This Week in Books is a weekly round-up hosted by Lypsyy Lost & Found, about what I’ve been reading Now, Then & Next.
A similar meme, WWW Wednesday is run by Taking on a World of Words.
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Currently reading: Blacklands by Belinda Bauer, one of the books I got last week from Barter Books.
to a serial killer
Every day after school, whilst his classmates swap football stickers, twelve-year-old Steven digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. His uncle disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery – but his body has never been found.
Steven’s Nan does not believe her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it’s too late – even if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son.
So Steven takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored psychopath . . .
Yesterday I finished Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, one of my NetGalley books that have been stopping me from reading my TBRs.
This book extols the benefits of getting a full eight hours sleep each night and warns of the dire consequences if you don’t. I shall write more about it in a later post.
What do you think you’ll read next: I do enjoy deciding what to read next but the thing is that I often change my mind. At the moment I’m leaning towards reading The Summer before the War by Helen Simonson. But it could be something else when the time come to decide.
It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season’s splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For the unimaginable is coming – and soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small town goes to war.
Have you read any of these books? Do any of them tempt you?
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I really want to read The Summer Before the War. If you decide to try it, it might encourage me!
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The Summer of War it is then – I shall start it today.
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And I have ordered it from the library!
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I hope you’re enjoying Blacklands, Margaret. Among many things, I think it has a really strong sense of place and atmosphere. I really thought that was done quite effectively.
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Blacklands is very good – and so different from anything else I’ve read!
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I read THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR and like it very much. My link isis
https://idahobluebird50.com/2018/05/02/www-wednesday-may-2-2018/
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That is good to know, Bettylouise – I’m glad you liked it.
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Blacklands sounds really good! And I need the sleep book…
Here’s my link- https://wp.me/p6C2DX-1FP
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I’ll write about the sleep book later this morning.
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I loved Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, which was kind of a fluke, since I hadn’t heard anything about the book before reading it. Now I want to continue my journey with this author, so The Summer Before the War is going on my list.
Enjoy! Here’s MY WWW POST
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I quite liked Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and have read that The Summer before the War is better – we shall see.
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The Summer Before the War sounds really interesting! Hope it turns out well.
Here’s my link:
https://musewithmeblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/www-wednesday-2018-05-02/
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Thanks Ryan – I hope so too.
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Blacklands has been sitting on my TBR for several years now, so I’m hoping you’ll be giving it a glowing review and giving me a push to finally read it!
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I hope you do read it too – I’ll be starting it later today.
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What an excellent lot of books. Black Lands tempts me. Little Dorrit does not. Bit worried about the sleep book as I never get 8 hours sleep, more like 6. And the Summer Before the War sounds really excellent.
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Cath, Little Dorrit is OK, but it’s so long! The sleep book is worrying and I never get 8 hours sleep either and despite all the advice I’ve read and the TV programmes about sleep it’s usually about 6 hours too – although last night I managed 7!
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