Sunday Post (92) / It's Monday, What Are You Reading

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. It's Monday, What Are You Reading is a fun weekly meme now hosted by Kathryn at Book Date, where we share what we've read and reviewed over the past week and what we plan to read next.

I am writing this post from my parents' home where I will be till Tuesday. My dad is going to have a heart catheterization done on Monday morning to see if he has any blockages. Please keep him in your thoughts. We are feeling pretty positive as his cardiologist is not too worried. Tuesday is my mom's birthday but we will be celebrating it today (Sunday) since Monday and Tuesday will be spent at the hospital. 

It's been a crazy first week of the summer reading program at the library. We have been so incredibly busy! The good thing is that it makes the day fly by but I also have so much work to do. So far over 90 adults are participating in the summer challenge. On Monday night I had my rock painting craft night which was fun. Ten people attended and they seemed to really enjoy it. I told them about The Kindness Rocks Project which is what inspired the craft night. 

Now I have my two big programs to plan for in just two weeks. We have our third annual Comic Con in the Burg on June 23rd and 24th and then on June 26th I have my 80s murder mystery dinner. I have a lot of details to figure out still and we are so behind in getting the word out about Comic Con which worries me. Our first year we had 100+ people and last year I think we had around 60. This year the event is big and we are putting a lot of effort (and money) into it. Hopefully people will attend and it will be a success! I also need to finish my Ms. Marvel costume. The month is just going so quickly!

Last week on my blog:

Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf (review)

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (review)

Books read:

Royally Roma by Teri Wilson

This is a contemporary romance inspired by Roman Holiday. In this version, a prince is visiting Rome and decides to ditch his responsibility to go sightseeing with the heroine, a tour guide who believes he is her client.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This fascinating novel is written like a tell all from a film star of Hollywood's Golden Age. Although the characters are all fictional Hollywood stars, I really enjoyed it. Evelyn Hugo led quite a life. 

DNF:

The Summer House by Hannah McKinnon

I so badly wanted to like this book. I enjoyed Mystic Summer but for some reason even though I thought this started off well I wasn't interested once it was no longer just about Clem. I couldn't connect with the characters and I couldn't get into the story. I think if the book was just from Clem's point of view I would have liked it more. 

Currently reading:

The Undateable by Sarah Title

So far this is a lot of fun. Bernie is an academic librarian who becomes an internet sensation when a picture of her is made into a meme, Disapproving Librarian. A magazine writer wants to write a series of articles on her and set her up on dates to prove she isn't "undateable". I wanted something lighthearted to read and this seems to fit the bill.

On My TBR pile:

Falling for Trouble by Sarah Title

This is the second book in the Librarians in Love series and features one of Bernie's friends as the hero.

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

I started reading this but decided to save it for later. I thought what I read of it was good and one of my coworkers really liked it. It inspired by true accounts of kids who were stolen from their families by Georgia Tann, this horrid woman who sold kids to wealthy couples who wanted to adopt.

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

This will be the final book I review for Library Journal as I recently resigned as a reviewer after three years.  The book will be published early next year and is a historical novel set in Korea during WWII and South Korea in 2011.

New books received:

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (for review)

Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar (for review)

Falling for Trouble by Sarah Title (for review)

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht (for review)

True to You by Becky Wade (library book)

How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana (library book)