Svetlana's Reads and Views

My first It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Meme. No news is good news, correct? So far no news to report. What I read Last Week:  (Really loved Hurricane Dog and The Dog at the gate!) What I am Reading Now: (Am liking Hadamar as well as The Tender Birds)    Up Next:

So I decided to participate in bookish memes, (I hope I'm doing this right!) and this is my first one titled The Sunday Post from Caffeinated Book Reviewer. (Click here for more information.) This is my first Sunday Post. Not much has happened last week aside from me and my son becoming kind of sick, although we are feeling a lot better. I also have started to watch Escraba Isaura dubbed into Russian, which I am enjoying.(Episode 17 out of 100.) I also play some video games, namely Love Nikki, which I have played for more than a year, and Dragonvale, collecting games. Love Nikki is an addictive fashion game with amazing outfits, and in Dragonvale you collect really cool looking dragons. Last week on the Blog: The Bloody Black Flag by Steve Goble The Devil's Wind by Steve Goble Promised Land by Martin Fletcher From Wild to Mild A Dog in Two Worlds by Sunny Weber This Week on the Blog: The Last Thing She Said by Lauren Carr Hurricane Dog A Tale of Betrayal, ...

Name of Book: From Wild to Mild a Dog in two worlds Author: Sunny Weber ISBN: 978-0-9966612-7-0 Publisher: Pups and Purrs Press Part of a Series: Pups and Purrs Type of book: animals, coyotes, dogs, pets, in-between, kidnapped, raised, two worlds, modern times, winter, seasons, growing up Year it was published: 2019 Summary: Eight-week-old Australian Shepherd Kaya is kidnapped by a nasty coyote to be food for his mate and puppies. Instead, the loving mother raises Kaya with her own pups. But as hard as she tries, Kaya can't completely fit in-she can't kill prey or stay awake for night hunts. Why can't she make herself a true coyote? Constantly criticized by her coyote father, Kaya finds support in her new mother and siblings. She also figures out how to contribute through teamwork with her brother and sister. Trapped by a dog rescue, Kaya re-enters the human world and learns the differences between how dogs and coyotes live. When freed to roam again, does...

Name of Book: Promised Land Author: Martin Fletcher ISBN: 978-1-250-11882-0 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Type of book: Israel, 1950-1967, family, history, Mossad, Judaism, shaping, control, power, hidden secrets, wars, survival, travel, US Year it was published: 2018 Summary: "Promised Land is a great sweeping epic, reminiscent of Leon Uris’ Exodus." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cuban Affair Promised Land is the sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love, a devastating love triangle set against the tumultuous founding of Israel. The story begins when fourteen-year-old Peter is sent west to America to escape the growing horror of Nazi Germany. But his younger brother Arie and their entire family are sent east to the death camps. Only Arie survives. The brothers reunite in the nascent Jewish state, where Arie becomes a businessman and one of the richest men in Israel while Peter becomes a top Mossad agent heading s...

Name of Book: The Devil's Wind Author: Steve Goble ISBN: 978-1-63388-484-7 Publisher: Seventh Street Books Part of a Series: Spider John Mysteries Type of book: 1723, pirates, mystery, love triangle, murder, seas, trap, islands, sailing, deductive reasoning, confrontation Year it was published: 2018 Summary: A historical mystery that blends nautical adventure in pirate waters with a locked-room murder mystery, featuring a pirate sleuth whose wits are as sharp as his blade. Spider John, longing to escape the pirate life he never wanted, has an honest seafaring job at last and a chance to return to his beloved Em and their child. But when Captain Brentwood is murdered in his cabin, Spider’s plans are tossed overboard. Who killed Redemption’s captain? The mysterious pirate with a sadistic past? The beautiful redhead who hides guns beneath her skirt? One of the men pining for the captain’s daughter? There are plenty of suspects. But how could anyone kill th...

Name of Book: The Bloody Black Flag Author: Steve Goble ISBN: 978-1-63388-359-8 Publisher: Seventh Street Books Part of a Series: Spider John Mysteries Type of book: pirates, sea life, murder, mystery, 1722, cursed ship, witch blood, superstition, Year it was published: 2017 Summary: Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in the first book in a new series of swashbuckling historical mysteries featuring Spider John Rush, a most reluctant pirate. 1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm winds or the end of a noose. But when Ezra is murdered in cold blood by a shipmate, Spider vows revenge. On a ship where every man is a killer many times over, how can Spider find the man who killed his friend? There is no law here, ...

So I am crossing my fingers on getting certain book *coughs* The American Dirt by Jeanne Cummins *coughs* this month, which I am excited to read. I also made a realization that with only two months left, there are a number of books that I want to read but realize I haven't read. Like other readers, I imagine that everyone has a goal of reading all the books on TBR lists (at least my case, and it spans into, well, more than a thousand) but since it can't be done until cloning, here are a few books I want to read before the year is out that were published this year: MIRACLE CREEK by ANGIE KIM, LIMITS OF THE WORLD by JENNIFER ACKER, and I'M FINE AND NEITHER ARE YOU by CAMILLE PAGAN. (Will cross fingers for December) So this month, I am planning a trip to 13th century China as well as New Zealand during 1950s, possibly Iceland and Antarctica. Without further ado, here are my reading plans. Book Spotlights/Reviews: From Wild to Mild: A Dog in Two Worlds by Sunny Weber (No...