Welcome to another Monday Potpourri: a place to chat about tidbits and quirky things. Like today’s Musing Mondays, hosted by Should Be Reading.
Here’s our prompt:
Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
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Today I’m going to share about a couple of recent purchases: actually, they’re preorders, so they’ll be downloading themselves onto Sparky beginning tomorrow.
First, I’m anticipating Heart Like Mine, by Amy Hatvany.
Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the right man, she could learn to be an excellent part-time stepmom. After all, the kids live with their mother, Kelli. How hard could it be?
At thirteen, Ava Hansen is mature beyond her years. Since her parents’ divorce, she has been taking care of her emotionally unstable mother and her little brother—she pays the bills, does the laundry, and never complains because she loves her mama more than anyone. And while her father’s new girlfriend is nice enough, Ava still holds out hope that her parents will get back together and that they’ll be a family again. But only days after Victor and Grace get engaged, Kelli dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances—and soon, Grace and Ava discover that there was much more to Kelli’s life than either ever knew.
Narrated by Grace and Ava in the present with flashbacks into Kelli’s troubled past, Heart Like Mine is a poignant, hopeful portrait of womanhood, love, and the challenges and joys of family life.
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I have read some books by this author, and she is now on my list of favorites.
Next I’m waiting for Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson. I have loved every one of her books following Jackson Brodie, the detective. This new book is different, but sounds very intriguing to me.
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.
Does Ursula’s apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can — will she?
Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
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What are you musing about today? Come on by and chat with me.
The Atkinson is different that her others..but I will no doubt check it out.
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I love her others so much that I must read it! Thanks for stopping by, Caite…
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Hmmm…now I am musing about those books…I love Kate Atkinson…and heart like mine sounds good…really good…kind of like a Jane Green book!
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Oh, it does, Patty…have you read any of Hatvany’s other books? So good. Thanks for stopping by.
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Oh, I love Kate Atkinsons’s books! This is one I’m really looking forward to reading!
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Definitely! I literally can’t wait! Thanks for stopping by, Kwizgiver.
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All these books sound really interesting! thanks for stopping by my blog 🙂
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Thanks for visiting, Danielle…and now I must check Sparky, to see what Amazon fed her! lol
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Those look like some good reads. I have to chuckle that you named your Kindle Sparky
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Yes, it is kind of a funny name, Ambrosia….It took awhile to come up with it.
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your week.
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Nice purchases! 🙂 I heard about Heart like mine and I think I’ll gonna get it, because I just like the concept of the book. Sorry for the late reply! 🙂
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Thanks for visiting, Hogof…I have loved every one of this author’s books…hope you do, too.
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will also reading Heart Like Mine. Here’s my MM:http://daystarz.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/musing-mondays-march-18/
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Thanks for visiting, Daystarz Books! Enjoy your reading….
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