#WWWWednesday – 11th May 2022

WWWWednesdays

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

OutcastOutcast by Chris Ryan (eARC, Zaffre)

After single-handedly intervening in a deadly terrorist attack in Mali, SAS Warrant Officer Jamie ‘Geordie’ Carter is denounced as a lone wolf by jealous superiors.

Now a Regiment outcast, Carter is given a second chance with a deniable mission: locate SAS hero-gone-rogue, David Vann.

Vann had been sent into Afghanistan to train local rebels to fight the Taliban. But he’s since gone silent and expected attacks on key targets have not happened.

Tracking Vann through Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Carter not only discovers the rogue soldier’s involvement in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the Middle East – but an imminent attack that will have deadly consequences the world over . . .


Recently finished

A Ration Book Victory by Jean Fullerton (Corvus)

Requiem in La Rossa by Tom Benjamin (Constable)

Elektra by Jennifer Saint (Wildfire)

Little Drummer by Kjell Ola Dahl, trans. by Don Bartlett (Orenda)

A Taste for Killing by Sarah Hawkswood (Allison & Busby)


What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Witch's TreeThe Witch’s Tree by Elena Collins (eARC, Boldwood Books)

A tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested.

Present day – As a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the Somerset village of Ashcombe promises to be the perfect place to forget her problems, and Selena settles into her new home as spring arrives. But it isn’t long before Selena hears the past whispering to her. Sloe Cottage is keeping secrets which refuse to stay hidden.

1682 – Grace Cotter longs for nothing more than a husband and family of her own. Content enough with her work on the farm, looking after her father, and learning the secrets of her grandmother Bett’s healing hands, nevertheless Grace still hopes for love. But these are dangerous times for dreamers, and rumours and gossip can be deadly. One mis-move and Grace’s fate looks set…

Separated by three hundred years, two women are drawn together by a home bathed in blood and magic. Grace Cotter’s spirit needs to rest, and only Selena can help her now.

#TopTenTuesday Bookish Characters

Top Ten Tuesday

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 Bookish Characters. For example, readers, writers, authors, librarians, professors, etc. My list contains a mixture of most of them.

  1. Reclusive author, Vida Winter in The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  2. Author, bookshop owner and dispenser of ‘literary prescriptions’, Nancy Mitford in The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable
  3. Esme, would-be lexicographer in The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
  4. J.D. Salinger, aspiring author in Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
  5. Temporary library assistant, Aleisha and widower Mukesh in The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
  6. The Brontë sisters, authors and lady detectors in The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis
  7. Viktor, aspiring author and reluctant obituarist in Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
  8. Would-be author, ‘The Literary Innkeeper’ whom Richard Hannay meets in The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  9. Emmett Farmer, apprentice bookbinder in The Binding by Bridget Collins
  10. Mr Penumbra, eponymous owner of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan