I’m just starting to pick up my reading again and after a slow week last week here’s where I am.
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Still reading:

New this week:

(audio)
Finished last week:

(Review)

(Review)

(Review)

I continued in on my Barbara Holloway series with Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm.
About the book: Barbara [...]

My little purse book was The Power of No: How to Keep Blowhards and Bozos at Bay by Beth Wareham.  I read snippets here and there when I had a few moments.
About the book: The terrible yes years. You know them well: You’re suckered into working late and often, unflattering haircuts and poodle perms, back-fat-exposing [...]

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
About the book (from her website)
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: [...]

Didn’t get much reading done with the Olympics on  but here’s where I stand.
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Last week I finished:
Review
Still working on:

(paper)

(purse book)

(non-fiction)
New this week:
(audio)

Recommended by the ladies in my Booklovers online group, I read  Book 1 of the Trilogy,  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
About the book: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capital surrounded by twelve outlying districts.  The Capital is harsh and cruel [...]

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading and asks you to :
1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3 . Share 2 “teaser”sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the [...]

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It was a slow week of reading.  Last week I finished:
Review
Review

I’m still working on:

(audio book)
New this week:

(paper book)
(purse book)
(non-fiction)

My little “purse book” was Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Character or Less by Nick Douglas.
About the book:
Product Description:

New York Magazine proclaims, “Twitter is the hot web company right now…the Next Big Thing;” the New York Times calls it “one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet;” Time magazine claims “Twitter is on its [...]

I finally was able to get to  The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi. I had it on request as soon as I saw her on Oprah and she mentioned it.
About the book:
In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, [...]