On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – As part of the blog tour, I published my review of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, one of the books longlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2020.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Ten Signs You’re A Book Lover. I also joined the blog tour for The Philosopher’s Daughters by Alison Booth sharing my review of this historical novel set in Australia.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…and have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.
Thursday – I published my review of my Buchan of the Month for March, The Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan.
Friday – I shared my review of another of the books on the longlist for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2020, The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay.
Saturday – The first Saturday of the month means #6Degrees of Separation time. My chain took me from Stasiland by Anna Funder to The House by the Loch by Kirsty Wark.
Sunday – A busy week came to an end with my review of Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman as part of the blog tour.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media this week.
New arrivals
Just the one this week…
A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder, trans. by Frank Wynne (advance review copy courtesy of World Editions)
Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, bestselling French author Frédéric and his ten-year-old daughter travel the globe in search of immortality.
What does the man who has everything – fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby – want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off death, examining both legal and illegal research into techniques that could lead to the imminent replacement of man with a post-human species.
Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frédéric crisscrosses the globe to meet the world’s foremost researchers on human longevity, who – from cell rejuvenation and telomere lengthening to 3D-printed organs and digitally stored DNA – reveal their latest discoveries.
With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Top Ten Tuesday: Book I Bought Because…
- Waiting on Wednesday
- My Five Favourite March Reads
- Blog Tour/Book Review: I Am Dust by Louise Beech
What Cathy Read Next... 
I’m reading Hamnet right now… Oh My!
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