It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This weekly meme is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date.

I'm still reading: 

In light of the Sci-Fi Summer Read-a-Thon last week, I chose this sci-fi book from my TBR pile. A secondary reason for choosing this book is that it is the final book in the trilogy, and I'm really trying to finish series that I've started! Thirdly, she's a Canadian author.

TITLE: Raging Star

SERIES: Dust Lands, Book #3
AUTHOR: Moira Young

PUBLISHER: Doubleday Canada

PUBLICATION DATE: May 13, 2014

FORMAT: Hardcover
LENGTH: 448 pages

GENRE: Young Adult, Science Fiction/Dystopia

ISBN: 9780385679244

The much-anticipated, thrilling conclusion to Moira Young's Dust Lands trilogy.

When the star reader, Auriel Tai, challenged Saba to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo and the Tonton, Saba was confident in her purpose. Then she met DeMalo and he confounded all expectations with his seductive vision of a healed earth, a New Eden. DeMalo and Saba had an intense and passionate encounter - physical, emotional and psychic - that changed her life, and now he wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to create and build a healthy, stable, sustainable world...for the chosen few.

Jack's choice is clear: to fight DeMalo and try to stop his dangerous New Eden project. Still uncertain, her connection with DeMalo a secret, Saba commits herself to the fight. Joined by her brother Lugh, anxious for the land in New Eden, Saba leads an inexperienced guerilla band against the powerfully charismatic DeMalo, in command of his settlers and the Tonton militia.

What chance do they have? Saba must act. And be willing to pay the price.

Something from the library. I'm a big Alice Cooper fan, though I'm not a fan of golf!

TITLE: Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict

AUTHOR: Alice Cooper

PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

PUBLICATION DATE: May 1, 2007

FORMAT: Hardcover
LENGTH: 260 pages

GENRE: Autobiography/Memoir

ISBN: 9780307382658

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons--with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hundred days out of that year, Cooper is on the course.

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper's tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes.

Alice has hilarious, touching, and sometimes surprising stories about so many of his friends: Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, golf legends like John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dali to Elvis to Arnold Palmer.

This is the story of Cooper's life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around--all while rising through the rock 'n' roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.

Something from my bookshelf. This is my vintage 1970 edition, which I've kept from my childhood! I'm reading it aloud to my daughter, and our plan is to make our way through the whole series. This is a re-read for me, but I honestly don't remember a thing about it! It read it when I was young.

TITLE: The Marvelous Land of Oz

SERIES: Oz, Book #2
AUTHOR: L. Frank Baum 

PUBLISHER: Scholastic

PUBLICATION DATE: 1970 (first published 1904)

FORMAT: Paperback
LENGTH: 192 pages

GENRE: Children's Fiction, Classics, Fantasy

ISBN: 0590085654

"You'll never bother me again," says Mombi the witch, "once you drink this magic brew."

"What'll it do?" cries poor Tip.

"It will turn you into a marble statue!"

Tip's heart beats wildly.

Can a mere boy escape from a witch's evil power?

But this is Oz -- the marvelous, magical land where anything can happen!

I'm listening to:

Something from my review pile. 

TITLE: All the Bright Places

AUTHOR: Jennifer Niven

NARRATORS: Kirby Heybourne and Ariadne Meyers

PUBLISHER: Listening Library

PUBLICATION DATE: January 6, 2015

FORMAT: Unabridged audiobook

LENGTH: 11 hrs and 4 mins

GENRE: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mental Health/Mental Illness

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It's only with Violet that Finch can be himself - a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who's not such a freak after all. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.

This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.

I just finished:

TITLE: The Book of Ivy

SERIES: The Book of Ivy, Book #1

AUTHOR: Amy Engel

NARRATOR: Taylor Meskimen

PUBLISHER: Listening Library

PUBLICATION DATE: November 11, 2014

FORMAT: Unabridged audiobook

LENGTH: 8 hrs and 48 mins

GENRE: Young Adult, Science Fiction/Dystopia

What would you kill for?

After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual.

This year, it is my turn.

My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president’s son—my soon-to-be husband—and return the Westfall family to power.

But Bishop Lattimer is either a very skilled actor or he’s not the cruel, heartless boy my family warned me to expect. He might even be the one person in this world who truly understands me. But there is no escape from my fate. I am the only one who can restore the Westfall legacy.

Because Bishop must die. And I must be the one to kill him…

What are you reading? Have you read any of these books and, if so, what did you think? Please let me know in the comments and, if you are also participating in this meme, leave me a link to your blog post so that I can stop by!