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What Are You Reading?

May 9, 2010 By: Patricia

My interests are eclectic, so I read a lot of stuff. Books are stacked high on the end table by my favorite reading chair. I buy books at signings and online, win books in drawings, check books out of the library, and hit the used book sales that benefit the library.

A year ago, I participated in an online blogbooktour class to learn as much as I could about blogging for writers and the virtual book tour process. During that time, I met (online) a group of bloggers who’ve become virtual friends. Galen Kindley is one of those writers.

Galen recently awarded a bunch of his blog visitors with copies of Hearts of the Morning Calm. That’s the book I’m reading now. As you all know, I don’t do regular book reviews, but I do mention a book when I like it a lot. I’m about halfway through Galen’s book, and I’m liking it a lot.


“Since 2333 BC, long before the Western world was new, antiquity’s name for Korea was Chosun…Land of the Morning Calm.

In the fall of 1978, a small traditional jewelry shop in modern steel-and-glass Seoul, Korea, becomes Destiny’s playground. Fate capriciously induces an American military officer to browse the store and, in so doing, meet an intriguing and lovely Asian woman.

Foolishly, but helplessly, the Jason and Young fall in love. Their chance encounter and reluctant commitment initiates a tangled and haunting journey. For Jason, it is one of discovery not just of the woman he loves but her country and her people. Young seems too modern to be bound by the role assigned women in traditional Korean culture, so he dares to dream of taking her home to Alabama.

But what does a woman do when her heart is torn between the man she loves and the family she honors?”

What about you? What are you reading? (And if you’re a mom, Happy Mother’s Day!)

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Comments

  1. Patricia Stoltey says

    May 10, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Cat’s on the right track here. I should be reading (and revising) my WIP instead of devouring my friends’ books.

  2. Cat Woods says

    May 10, 2010 at 9:56 am

    MY WIP!

    Happy Mother’s day to you as well.

  3. Ann says

    May 10, 2010 at 9:18 am

    I am reading, “Ship of Fools” by Fintan O’Toole. A blogbooktour, wow that sounds really interesting as does the book you were awarded.

    Hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day weekend!

  4. Kaye Barley says

    May 10, 2010 at 8:22 am

    I’m reading Laurie King’s THE GOD OF THE HIVE. Love this series and this one is terrific!

  5. Terry Odell says

    May 10, 2010 at 7:42 am

    I finally got a library card now that we’ve moved. I’d been reading books I’d picked up at conferences, but they weren’t really the sorts of books I could get into. But I picked up some new reading material last week and am glad to have “MY” picks on my TBR pile. I’m reading S.J. Rozan’s Winter and Night right now, and am totally hooked. Another author to devour, I fear.

  6. WhisperingWriter says

    May 9, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Happy Mother’s Day to you!!

    I’m currently not reading anything. But Emily Giffin has a new book coming out Tuesday so I’ll be reading that.

  7. Kay says

    May 9, 2010 at 11:12 am

    I’m reading nothing.

    Can’t make up my mind so I’m staring at my to-read pile … though I discovered a Southern cozy mystery series (Sewing’s the gimmick.) that’s intriguing me, along with a YA skeleton detective, and ???

  8. Jeanie says

    May 9, 2010 at 8:14 am

    Since you asked…I have just read “Every Last One” by Anna Quindlen and “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay.
    Happy Mother’s Day, Patricia

  9. WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF POETRY: says

    May 9, 2010 at 7:12 am

    I don’t read that much owing to my life style but I do like to read anything by Paul Mckenna PHD, who helps one oversome stress, gain confidence and other health issues. The best book I did read a few years back was Celia Aherane’s PS I LOVE YOU. I was at a TV chat show and she was being interviewed.

    I enjoyed your post as always, I do find what you have to write interesting to read, always a pleasure.
    Happy Sunday
    Yvonne.

  10. Clarissa Draper says

    May 9, 2010 at 7:00 am

    I’m reading a couple of mysteries right now: First is “The Night Watch” by Sarah Waters and then I’m moving to “The Cipher Garden” by Edward Martin.

    CD

  11. Paul D. Brazill says

    May 9, 2010 at 6:35 am

    I’ve just finished Domonic Milne’s MY BLOODY ALIBI which is a ‘quicky’ from Pulp Press and was great fun!.

  12. Mason Canyon says

    May 9, 2010 at 6:27 am

    I’ve just started Elaine Viets’s newest release HALF-PRICE HOMICIDE and it’s fun picking back up with the main character.

    Hope you have a Happy Mother’s Day.

    Mason
    Thoughts in Progress

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I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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