WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Taking on a World of Words. Anyone can take part and it is a great way of sharing what you have just finished reading, what you are currently reading and what is next on the TBR.
The school term is now finished and I am free to read! It is very sunny and my pale gingery self can’t cope so I’m looking forward to hiding from the sun with a cold drink, a huge pile of books and the ever-present (but not long-lasting) family pack of Fruit Gums!
I’m now at 73/100 on my Goodreads Challenge.
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What have you recently finished reading?
I read ’56 Days’ by Catherine Ryan Howard. I fancied something pacey and lively and this book hit the spot perfectly. My review will be on the blog in a few days – but look out for this compelling crime novel about what could be the perfect lockdown murder!
I also finished listening to ‘Empire of Pain’ by Patrick Radden Keefe. After reading about opium in ‘This is Your Mind on Plants’ by Michael Pollan (highly recommended – review here), this seemed an obvious next book – about the Sackler family and their fortune made in the production of Oxycontin, an opioid that has been responsible for high numbers of addictions and deaths. This has been an eye-opening and shocking read, but one that I’ve been obsessed with! My review will follow on the blog.
I was on a blog tour for ‘White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector’ by Nicholas Royle and so have been immersed in this over the past week. I enjoyed this quirky and engaging non-fiction book about one man’s quest for a full collection of white-spined Picador books. My review is here.
What are you reading now?
I’m kind of between books. I know, right?! This never happens to a reader who always has so many books on the go at once.
I’m returning to two books that I started previously and put down for various reasons – nothing to do with the books themselves, everything to do with the reader! These are ‘A Corruption of Blood’ by Ambrose Parry (a fabulous murder mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh) and ‘Still Life’ by Sarah Winman (a gorgeous slice of historical fiction with echoes of E M Forster’s ‘A Room With A View’).
What do you think you will read next?
I’m really spoilt for choice. I have so many brilliant books on NetGalley that I can’t choose. I am definitely in the mood for crime fiction again, so maybe ‘The Midnight Hour’ by Elly Griffiths, ‘A Line to Kill’ by Anthony Horowitz or ‘Death and Croissants’ by Ian Moore!
I’m also on a blog tour for ‘The Black Dress’ by Deborah Moggach which I’m really looking forward to reading – this will be my first book by Moggach but I’ve heard fabulous things.
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I’ve heard nothing but amazing things for Empire of Pain!
I hope you have some great reads coming up. I have 56 Days to hopefully read soon. It sounds fantastic.
Hope you’re enjoying your current books and your next ones!