Sunday Salon: A Books Report

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the American moms! If your wish for the day is some quality time alone with a book and your preferred beverage, I hope your family gifts you with that.

Since my March NaBloPoMo adventure ended, my posting frequency here has dropped to about three times a week, and I’ve gotten surprisingly comfortable with that. However, I’ve just realized it’s been about six weeks since I last did a Reading Status Report...and so, a Sunday Salon post is born!

Reviews posted since the last report:

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua

Little Princes, by Conor Grennan

The Good Father: A Novel, by Noah Hawley

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson

Note: my full review archive is on Goodreads

Upcoming reviews:
Domestic Violets, by Matthew Norman
I Am Forbidden: A Novel, by Anouk Markovits (TLC Book Tour)
The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty (TLC Book Tour)
Drowned, by Therese Bohman (originally for Shelf Awareness)

Posts about bookish events:

Judy Blume at the LA Times Festival of Books

John Green and Lev Grossman at the LA Times Festival of Books

Christopher Moore at Vroman’s Bookstore

Armchair BEA agenda and sign-up announcement

New arrivals in TBR Purgatory: 
Note: my last Bookkeeping post went up while I was still on my Lenten book-buying ban, so you’ll see I’ve made up for some lost time!

Purchased in print:
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, by Simon Reynolds
The Submission: A Novel, by Amy Waldman
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka

Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante
Radio Shangri-La: What I Discovered on my Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, by Lisa Napoli
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West. by Dorothy Wickenden
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art, by Christopher Moore

Purchased as e-books:
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family 

Undone, by Melissa Coleman  (which I will try to read before I see Kim at BEA in three weeks! Also: just three weeks till BEA!)

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff

Won in giveaways:
Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet, by Heather Poole
Then Came You: A Novel, by Jennifer Weiner

For review consideration:
An Uncommon Education: A Novel, by Elizabeth Percer
I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't, by Jennifer Gilbert

This bookish bounty is partly responsible for my reduced blogging activity, although it will eventually give me plenty to blog about! What are you reading, or blogging about, today?