the exception of Truly's personality becoming a little less than I expected from her. So, while Truly did not remain a sympathetic character to me and I actually hated her by the end of the book, the rest of the book stood on its own, and I loved the other characters, like Amelia and Marcus.

Currently Reading:

It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

It's Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly blog meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeywhere you list the books you read last week and the ones you hope to read this week!

I knew as soon as I posted the titles of the books I hoped to read last week that I would probably end up switching what I was reading. I am not loyal to a reading plan, and if a different book comes along I want to read more, I will. A few books I was expecting to get in at the library didn't come in, but others did. And, my Amazon order came! Yay! That being said:

Read Last Week:

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich: I thought this would be a fun horror read - how could it not be with the main character a self proclaimed "hobo vampire junkie"? Maybe I wasn't in the mood, but partway through, I set it aside. I am home on spring break this week, and if I run out of books, I will pick it up and finish it. Otherwise, it will be a book I couldn't get into, at least right now.

Specials by Scott Westerfeld: This is the last book in the Uglies trilogy - I picked it up after reading Twilight and The Hunger Games. I liked it more than Twilight and less than Hunger Games; I love this world that Westerfeld has created, very futuristic and scary in a conformist way. It is a quick, young adult read.

Pale Demon by Kim Harrison: I love this series by Kim Harrison, and her main character Rachel Morgan is so spunky. I have to admit, one of the reasons I enjoy it is that it is set in Cincinnati, and being from the midwest, I support all books that are set here. It is a fun series, and exactly what I needed last week. The week before spring break is nuts at work!

Currently Reading (or so that is the plan):

A Crown of Lights and To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman: Two holds of mine that came in to the library. I will probably read at least one today, since the nice spring Michigan weather has given way to SNOW today.

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County: I started this last night, and it is sad so far. I am enjoying the story, but poor Truly!