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#TopTenTuesday Books On My Spring 2024 To-Read List #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 Books on my Spring 2024 TBR. I’m concentrating on books I plan to – or rather, need to – read in April, a combination of NetGalley ARCs and books for blog tours. I’m also hoping to squeeze in some of the books on the longlist for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the shortlist for which will be announced in May. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads. 

  1. How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson (publishes on 11th April)
  2. Sword of the War God by Tim Hodkinson (publishes on 11th April)
  3. Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson (publishes on 11th April)
  4. Girl Friends by Alex Dahl (publishes on 11th April)
  5. The Household by Stacey Halls (publishes on 11th April)
  6. James by Percival Everett (publishes on, you’ve guessed it, 11th April)
  7. A Plague of Serpents by K.J. Maitland (publishes on 25th April)
  8. A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray (publishes on 25th April)
  9. The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse (publishes on 25th April)
  10. Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain (longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize)

What books are you looking forward to reading in the next few months?

#WWWWednesday – 13th March 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

Hungry GhostsHungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein (Bloomsbury)

The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air . . .

On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm’s shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops – Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith.

When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee’s safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as watchman. But as the mystery of Dalton’s disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and the small community altered forever.

Recently finished

The Story Collector by Iris Costello (Penguin)

Clear by Carys Davies (Granta)

Invader (Agricola #1) by Simon Turney (Head of Zeus)

What Cathy Will Read Next

The Book of SecretsThe Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (eARC, Orion via NetGalley)

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay. The Papal authorities commission lieutenant governor Stefano Bracchi to investigate as subtly as he can.

Meanwhile, to the north of the city, Anna Maria Aldobrandini, Duchess of Cesi, is trapped in an abusive relationship with a much older man she was made to marry when she was only a girl. Her friend, Sulpizia Vitelleschi, is in a similar position, but there is no prospect of divorce or escape. To the south, Cecilia Verzellina fears that, once her jealous son-in-law is released from prison, he will kill her beautiful daughter.

Bracci’s investigation at the Tor di Nona will introduce him to horror, magic and an unthinkable discovery. And he begins to wonder: should certain deeds should remain forever unpunished…