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Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:
- I’m currently reading…
- Up next I think I’ll read…
- I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
- I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I can’t wait to get a copy of…
- I wish I could read ___, but…
- I blogged about ____ this past week…
Todays random question is:
Do you have people in your life (face-to-face) that are readers like you? Or, do you find that you have to reach out to those online in order to find like-minded folk?
I am lucky in that I have a number of people I know that are voracious readers including my daughter, friends and work colleagues and so I am able to discuss books we’ve read, share books and recommend new authors to each other. However, I like the interaction I have with other book-bloggers which tend to me more focussed and frequent.
I am currently reading a book that is hard to categorise, Lay Me Down by Nicci Cloke .
Blurb
London: 31st December, midnight. For Elsa and Jack, a stolen kiss becomes a shot at real happiness. Eight months later, they board a plane to begin a new life in San Francisco, where Jack has found his dream job working on the Golden Gate Bridge.
But this is not your average boy-meets-girl love story, for Jack’s new job comes with an extraordinary obligation. No one told him about the Jumpers – the men and women who try to leap from the bridge to their deaths every year. One in particular begins to haunt Jack, bringing back memories he thought safely buried. As he becomes more and more preoccupied, and Elsa, alone in a new city, becomes increasingly isolated, both retreat into their pasts, back down the paths that led them to that New Year’s Eve. And the fragile love between them starts to unravel… NetGalley
I have just finished Second Life by S J Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep which takes a look at what happens when someone, in this case a female, is leading a double-life.
My review for this book will be posted later this week
Next I am going to read another psychological thriller; Hidden by Emma Kavanagh, which is due to be published on 23 April 2015.
Blurb
HE’S WATCHING
A gunman is stalking the wards of a local hospital. He’s unidentified and dangerous, and has to be located. Urgently.
Police Firearms Officer Aden McCarthy is tasked with tracking him down. Still troubled by the shooting of a schoolboy, Aden is determined to make amends by finding the gunman – before it’s too late.
SHE’S WAITING
To psychologist Imogen, hospital should be a place of healing and safety – both for her, and her young niece who’s been recently admitted. She’s heard about the gunman, but he has little to do with her. Or has he?
As time ticks down, no one knows who the gunman’s next target will be. But he’s there. Hiding in plain sight. Far closer than anyone thinks…Goodreads
What are you reading this week?
SeCond Life is on my reading list for this week,
Have a great reading week,
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
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Thank you Shelly, I hope you enjoy it!
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Wow, Lay Me Down sounds really interesting. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.
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I haven’t read very much yet and it’s quite unlike my usual reads. I’ll keep you updated 🙂
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Cleo – You have some really interesting-sounding reads there! I’ll be really keen to know what you think of Lay Me Down; it sound intriguing. And so does Second Life. Interesting how those domestic mysteries can creep up on you and be as compelling as any thriller could.
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In many ways I do prefer a domestic setting, for me it is often easier to put myself in the protagonist’s shoes and play the ‘what would I do?’ game than in an outright thriller where the tension is often more removed, in that I feel it is unlikely to happen to me… Maybe this is why I don’t have nightmares about these kinds of plots the way some people do?
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I’m just about to finish Second Life. Hmm…I wonder what you think of it? Looking forward to comparing reviews…
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I knew you were reading this at the same time as me and I did wonder what you would make of it – we will indeed have to compare reviews 😉
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that’s a lot of tension just in the blurb for Hidden 🙂
and 2nd Life sounds a good read as well – EnJoy!
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Thank you 🙂
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I answered the same question. Interesting books you shared.
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Thank you – I enjoyed reading your post 🙂
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I feel very lucky that I do have IRL friends and family members that are huge readers and I’m also in a book club. I tend to have different conversations with them than with bloggers and it’s interesting to see the opinions floating around blogger world and how they differ from non-blogger opinions….or not! The bloggers are also way ahead in reading, so I tend to talk about books with my IRL friends long after I’ve read them and discussed them in blogger world.
So – I love having both!!
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Like you I do enjoy having both but I agree the quality of the conversation is different – also when blogging I try not to talk about spoilers whereas I can do that with friends and family and discuss topics like whether the ending was good (or not) etc. Thanks for stopping by.
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I’m reading Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks, so far I like it but I haven’t read much of it yet.
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Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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I wasn’t aware SJ Watson had a new book out . Looks like my TBR pile is growing!
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I was very excited and it is quite a different type of read – I do hope you enjoy it if you get a copy.
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Ooh, these all look so good…with Lay Me Down, you had me at the Golden Gate Bridge…I lived in SF for a while when younger, and still feel so connected to that city.
Second Life looks good, too. Here are my BLUE MONDAYS MUSINGS
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It is an iconic setting but as I’ve never been I will have to rely on my imagination. Thanks for leaving your link 🙂
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I think that reading book blogs and writing my own has made me a more thoughtful reader and more focused in how I write/talk about books.
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I stopped to think when I read that comment but I do agree with you. I am far more likely to give a books good (and bad) points or discuss similarities to other writers if someone talks to me about a book now than I was before.
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These books look amazing! Even the covers are beautiful. Hidden looks so mysterious and cool. Great musing!
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Thank you Erica 🙂
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Great post. Most of my book friends are online, but I do have a few here and there that are local.
Hope you’ll visit me today at http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2015/02/musing-mondays-february-9.html
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I think the first book sounds interesting. This Monday Musing thing is not helping my TBR pile at all! 🙂 I suppose all of us feel more focused on books with our online bookish friends.
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I do love this post but when I visit other’s posts I always end up adding a few to my TBR! Thank you for visiting. 🙂
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My mum and daughters are big readers like me. I love seeing my kids with their noses in a book. We are always the biggest orders for classroom book orders. My oldest has been complaining of having no new books to read. She needs to bug her dad.
I finished off another historical romance. Now I’m reading murder fiction that has a setting of my hometown. The chapters are short and i always feel I’m off and running with the Women’s Murder Club series.
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Can’t wait to read your review of Second Life – loved her first book so hope this is equally as gripping.
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I enjoyed Before I Go to Sleep – will keep my eyes open for this new one:)
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I’m super lucky that my best friend basically has the exact same taste in books as me, so I always have someone to talk books with!
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