On What Cathy Read Next last week
Tuesday – This week’s topic was a freebie on an educational theme and (rather predictably) I went with Books Set in Schools.
Wednesday – I published my review of historical crime mystery Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards as part of the blog tour. WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I published my wrap-up for the 20 Books of Summer 2022 reading challenge. Spoiler alert: It’s a story of failure.
Friday – I chose my Five Favourite August Reads.
Saturday – The first Saturday on the month means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation. My bookish chain took me from The Quiet People by Paul Cleave to The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anne-Marie Crowhurst.
New arrivals
Sleep When You’re Dead by Jude O’Reilly (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Elite assassin and spy-for-hire Michael North is the man you call when there’s nothing left to lose. His tradecraft is unparalleled, he executes every mission with determination, skill and a certain amount of flair. There’s just one problem: the bullet lodged in his brain. If it moves, he will die – and so will the mission.
Now North’s been sent to infiltrate a doomsday cult on the Isle of Skye. Their leader is planning a terrorist attack on the mainland, and it’s North’s job to stop him. Together with teen hacker FangFang – the only person in the world he cares about – North must face down the forces of evil on behalf of his country.
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie (Proof copy courtesy of Bloomsbury via Readers First)
Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people.
Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan’s dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.
Zahra and Maryam. In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it. Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Book Review/Blog Tour: Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson
- Book Review: At the Breakfast Table by Defne Suman
- Guest Post: The Man From Mittelwerk by M. Z. Urlocker
- Guest Post: Richard Eager: A Pilot’s Story by Barbara Evans Kinnear
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