memes – Page 153 – What Cathy Read Next…

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

Only May by Carol Lovekin (eARC, Honno)

I give you fair warning, if you’re planning on lying to me, don’t look me in the eye.

It’s May’s 17th birthday – making the air tingle with a tension she doesn’t fully understand. But she knows her mother and her aunt are being evasive; secrets are being kept.

Like her grandmother before her, May has her own magic: the bees whisper to her as they hover in the garden … the ghosts chatter in the graveyard. And she can’t be fooled by a lie.

She becomes determind to find out what is being kept from her. But when May starts to uncover her own story, she threatens to bring her mother and aunt’s carefully constructed family to the edge of destruction….

Recently finished

Outcast by Chris Ryan (Zaffre)

The Witch’s Tree by Elena Collins (Boldwood Books)

Vincent van Gogh: The Healing Power of Nature (September Publishing)

The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (HarperCollins)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

The White Girl by Tony Birch (eARC, HarperCollins)

Odette Brown has lived her entire life on the fringes of Deane, a small Australian country town. Dark secrets simmer beneath the surface of Deane – secrets that could explain why Odette’s daughter, Lila, left her one-year-old daughter, Sissy, and never came back, or why Sissy has white skin when her family is Aboriginal.

For thirteen years, Odette has quietly raised her granddaughter without drawing notice from welfare authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with cruel eyes and a rigid by-the-book attitude throws the Brown women’s lives off-kilter. It will take all of Odette’s courage and cunning to save Sissy from the authorities, and maybe even lead her to find her daughter.

Bolstered by love, smarts, and the strength of their ancestors, Odette and Sissy are an indomitable force, handling threats to their family and their own identities with grace and ingenuity, while never losing hope for themselves and their future.

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

The rules are simple:

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.
Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Books I Was Excited To Get But Haven’t Read Yet. We’re also invited to share how long since we acquired them – if we dare! Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel – Having loved the previous two books, I pre-ordered this final book in the trilogy back in January 2016 and still haven’t read it. It’s a whopper is my excuse. I also have the audiobook version which is 36 hours long!
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee – Since To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite books, I was thrilled when I spotted a copy of this in my local Oxfam bookshop. It’s been waiting patiently on my bookshelf since April 2016.
Pompeii by Robert Harris – I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Robert Harris and I’m pretty sure this was another charity bookshop find… from August 2017.
Transcription by Kate Atkinson – Like a lot of other people, I loved Life After Life and started looking out for more books by the author, hence my acquisition of this one. The period setting – WW2 and its aftermath – should have had me grabbing this as soon as it arrived in the house in January 2018 but…
Tombland by C. J. Sansom – I’ve read all the previous books in the series and was really excited to get this (in May 2018) but as it’s an audiobook it’s rather slipped under the radar. Out of sight, out of mind?
The Binding by Bridget Collins – How can a book about books and with such a beautiful cover go ignored for so long? (Since January 2019, to be precise.) It beats me.
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood – I always try to read books nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and this was on the longlist for the 2020 prize. Hmm, it needs to come out of hiding.
The Night Raids by Jim Kelly – This is the third book in a great historical crime series. I’ve been meaning to read it since I bought it in January 2020. I’ve included it in my list for the 20 Books of Summer 2022 Reading Challenge so fingers crossed!
Hammer to Fall by John Lawton – I won this in a Readers First giveaway in March 2020 but at the time I hadn’t read the previous book in the series, The Unfortunate Englishman. I was planning to pick it up once I’d read that (which I did as part of last year’s 20 Books of Summer reading challenge).
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce – As a fan of Rachel’s books this should have been irresistible from the moment I purchased it in June 2020 but sadly two years on it’s still waiting.