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
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri (Manilla Press via Readers First)
This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection.
A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life in a tiny Greek Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy. Their life goes up in flames in a single day when one man starts a fire out of greed and indifference. Many are killed, homes are destroyed, and the region’s natural beauty wiped out.
In the wake of the fire, Chara bears deep scars across her back and arms. Tasso is frozen in trauma, devastated that he wasn’t there when his family most needed him. And Irini is crippled by guilt at her part in the fate of the man who started the fire.
But this family has survived, and slowly green shoots of hope and renewal will grow from the smouldering ruins of devastation.
Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle (eARC, Cheyne Walk via NetGalley)
The characters in Glenn Haybittle’s first collection of short stories are all caught in moments of life that bring about a revelation of identity.
A young woman who, after the war, catches sight of the guard who knocked to the ground her blind grandfather on the platform at Auschwitz. The backstory of the man accused of murdering Martin Luther King. The experience of a young girl on Kristallnacht and the subsequent tragic upheavals in her life. A dance teacher accused of sexually abusing one of his young students. A man constrained to return to his mother and look after her while she goes through dementia. A CIA operative grooming a patsy to take the blame for an assassination.
Recently finished
Night Train to Marrakech (Daughters of War #3) by Dinah Jefferies (HarperCollins)
North Woods by Daniel Mason (John Murray Press)
A Day of Reckoning (A Time for Swords #3) by Matthew Harffy (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
The Merchant’s Dilemma by Carolyn Hughes (eARC, Riverdown Books)
What Cathy (will) Read Next
In Two Minds (Teifi Valley Coroner #2) by Alis Hawkins (Dome Press)
Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the acting coroner of Teifi Valley with solicitor’s clerk John Davies as his assistant.
When a faceless body is found on an isolated beach, Harry must lead the inquest. But his dogged pursuit of the truth begins to ruffle feathers. Especially when he decided to work alongside a local doctor with a dubious reputation and experimental theories considered radical and dangerous.
Refusing to accept easy answers might not only jeopardise Harry’s chance to be elected coroner permnantly but could, it seems implicate his own family in a crime.
What Cathy Read Next... 
Hi Cathy
we just finished reading Geling Yan (Yan Ge Ling) “The Secret Talker”, a book we liked very much. Like the protagonist is spellbound by the texting of her unknown lover we could not stop reading this short novel. At the same time we read by Sally Magnusson “The Sealwoman’s Gift”. We blogged about it
We read also by Audrey Niffenegger “Her Fearful Symmetry” which we found partly boring. The other book we finished last week: Andrew Miller “Pure”. We found this novel quite entertaining, a easy kind of history lesson about the late 18th c.
Happy reading
The Fab Four of Cley
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I’ve not read anything by Sally Magunsson although I have The Ninth Child in my TBR pile and Andrew Miller’s novel is on my wishlist.
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