On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I shared an update on my progress with the Bookbloggers 2021 Fiction Reading Challenge hosted by Lynne at Fictionophile.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences.
Wednesday – WWW Wednesday is the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to have a good nose around what others are reading.
Thursday – I shared my review of crime mystery set in Bologna, The Hunting Season (Daniel Leicester #2) by Tom Benjamin as part of the blog tour.
Saturday – As part of the blog tour, I published my review of Pathfinders by Cecil Lewis, one of the latest additions to the Imperial War Museum’s terrific ‘Wartime Classics’ series.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
I dropped off some unwanted books at my local Oxfam bookshop so of course this happened. I blame their one way system that took me past some bargains I just couldn’t resist.
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him.
Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
This is Britain as you’ve never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years.
They’re each looking for something – a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope…
I also joined a Waterstones online event with Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half, the ticket for which included a copy of the book. Okay, I could have purchased a ticket without the book but what would have been the joy in that?
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Down the TBR Hole #15
- Blog Tour/Book Review: This Other Island by Steffanie Edward
- Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles – Do Quote Me
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Love and Miss Harris by Peter Maughan
- Book Review: The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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