This Week in Books is a feature hosted by Lipsy at Lipsyy Lost and Found that allows bloggers to share:
- What they’ve recently finished reading
- What they are currently reading
- What they are planning to read next
I’ve just finished reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, a novel which I absolutely adored:
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.
Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.
One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.
Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?
My current read is The Silent Kookaburra by Liza Perrat:
All eleven-year-old Tanya Randall wants is a happy family. But Mum does nothing besides housework, Dad’s always down the pub and Nanna Purvis moans at everyone except her dog. Then Shelley arrives –– the miracle baby who fuses the Randall family in love for their little gumnut blossom.
Tanya’s life gets even better when she meets an uncle she didn’t know she had. He tells her she’s beautiful and could be a model. Her family refuses to talk about him. But that’s okay, it’s their little secret.
Then one blistering summer day tragedy strikes, and the surrounding mystery and suspicion tear apart this fragile family web.
Embracing the social changes of 1970s Australia, against a backdrop of native fauna and flora, The Silent Kookaburra is a haunting exploration of the blessings, curses and tyranny of memory.
Unsettling psychological suspense blending the intensity of Wally Lamb with the atmosphere of Peter James, this story will get under your skin.
Once I’ve finished The Silent Kookaburra, I’m planning to read Child Taken by Darren Young:
One hot summer’s day, two-year-old Jessica Preston disappears from the beach. The police are convinced she drowned, but Sandra Preston won’t give up hope that her daughter is still alive.
How can she?
Twenty years later, another child goes missing, and Sandra is approached by a young journalist who raises questions about what really happened to Jessica Preston all those years ago. But when the journalist discovers someone with an explosive secret, it threatens not only to reveal what’s been covered up for so long, but puts both their lives in danger.
What are you reading this week?
Hope you’re enjoying The Silent Kookaburra.
I’m looking forward to Child Taken as I’m hearing a lot of good things about it!
Happy reading, Jo!
I am enjoying it, and I can’t wait to see what happens! I think that Child Taken will be excellent too 😊
I’ve got Eleanor Oliphant on my TBR and hope to start reading it tomorrow, I’ve heard so many great things about it. I’m really interested in Child Taken – it sounds excelled and I’m definitely going to be looking out for a copy of that. Hope you enjoy all your reading this week 🙂
Here’s my week in books: https://rathertoofondofbooks.com/2017/05/10/www-wednesday-10-may-what-are-you-reading-today/
Eleanor Oliphant is brilliant! I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. And I’m really looking forward to Child Taken 😊
Curious about Eleanor… what genre is it¿
I guess literary / contemporary fiction. I was reminded a little of Gavin Extence’s work if you’ve read anything by him? It is great though – I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did.
No I hacen’t! Ill check it out then!
Definitely worth it 😄