It’s Monday! What are you reading?

Posted by melissa on 1/23/12 • Categorized as Book Reviews

Looking for a book suggestion? What a heads up on the books that bloggers and book lovers across the blogosphere are currently reading? Shelia, from Book Journey, hosts the popular Monday meme, “It’s Monday What are you reading?”

In addition to helping plan your weekly reading, the meme is a great resource for finding the next book that will be on your nightstand.

This week, I am reading:

Best Kept Secret, by Amy Hatvany. Have you read Best Kept Secret? Join the Great Thoughts book club discussion on Twitter! Thursday, January 26th from 8 to 9pm CST. Best Kept Secret is the story of Cadence, an alcoholic mother who once “had it all” and it’s “the story of how the secrets we hold closest are the ones that can most tear us apart.”

The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan. I am reading this book as part of Elle magazine’s Reader’s Jury. The Red Book is a fictional story about Harvard University’s traditional publication, the Red Book, a collection of essays written by alumni. The essays serve to update fellow classmates on their personal and professional successes. Kogan’s book features the lives of four roommates, whose lives are crumbling just as their class prepares for their 20th reunion.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick This is one of the first books that I bought for my new Kindle Fire. A man puts an advertisement in the newspaper for “a reliable wife.” A woman responds. An arranged marriage of sorts, complicated by love.