IT'S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?

Sheila, at Book Journey, hosts this exciting Monday meme, in which we organize and structure our reading week.

Books Read/Reviewed Last Week: (Click the Title for the Review)

1) The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, by Kelly O'Connor McNees

2)  Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

3)  Men and Dogs, by Katie Crouch

Ongoing:
Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott

Books on the List for This Week:

1)  Home to Big Stone Gap, by Adriana Trigiani

This one is another in Trigiani's series that began with Big Stone Gap, which I read a few weeks ago.

Tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia is Big Stone Gap, the bucolic backdrop for Trigiani's popular series. In this fourth entry, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her husband, Jack, must come to terms with the absence of daughter Etta, newly married and living in Italy. (The country holds a special place in Ave Maria's heart: her biological father, Mario, whom she learned of and met only after her mother's death, is Italian.) Ave Maria has plenty to keep her mind off missing her only child (the MacChesney's son, Joe, died of leukemia at age four). She's a full-time pharmacist and the newly appointed director of the town's annual musical. Then comes news that her longtime friend, glamorous librarian Iva Lou, has been keeping a startling secret for nearly 20 years. Other developments, including a health scare for Jack and a Christmas visit from a colorful former resident, move the plot along briskly. With her original cast of characters, playwright and television writer Trigiani blends playfulness and pathos in this evocative portrait of a small southern town. Fans of the Big Stone Gap series can look forward to a feature film; Trigiani has written the screenplay and is slated to direct. Allison Block

2)  The Last Time I Saw You, by Elizabeth Berg

Here's a tidbit from Amazon:

A high school reunion and all of its attendant dramas is the backdrop of Berg's rose-tinted latest (after Home Safe). For Dorothy Shauman, her 40th reunion is the chance to finally hook up with her high school crush. She prepares weeks in advance for the big night, strange as that may seem, preening in front of the mirror. As Berg surveys the gamut of emotions felt by Dorothy and some of her classmates, she zeroes in on an array of stereotypes—the hot girls, the jocks, the in crowd, the out crowd—and considers what makes each one tick, offering the vanilla revelation that the person on the inside doesn't always match the person on the outside. It's cleanly plotted, ably written, and sure to appeal to boomers staring down the barrel of their own 40th reunions. (Apr.)

What are you reading this week?  Stop on by and share a little, so we can all add your books to our lists.


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