On What Cathy Read Next last week
Tuesday – I shared my review of Tiny Pieces of Enid by Tim Ewins. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Things that get in the way of reading.
Wednesday – As always 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.
Friday – I published my review of historical novel, The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry.
New arrivals
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black (eARC,
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the trials and tribulations of life?
Jessica Miller is fascinated by the somewhat perplexing tendency of humans to end their own lives, but she secretly believes such acts may not be that bad after all. Or at least, she did.
Jessica is coming to terms with her own relationships, and reflecting on what it means to be queer, when a single event throws everything she once believed into doubt. Can she still defend the act?
The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan (Tuskar Rock)
‘When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology …’
It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a ‘special appointment’.
Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
- Book Review: Ancestry by Simon Mawer
- Book Review: The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson
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