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What have you recently finished reading?
It’s been a slow reading week as I’ve found it quite hard to concentrate on books – my mind has moved into Christmas mode and I’ve spent a long time online shopping. Black Friday was not helpful with my attempt to stem the book buying…
I finally finished with the readalong of ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier with The Write Reads lovelies. Their cheery chat, wild speculation and hilarious takes on the novel kept me going and I did even grow to quite enjoy this book. I still think the ending is more ‘huh?’ than I’d like, but my review will be up tomorrow.
I also read ‘The Last House on Needless Street’ by Catriona Ward, an ARC that’s due for publication next year. I thought I’d race through this, but it proved darker and murkier than I anticipated. My review will follow once I have wrapped my brain around what I think of it!
What are you reading now?
I’m going to have to stop mentioning Natalie Haynes’ ‘Pandora’s Jar’ as I have been reading it for an eternity. It is very good, but needs my full attention and that has wandered to Christmas!
I’m reading ‘Lie Beside Me’ by Gytha Lodge and loving the mystery so far. I love this series anyway so I knew this would be a win.
What do you think you will read next?
I’m still really excited about ‘Madam’ by Phoebe Wynne – this is definitely at the top of the pile.
I also feel like I need something cheerful after the batch of murderers and abusers I’ve worked my way through in literature form recently. They’re not my usual genres, but I’m thinking ‘The Summer Job’ by Lizzie Dent or ‘A Wedding in the Country’ by Katie Fforde might do nicely – thanks to NetGalley for the ARCs.
As always, thanks to NetGalley, publishers and authors for giving me opportunities to read some fabulous books. Opinions are always entirely my own and not influenced by free copies of books.
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My mind has moved into Christmas mode too. Just too bad the holidays won’t be the same this year. At least books are the one constant. ^_^
It is going to be a strange Christmas, I think, but I’m just looking forward to time off work and some more sleep!
I am definitely in Christmas mode now too!
The Rebecca chat was so much fun, and certainly made the book more enjoyable. Looking forward to reading your review 🙂
Bring on Christmas now!
Looks like you have some intriguing reads on deck, and that you’ve been reading some mostly good ones too!! I finally started reading more at the end of November, so I’m hoping that continues this month. I have lots to read!
Hope you have a fab reading month 😀
I definitely enjoyed Rebecca more because I was reading with you all 💖 And I feel you on the Christmas brain!
I so would not have finished Rebecca without you all 😀
Christmas brain is the real deal. I do hope you get through Pandora’s Jar one day. I am interested to see what you think of it.
I’ll get there eventually – it is good but it takes brain work and I have no brain function at the moment!