Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you’ll read next?
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Currently reading
Ponti by Sharlene Teo (Picador)
It is 2003, and in the sweltering heat of Singapore sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an intense friendship. For Szu it offers an escape from Amisa, her beautiful, cruel mother – once an actress and now the silent occupant of their rusty house. But for Circe, their friendship does the opposite, bringing her one step closer to the fascinating, unknowable Amisa.
Seventeen years later, Circe finds herself adrift and alone. And then a project comes up at work, a remake of the cult seventies horror film series ‘Ponti’, the same series that defined Amisa’s short-lived film career. Suddenly Circe is knocked off balance: by memories of the two women she once knew, by guilt, and by a lost friendship that threatens her conscience…
I received this ages ago as part of a book subscription service that I’ve since cancelled. It was on my list for the 20 Books of Summer 2022 reading challenge, a list I’m still trying to work through. And, yes, I do know it’s now 2023.
Recently finished
A Gift of Poison (Brontë Sisters Mystery #4) by Bella Ellis (Hodder & Stoughton )
The Emperor’s Shield (Legionary #9) by Gordon Doherty
What Cathy (will) Read Next
The Paris Sister (The Three Fry Sisters #2) by Adrienne Chinn (eARC, One More Chapter via NetGalley)
Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love
The Fry sisters enter the Roaring Twenties forever changed by their experiences during the Great War. Now, as each of their lives unfold in different corners of the globe, they come to realise that the most important bond is that of family.
Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals.
Celie’s new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn’t the man who holds her heart.
In Egypt, Jessie’s world is forever changed by a devastating loss.
And back in London – where each of their adventures began – their mother Christina watches as the pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence begin to shatter…with implications for them all…
What Cathy Read Next... 