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
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville (audiobook)
It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer’s night, she believes him.
But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go. Sailing for six months to the far side of the globe with a child growing inside her, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours.
All her life she has learned to be obliging, to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined and passions she could never express.
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (review copy courtesy of Midas PR)
Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher.
She is now thirty-two and the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student of his. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn’t abuse. It was love. She’s sure of that. But now, in 2017, in the midst of allegations against powerful men, she is being asked to redefine the great love story of her life – her great sexual awakening – as rape.
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
Sold by her mother. Enslaved in Pompeii’s brothel. Determined to survive. Her name is Amara. Welcome to the Wolf Den…
Amara was once a beloved daughter, until her father’s death plunged her family into penury. Now she is a slave in Pompeii’s infamous brothel, owned by a man she despises. Sharp, clever and resourceful, Amara is forced to hide her talents. For as a she-wolf, her only value lies in the desire she can stir in others.
But Amara’s spirit is far from broken.
By day, she walks the streets with her fellow she-wolves, finding comfort in the laughter and dreams they share. For the streets of Pompeii are alive with opportunity. Out here, even the lowest slave can secure a reversal in fortune. Amara has learnt that everything in this city has its price. But how much is her freedom going to cost her?
Recently finished
Links from the titles will take you to my review.
A Ration Book Daughter (East End Ration #5) by Jean Fullerton
A Hundred Million Years and a Day by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, translated by Sam Taylor
The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl, translated by Don Bartlett
What Cathy (will) Read Next
The Distant Dead (The Detective’s Daughter #8) by Lesley Thomson (eARC, courtesy of Head of Zeus via NetGalley)
London, 1940. A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist Aleck Northcote proves she was strangled and placed at the scene. But Northcote himself has something to hide. And when his past catches up with him, he too is murdered.
Tewkesbury, 2020. Beneath the vast stone arches of Tewkesbury Abbey, a man has been fatally stabbed. He is Roddy March, an investigative journalist for a podcast series uncovering miscarriages of justice. He was looking into the murder of police pathologist Dr Aleck Northcote – and was certain he had uncovered Northcote’s real killer.
Stella Darnell used to run a detective agency alongside her cleaning business. She’s moved to Tewkesbury to escape from death, not to court it – but Roddy died in her arms, and Stella is someone impelled to root out evil when she finds it. Now she is determined to hunt down Roddy’s killer – but then she finds another body…
All of the books you are reading sound really interesting. A Room Made of Leaves has been on my TBR for a while (mostly because it has a great cover, I think!), but maybe I’ll do the same as you and listen to the audiobook instead!
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You are absolutely ruining my TBR!! I find that I don’t care. I have added A Room Full of Leaves (I cannot resist a woman taking control of her destiny stories) and The Distant Dead. I want to add The Ration Book Daughter book one to the list – is that Pocketful of Dreams?
You always have the best WWW.
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Thanks, and I only feel slightly guilty about adding to your TBR 😁. Yes the first one in the Ration Book series was originally titled Pocketful of Dreams but was later published as A Ration Book Dream to align with the other titles. It’s one I’m hoping to get around to reading myself one day.
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Tempting titles! I am curious about A Ration Book Daughter. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
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It’s a series I’m very fond of and if you have a hankering for an insight into what life was like in WW2 London it’s one I can heartily recommend.
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I am in a book club that mostly reads books in translation, and I really appreciate that you have some of those on your list. I’ve definitely added The Assistant and A Hundred Million Years and a Day. Hope you have a great week! My WWW: https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/www-wednesdays-may-12-2021/
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What an interesting theme for a book club! I hope you enjoy The Assistant and/or A Hundred MIllion Years and a Day if you get around to reading them.
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You’ve got some great books on here! My Dark Vanessa and The Wolf Den are both on my tbr.
Here’s my WWW: https://catherineellenbooks.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/www-wednesday-12-may/
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