It's Monday - What are you reading?

    It's Monday - What Are You Reading?  is a meme hosted by Sheila to let fellow bloggers and book-lovers know what we are reading.

    I spent a few days out in Vermont this last week on a business trip, and before I left I was able to head down to The Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, which is an awesome independent bookstore.  I had time and luggage constraints, so I only bought two books (The Whole Five Feet by Christopher Beha and The Island by Victoria Hislop), but I will definitely make a point of heading back there the next time I'm in the area (and I define "in the area" loosely -- from where I was, getting to Northshire was a 75 mile drive each way!)

    I  finished three books last week:  Honolulu by Alan Brennert, The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham (both for my two book groups this week), and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes:  Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann.  On the plate for this week are:

• The Knife Sharpener's Bell, by Rhea Tregebov -  for fizzythought's World Party Challenge
• Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: stories, by Maxim Shrayer
• Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt - for the little reader's May read-along

   Since I also decided that I'd start reading Ulysses on Bloomsday, I think I should also start doing some warm-up reading of Joyce.  Darn, I guess I have to hit the library.

   What are you reading this week?  Enjoy whatever it may be.