It's Monday! What Are You Reading #518, May 10th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #517
Teaser Tuesday #525
WWW Wednesday #525
WOW #521
Will the Time Come #518
Third Sentence Thursday #508
Random Reads #494
First Lines Friday #521
Book Blogger Hop #187
The Reward Challenge Update #503
Wheel of TBR #50
How Well I Stuck to It #355
Wrote that Review Update #352

Week 18 Reviews:
Shadowed Steel

Sightwitch

Written in Red

Murder of Crows

Vision in Silver

Marked in Flesh

Etched in Bone

DesertAThon: 

Update 3

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OK, so I got 18 posts in 7 days, and it was a fairly short week, but I started rereading The Others series even though I hadn't planned on it. Oh, well, I really enjoyed reading them again, and I can't wait for next week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Gods of Jade and Shadow and The Haunting of Hill House. 

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.

Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather's room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea's demise, but success could make her dreams come true.

In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld. 

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.