It's Monday - what are you reading?

Another slow reading week, which ended with a horrible snow storm - in October!!! It snowed from Saturday 12:30PM and we lost power around 6 PM, which still hasn't returned - 2 days later. Thankfully our neighbors are super sweet, and have a generator (that works) - so we were able to hang out at their house until the husband got our generator working, this morning. And what seems a little weird to me (although I'm very grateful) - is that while we don't have power, we do have internet and cable (tv) - which came on when we got the generator up and running.

Weekly Reading with an Alien

Last Week I Read
Triptych, J.M. Frey. I had a hard time getting into this book at first - something about the jerky transitions at the beginning - but once Kalp (the alien) starts telling his story (which involves a 3 way marriage with 2 humans) - I was hooked until the end; so I ended up really liking the book.
Gwen and Basil Grey are Specialists for the Institute, an organization set up to help alien integration into our societies. They take in Kalp, a widower who escaped his dying world with nothing but his own life and the unfinished toy he was making for a child that will never be born. But on the aliens' world, family units come in threes, and when Kalp turns to them for comfort, they unintentionally, but happily, find themselves Kalp's lovers. And then, aliens - and the Specialists who have been most accepting of them - start dying, picked off by assassins. The people of Earth, it seems, are not quite as tolerant as they proclaim.

Currently Reading
Someday This Will Be Funny, Lynne Tillman. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by love's shifting chartreuse.

Next Book
Shadow Kiss, Richelle Mead. The 1st 2 books in this series were really good, so I'm looking forward to getting to this ASAP!
Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn't been feeling right. Something dark has begun to grow in her mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. And now that Lissa and Rose's sworn enemy, Victor Dashkov, is on trial for his freedom, tensions in the Moroi world are higher than ever.

- via Book Journey's What are you reading meme.