Weekend Update: May 28, 2011

This week:
I finished reading Good People by Marcus Sakey and as usual with his books I’ll be passing this one along to the Hubster. It’s a good suspense thriller. I’ll have more of a review of that one up next week. I also went back picked up Purity in Death by J.D. Robb. This is a book I’d started back in March when we were on vacation and had set aside for something else and never managed to get back to. The Eve Dallas series is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. The combination of crime fiction, a bit of romance and some ‘science-fiction light’ given the series setting slightly in the future is just fun. It’s a ridiculously long series (the latest release is #33) that I’m about halfway through and still enjoying.

This little guy sat in the tree and watched me read on the front porch one afternoon this week

I’m still not finished listening to Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters, but will likely finish that one up this week. I guess I need to pick my next audiobook pretty soon.


Other than books and reading:
I pretty much took this week off from book reviews here on the blog. Many of the book bloggers I know have spent this week either in New York at Book Expo America or they’ve been busy with a huge week of blogging with Armchair BEA. It seemed like an opportune time to take a short break here and focus on reading and getting reviews written for next week.

I’ve also been toying with an idea for a new regular weekly posting here that I’ll tell you more about on Monday.

Last weekend we headed out to the Gaston, Oregon area for some wine tasting. Memorial Day and Thanksgiving weekends are the major Wine Tasting times here and many places have started doing preview events the weekend before. One of our favorites does that and it’s nice to have a chance to avoid some of the crowds and get more of an opportunity to chat with the winemakers. The place we went is one where several of our favorite winemakers get together so it makes for one stop shopping for us. As usual we had no trouble finding several wines that were worthy of adding to our supply. We’ll probably head out this weekend to a couple of other wineries we like.

I need to spend some time working on photos. I have at least two weeks worth of photos either still on the camera or on the computer but not edited or organized. Maybe this week I’ll finally get to those so I can have some photos so share over at Out on a Whim.


Added to my TBR List (To Be Read) this week:

These Dark Things by Jan Weiss

I first learned about this one at S.Krishna’s Books when she mentioned it as one she was looking forward to. A new mystery series set in Italy? I had to give it a chance.

Hourglass by Myra McEntire

It was this review by Pam at Bookalicio.usBookalcio.us that prompted me to give this one a try. I’d overloaded a bit on the YA stuff and haven’t been reading it much lately, but Pam’s praise for the time travel science in this one intrigues me because I know how picky she is about time travel stories.

The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

Mulholland Books posted the first chapter of this book earlier this week. After reading only part of that first chapter, I’m hooked and looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

Purchased this week:

I didn’t buy any books this week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more books in my house because my library request list got a workout.

Since the Library Stack was down to one last week, it seemed like a good time to restock my library books:

Have a great weekend!