It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This weekly meme is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date.

I'm reading: 

Something from my bookshelf. In honour of the Christmas in July Read-a-Thon that ran on July 29th and 30th, this was my pick

TITLE: Make My Wish Come True

AUTHOR: Fiona Harper

PUBLISHER: Mills & Boon

PUBLICATION DATE: November 1, 2013

FORMAT: Paperback
LENGTH: 384 pages

GENRE: Holiday/Christmas

ISBN: 9780263910292

Family-orientated and Christmas-dinner cook extraordinaire Juliet is trying to keep it together in the wake of her marriage breakdown two Christmases ago, but the cracks are beginning to show.

Bright and vivacious Gemma was always the favourite daughter…So she has no qualms about leaving Christmas in her sister Juliet’s capable hands; and escaping the pressures of her glamorous job, and the festive madness by jetting off to somewhere warm.

When Gemma shirks responsibility once too many and announces she’s off to the Caribbean (again!); Juliet finally snaps. Gemma offers her sister the perfect solution - to swap Christmases: she’ll stay home and cook the turkey (how hard can it be?) and Juliet can fly off into the sun and have a restorative break.

In the midst of all the chaos, there’s Will, Juliet’s dishy neighbour who’s far too nice to float Gemma’s boat and may secretly harbour feelings for her sister; and Marco, the suave Italian in the villa next door, who has his own ideas about the best way to help Juliet unwind.

Will the sisters abandon caution and make this a Christmas

swap to remember?

I'm listening to:

Something from the library. In honour of the Christmas in July Read-a-Thon that ran on July 29th and 30th, this was my pick

TITLE: Twelve Days of Christmas

AUTHOR: Debbie Macomber

NARRATOR: Suzanne Elise Freeman

PUBLISHER: Random House Audio

PUBLICATION DATE: October 4, 2016

FORMAT: Unabridged audiobook

LENGTH: 5 hrs and 23 mins

GENRE: Romance/Contemporary, Holiday

In a festive annual tradition, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber returns with another original holiday novel full of romance and cheer. This time around, a plucky young woman clashes with a real-life Scrooge—her grouchy, arrogant, annoyingly handsome neighbor—and tries to get even the only way she knows how: by killing him with kindness.

I just finished:

TITLE: Beyond Exile

SERIES: Day by Day Armageddon, Book #2
AUTHOR: J.L. Bourne

PUBLISHER: Pocket Books

PUBLICATION DATE: July 13, 2010

FORMAT: Paperback
LENGTH: 277 pages

GENRE: Horror/Zombies

ISBN: 9781439177525

Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.

Survivor, Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation; and the will to survive;as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility. But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?

TITLE: Into the Water

AUTHOR: Paula Hawkins

NARRATORS: Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Weyman, Imogen Church, and Laura Aikman

PUBLISHER: Penguin Audio

PUBLICATION DATE: May 2, 2017

FORMAT: Unabridged audiobook

LENGTH: 11 hrs and 31 mins

GENRE: Thriller, Mystery

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from--a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.

Beware a calm surface--you never know what lies beneath.

Cast of Narrators:
Rachel Bavidge, as third person narrator/Nel's voice
Sophie Aldred, as Jules
Daniel Weyman, as Sean & Josh
Imogen Church, as Erin Morgan
Laura Aikman, as Lena

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!