#TopTenTuesday Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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This week’s topic is Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon. Oh my goodness, how do I narrow it down to just ten? Rather than pick out some of my oldest unread books (that would be way too embarrassing), I’m focusing on books I need to – as well as want to – read soon. So my ten comprise the seven books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction that I haven’t yet read, two books that publish next month and my book club’s pick for May. I can get through those, can’t I? Hollow laughs all round…

  1. For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on my Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie
  2. Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson
  3. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
  4. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
  5. Mister Timeless Blyth by Alan Spence
  6. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
  7. Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
  8. Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
  9. The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley 
  10. The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Which books from your TBR pile do you hope to read soon?

#EarthDay24 – Land Marks: A Novel by Maryann Lesert @shewritespress

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Today is Earth Day. First held in 1970 by Earthday.org it’s described as ‘the largest civic event on Earth, activating billions across 192 countries to safeguard our planet and fight for a brighter future’. It seems appropriate, therefore, to feature a novel which has environmental activism at its heart.

Land Marks by Maryann Lesert was published by She Writes Press on 16th April 2024. It’s described as ‘suspenseful, poignant, and galvanizing’ and ‘a tribute to the waterways that connect us, the land that sustains us, and the moments that inspire us to rise up together to say, “No more!”

About the Book

Book cover of Land Marks: A Novel by Maryann Lesert

Once you’ve experienced the devastation of fracking, nothing but stopping it makes sense. After a year of well site visits and protests, four college student activists become determined to protect the people and the places they love.

In the river-crossed northwoods of Michigan, Kate, Brett, Sonya, and Mark, mentored by their former professor Rebecca, keep watch as North American Energy (NorA) connects a corridor of frack well sites deep in the state forests. When NorA expands in unexpected directions and their awful, bigger plan becomes clear, the action begins.

As grassroots activists gather and prepare to stop NorA’s dangerous superfrac, stresses other than the fracturing of the bedrock appear. Sonya is arrested, Rebecca reveals her hidden past, and the one person who knows both women’s stories arrives in camp. Love and solidarity want to win, even if most showdowns with Big Oil don’t end well for those who take a stand.

Format: Paperback (288 pages) Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 16th April 2024 Genre: Contemporary Fiction

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About the Author

Author Maryann Lesert

Maryann Lesert writes about people and place in equal measure. Her first novel, Base Ten (Feminist Press, 2009) followed an astrophysicist’s quest for self among Lake Michigan’s forested dunes and the stars. Her current novel, Land Marks, is based on two years of boots-on-well-sites research on fracking in the state forests. Her plays have been published by New Issues (2008) and in Smith & Kraus’s Best Ten Minute series. Her articles have appeared in EcoWatch and In These Times, and she is a regular presenter on art and activism. Maryann lives in west Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and writes by the big lake. (Photo/bio: Goodreads author page)

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