It's Monday! What are you reading?

This is a fun weekly meme hosted by One Persons Journey Through a World of Books.

This week I hope to read:

Ash by Malinda Lo

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.

The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.

In My Mailbox #1

In My Mailbox was started by Kristi over at The Story Siren

Risk by Elana Dykewomon

To change the world, you need to take risks. That's something Carol Schwartz knows bone deep. And it's something she's perpared to do.
She learned about risk as a girl. She never understood why, but her father chose to go to Vietnam. She never saw him again.
Now Carol, a Berkeley-educated idealist, tutors high school students. A Jewish lesbian, she's a community activist in Oakland. And she's learned to take risks of her own. She gambles her inheritance, her love, even her own well-being.
Across the years-from the mid-eighties to the post-911 world - the stakes get ever higher and her gambles more desperate. Until finally Carol finds out just what's left when the last gamble is lost.