It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #SundaySalon

 

The It’s Monday! What Are You Reading meme is hosted at BookDate

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And the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz

Life…

My youngest daughter headed off for her school snow trip yesterday with forty other classmates. Thankfully the conditions are good, given it’s officially the last week of winter of here. It would have been pretty dispiriting to make the 12 hour coach journey only to be unable to ski. I hope it snows while she is there, as it’s something she hasn’t experienced. I plan on keeping on eye on the resorts SnowCams, to see if I can spot her.

Technically, it’s my 9th blogoversary this Tuesday (27th August), but given I’ve not long returned from a 2 year hiatus, I’m not comfortable making a big deal of it. I think I might just let this one slide by, and celebrate next year instead.

It’s the last Monday of the month, so time to check in with my challenge progress.

Australian Women Writer’s Challenge: 39/50

2019 Aussie Author Challenge: 11/12

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

What Happens Now? By Sophia Money-Coutts

If I Don’t Make It, I Love You by Amye Archer & Loren Kleinman

Matters of the Heart by Fiona Palmer

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Review: Meet Me in Venice by Barbara Hannay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: Tidelands (Fairmile #1) by Philippa Gregory ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings by Amye Archer & Loren Kleinman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: What Happens Now? By Sophia Money-Coutts ⭐️⭐️⭐️

*New Feature* Sunday Spotlight

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What I’m Reading This Week

 

A classic love story about manners, men and modern romance retold by bestselling Australian author, Fiona Palmer.

Western Australia, 2019: The Bennets are a farming family struggling to make ends meet. Lizzy, passionate about working the land, is determined to save the farm. Spirited and independent, she has little patience for her mother’s focus on finding a suitable man for each of her five daughters.

When the dashing Charles Bingley, looking to expand his farm holdings, buys the neighbouring property of Netherfield Park, Mrs Bennet and the entire district of Coodardy are atwitter with gossip and speculation. Will he attend the local dance and is he single? These questions are soon answered when he and Lizzy’s sister Jane form an instant connection on the night. But it is Charlie’s best friend, farming magnate Will Darcy, who leaves a lasting impression when he slights Lizzy, setting her against him.

Can Lizzy and Will put judgements and pride aside to each see the other for who they really are? Or in an age where appearance and social media rule, will prejudice prevail?

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A darkly funny and sexy novel that blows the lid off the medical profession and life inside a hospital by a young doctor whose anonymous article about the pressures of trainee doctors went viral around the world.

Dr Katarina ‘Kitty’ Holliday thought that once she finished medical school and found gainful employment at one of Sydney’s best teaching hospitals that her dream was just beginning. The hard years, she thought, were finally over.

But Kitty is in for a rude shock. Between trying to survive on the ward, in the operating theatre and in the emergency department without killing any of her patients or going under herself, Kitty finds herself facing situations that rock her very understanding of the vocation to which she intends to devote her life.

Going Under is a rare insight into the world of a trainee female medic that takes an unflinching look at the reality of being a doctor. It explores the big themes – life, death, power and love – through the eyes of Dr Holliday as she loses her identity and nearly her mind in the pressure-cooker world of the hospital. But it is also there that Kitty might find her own redemption and finally know herself for the first time. Darkly funny, sexy, moving and shocking, Going Under will grip you from the opening page and never let you go.

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Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair share of them, and she’s excellent at dealing with other people’s tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it’s an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated.

The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie’s old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren’t exactly thrilled to have a “lady” on the crew, even one as competent and smart as Cassie. Except for the handsome rookie, who doesn’t seem to mind having Cassie around. But she can’t think about that. Because she doesn’t fall in love. And because of the advice her old captain gave her: don’t date firefighters. Cassie can feel her resolve slipping…but will she jeopardize her place in a career where she’s worked so hard to be taken seriously?

Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire is a heartfelt, affecting novel about life, love, and the true meaning of courage.

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Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.

Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.

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