On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I published my review of The Push by Ashley Audrain.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Most Anticipated 2021 Releases.
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…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading. I also published my review of Elmet by Fiona Mozley.
Thursday – I signed up for When Are You Reading? 2021 Challenge.
Friday – I shared my review of Connectedness (Identity Detective #2) by Sandra Danby.
Saturday – I published my review of WW2 historical thriller Last Flight to Stalingrad by Graham Hurley as part of the blog tour.
Sunday – I shared my review of Children’s Fate (Meonbridge Chronicles #4) by Carolyn Hughes as part of the blog tour.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
Mint by S. R. Wilsher (eARC, courtesy of the author and Rachel’s Random Resources)
It’s the summer of 1976, and after nine years in prison, James Minter is home to bury his mother. A history of depression and a series of personal issues has seen her death ruled as suicide. His refusal to accept that conclusion means he must confront his violent stepfather, deal with the gangster who wants his mother’s shop and, of course, face the family of the boy he killed.
But will his search for the truth in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small seaside town, and the unpicking of the peculiar relationship his mother had with the Stonemason next door, put his own life in danger?
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (eARC, courtesy of Faber & Faber via NetGalley)
Lunchtime, a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages – after all, everything’s been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. In it were five little children. Atomised.
Who were they? What future did they lose? Running another reel, another version of time, Perpetual Light is the rest of the twentieth century as the five children’s destinies were extended. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs, disasters; of second chances and redemption, all amidst the bustling, humming multitudes of London.
Five lives and stories told in beams of light, not ends.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- My Five Favourite December Reads
- Top Ten Tuesday
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Book Review: Artist, Lover, Soldier, Muse by Arthur D. Hittner
- Blog Tour/Book Review: The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Game of the Gods by Paolo Maurensig
