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#TopTenTuesday My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List – An Update #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.

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 Petty Reasons You’ve DNF’d a Book. I rarely DNF books and, if I do, I hope it’s never for petty reasons, so this week’s topic wasn’t for me. Instead I’ve revisited a previous post – Books on My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List – to see whether plan turned into reality. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads if they’re still unread.

  1. The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller – Read and reviewed
  2. Pure by Andrew Miller – Still unread
  3. Back Trouble by Clare Chambers – Read and reviewed
  4. A Dry Spell by Clare Chambers – Still unread
  5. All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman – Read but not yet reviewed
  6. The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman – Still unread
  7. Himself by Jess Kidd – Still unread
  8. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler – Still unread
  9. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan – Read and reviewed
  10. Munich Wolf by Rory Clements – Read and reviewed

Actually, I’m quite pleased with this result: 5 read (of which 4 have been reviewed), 5 still unread. Do you ever look back at your To-Read lists?

 

#WWWWednesday – 24th April 2024

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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

Book cover of The Montford Maniac by M.R.C. KasasianThe Montford Maniac by M.R.C. Kasasian (ARC, Canelo) 

Lady Violet Thorn’s awful Aunt Igitha has arrived uninvited and she’s wreaking havoc in the household. When Violet plucks up courage to ask her to leave, Igitha’s chilling threats are soon realised with deadly effect.

In a devastating series of events, a woman is impaled, another is hanged outside Violet’s window, and a wild beast is delivered to her house.

Violet is soon struck by the similarities between these events, and the unsolved murders committed ten years earlier by the sadistic serial killer known as the Montford Maniac. Could he have returned? Is Igitha behind the crimes? Or could there be someone even more terrifying on the prowl? The horrors have only just begun.

Book cover of The Coming Storm by Greg MosseThe Coming Storm by Greg Mosse (eARC, Moonflower Books)

He may have prevented the world from falling into ruin, but Alexandre Lamarque knows his work is not done yet.

There’s still a controlling intelligence out there, pulling together the strands of a new and even more destructive conspiracy.

Battling with personal tragedy on one hand, and the intrusion of new-found celebrity on the other, Alex must re-emerge from self-imposed exile to reunite with Mariam – the woman he loves – and Amaury – his truest friend – to face the fight of their lives.

From the streets of Paris, the lithium mines of southern Mali, and the mighty Aswan Dam, they come up against forces whose intentions are as devious as they are malign. Time is against them, and there’s more at stake than ever.

Recently finished

The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston (Allison & Busby) 

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (Penguin) 

The Household by Stacey Halls (Manilla Press)

What Cathy Will Read Next

How to Make a BombHow To Make A Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson (eARC, Apollo via NetGalley)

If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificial. Everything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in it.

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal life.

Seeking answers, he flies to Cadiz to see Inés, a Spanish academic with whom he shared a connection at the conference, but his journey doesn’t end there. A chance encounter with a wealthy, elderly couple sends him to a house on the south coast of Crete. Is he thinking of leaving his wife, whom he claims he still loves, or is he trying to change a reality that has become impossible to bear? Is he on a quest for a simpler and more authentic existence, or is he utterly self-deluded?

As he tries to make sense of both his personal circumstances and the world surrounding him, he finds himself embarking on a course of action that will push him to the very brink of disaster.