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On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford.

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Reasons Why I Love Reading. I had no problem coming up with ideas for this one!

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 – Courtesy of September Books, I featured a (UK only) giveaway with a chance to win a paperback copy of The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris. Still time to enter…

Friday – I published my review of Those I Have Lost by Sharon Maas as part of the blog tour. 

Saturday – I shared my review of my latest audiobook listen, A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende. 

As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.

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New arrivals

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (eARC, courtesy of Harper Collins via NetGalley)

Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.

Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.

When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. 

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Blog Tour/Book Review: For Lord and Land (The Bernicia Chronicles #8) by Matthew Harffy
• Blog Tour/Book Review: The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
• Top Ten Tuesday
• WWW Wednesday
• Book Review: Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Kyiv by Graham Hurley

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Blog posts

Monday – I published my review of The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited by Margaret Jull Costa.

Tuesday –  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2021.

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. I also shared an extract from The Lady in the Veil by Allie Cresswell and published my review of The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi as part of the blog tour.

Thursday – I shared my Five Favourite June 2021 Reads. 

Friday – I published my review of This Shining Life by Harriet Kline as part of the blog tour. 

Saturday – I took part in this month’s #6Degrees of Separation meme creating a chain of books starting from Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss.

As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or shared my blog posts on social media.

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New arrivals

Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks (eARC, courtesy of Hutchinson via NetGalley)

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers.

1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.

1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for the first time.

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair, minding their children, and selling them drugs.

Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences.

A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom – and their lives. 

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On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

• Book Review: Business as Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford
• Top Ten Tuesday
• WWW Wednesday
• Blog Tour/Book Review: Those I Have Lost by Sharon Maas
• Book Review: Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
• Audiobook Review: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende