Sunday, December 6, 2009

What Are You Reading & Mailbox Monday

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.
Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :
Dog Days by John Levitt
Burning Bridges by Laura Anne Gilman

This Week I'm listening to:
Dakota by Martha Grimes
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Last week I finished:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Sudden Fury by William W. Johnstone

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do).

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. Mailbox Monday is hosted by The Printed Page.



From The Book Depository:

Product Description:
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

From half.com:

Product Description: First in a new urban fantasy series-with a bite as magical as its bark. Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical...well, let's call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil thateven Louie can't sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he'll have to fall back on the one skill he's mastered in music and magic-improvisation.

15 comments:

Passages to the Past said...

They all look like great books! I hope you enjoy!

Laura at Library of Clean Reads said...

Love your kitty in the mailbox pic! Boneshaker sounds like a great read. Enjoy.

Ladytink_534 said...

It's been a few years since I read it but I love The Shadow of the Wind. Happy reading (and listening)!

Kristen said...

Fun looking books. Happy reading this week!

Teddyree said...

Nice line-up of books, looking forward to your review of Shiver, hope you enjoyed it :-)

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Boneshaker sound interesting! Have a great week!

DCMetroreader said...

You have a nice assortment of books--Boneshaker looks especially good!

Anonymous said...

I wanna read Dog Days!

bermudaonion said...

The Boneshaker looks really good - enjoy!

Serena said...

Boneshaker has a great cover and sounds great. Happy reading.

love the cat in the mailbox.

Ruth Schaller said...

Boneshaker sounds interesting! Hope you have a great week!

Alayne said...

I want Boneshaker!
Alayne
The Crowded Leaf

Katy said...

LOL! I love your mailbox image! Boneshaker has caught my interest--I am looking forward to hearing how you like it!

Happy reading!

Beth(bookaholicmom) said...

All your books sound good. Boneshaker caught my eye. Enjoy all your books!

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