On What Cathy Read Next last week
Blog posts
Monday – I shared my review of Dear Child by Romy Hausmann as part of the blog tour.
Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Book Titles That Are Quotations
Wednesday – It wouldn’t be “hump day” without WWW Wednesday, the opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next…as well as have a good nose around to see what other bloggers are reading.
Thursday – I shared my review of Green Hands by Barbara Whitton as part of the blog tour.
Friday – I joined the blog tour for Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor, sharing my review.
Saturday – For this month’s 6 Degrees of Separation I created a chain of books from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James to Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie.
As always, thanks to everyone who has liked, commented on or so shared my blog posts on social media.
New arrivals
A Conspiracy of Silence (DI Gillian Marsh #5) by Anna Legat (eARC, courtesy of Headline via NetGalley)
When a body is found in the grounds of a prestigious Wiltshire private school, DI Gillian Marsh takes on the case. The young groundsman, Bradley Watson, has been shot dead, pierced through the heart with an arrow.
As the investigation gathers pace, DI Marsh is frustrated to find the Whalehurst staff and students united in silence. This scandal must not taint their reputation. But when Gillian discovers pictures of missing Whalehurst pupil, fifteen-year-old Rachel Snyder, on Bradley’s dead body – photos taken on the night she disappeared, and he was murdered – the link between the two is undeniable.
But what is Whalehurst refusing to reveal? And does Gillian have what it takes to bring about justice?
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue (eARC, courtesy of Canongate via NetGalley)
“We should have known the end was near.”
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company.
Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made – and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle would last for decades and come at a steep price.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Autumn Vibes
- Blog Tour/Book Review: Those Who Know by Alis Hawkins
- Waiting on Wednesday
- Book Review: The Magic Walking Stick by John Buchan
- My Five Favourite September Reads
- Book Review: This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik
