On the blog last week
Tuesday – My twist on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books Featuring Handwritten Documents. I also shared my review of A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie, the book chosen for me in the latest Classics Club spin and also book 3 of my 20 Books of Summer.
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.
Saturday – I joined other gardeners for #SixonSaturday sharing six things from my garden this week.
New on my shelves
Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (Proof copy courtesy of Penguin and Women’s Prize)
Amidst the vast, sunlit cornfields of Portugal, Maria Lucilia receives a letter. The note is from her husband, Benedito da Silva, who is in exile – serving a punishing seven-year sentence as a fisherman with the White Fleet. But Bene cannot read or write.
In the icy port town of St John’s, Newfoundland, another woman welcomes Bene into her life and composes a letter to a stranger across the sea. Maria Alvares, a widowed shopkeeper, knows the uneasy power she wields – the other woman, lending a voice for the man she loves to reach the wife he left behind.
Though thousands of miles stand between them, the two Marias are drawn irresistibly to know each other. Slowly, in the margins and footnotes of the letters, a deep connection emerges: fears, hopes, and secrets neither woman has spoken aloud. What grows between them has the power to sustain – or undo – them both.
What I’m currently reading
I’ve nearly finished Country People by Daniel Mason and Deception by Alan Parks, both from my NetGalley shelf and out next month. And I’m reading an ARC of Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki, translated by Jesse Kirkwood. All three are on my list for 20 Books of Summer. Now I just need to get up to date with writing reviews…
Look out for…
- Book Review: Paper Sisters by Rachel Canwell
- Book Review: Dwell by Rue Baldry
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