Finally Friday

Well, here it is, Finally Friday, for those of you who get the weekend off.  It is my Monday – sigh.  The above picture is of my son’s dog Rocko.  I adore him! Someday when I own a place of my own, I will get myself a boxer.

So the weather isn’t exactly cooperating with me today – it is cloudy and cooler than it has been the past couple weeks.  I was hoping for it to be in the low 70′s and sunny but maybe next week on my days off.

The dogs are wanting me to take them for a walk so I guess I will do that here in a few minutes – maybe a mile today.  I am supposed to be cleaning and doing other things, not playing on the computer. 

As most of you can guess, I didn’t get the two books read that I said I was going to over a week ago.  I’ve been rather stressed out so haven’t spent much time reading.  I do plan on reading tonight at work if we are dead but I have a feeling we will be very busy.  We have been busier than usual since Tuesday night so tonight will probably continue the trend.  I love being busy so it is no big deal – I will probably get time to read after 4 am.

So the two books are:

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Happy Friday Folks!

It’s Monday, what are you reading?

Here it is Monday already and I am back to work.  Have to say, it was a lovely week off and would really have liked to extend it another week but, alas, that wasn’t possible.

So what am I reading today? I am actually getting ready to start the following books:

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Goodreads describes the books as follows:

Clickers 2: he first wave was only the beginning. Since it’s publication in 1999, Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams has become a genuine cult-classic, garnering a legion of fans and single-handedly revitalizing the “munch-out” sub-genre. Like Jaws did a decade before, Clickers gave readers another reason not to go in the water. But now, it’s not even safe on land. Delirium Books is proud to present Clickers II: The Next Wave. J.F. Gonzalez has teamed with best-selling novelist Brian Keene for a second assault-this time on a national scale. The Clickers are back, wreaking havoc on a United States already demoralized and defenseless thanks to a category five hurricane and a president who rules through religious zealotry. Now, as the death toll climbs into the thousands, two survivors from the original invasion find themselves teamed up with a marine biologist and a mob hitman, and on the run from the Clickers, the Dark Ones, and their own government. And as their enemies close in on all sides, only one thing is certain-if they fail, humanity loses. Clickers II: The Next Wave.This time, the crabs eat you…

Various Haunts of Men: a lonely woman of fifty-three vanishes in fog; a fat twenty-two-year-old never returns from an early morning walk . . .
Experienced policemen know that most missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh young D.S. Freya Graffham won’t drop it — until she discovers what links the people who disappear on “The Hill,” young and old, men and women, even a little dog. Susan Hill writes with compassion, humour and a unique understanding of the details of daily life

I don’t know which one I will start tonight but think Clickers 2 will go relatively fast as the first book flew by.  I hope the second one isn’t a disappointment but they made a Clickers 3 so can’t be too bad, right?

When I am done with these two books – by the end of the week, I expect, I will probably go on to Jodi Picoult’s Lone Wolf. 

It’s Sunday, what’s in your mailbox?

It is that time of week again where we reveal how good or bad we have been on the book buying front.  Did you help keep your local bookstore in business or contribute to them going bankrupt by not buying anything? I truly wish we had a little local bookstore that had a cafe with wi-fi inside – I’d spend a lot of time and money there.  Don’t get me wrong, I love Barnes and Noble, but sometimes I want the atmosphere propagated by the library system rather than the raucous sounds of the crowd B&N normally has.

Let me say, I didn’t do much to keep B&N in business but here is what I have purchased this week:

    

This coming week I will be way too busy to purchase any books but the week after that I have four days off for my birthday and I’m going up on one of the days to the half priced bookstore in Cedar Rapids.  I have a small list of books I loved that I want to get in hardbound so figured it was a good place to start looking. 

What was in your mailbox??