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
A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.
I did not stick to the plan last week! I finished The Island by Victoria Hislop, and then DNFd a book that I’d been looking forward to.
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother’s past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more.
Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone’s throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga – Greece’s former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion.
She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip…
I’m currently reading Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive’s Tour of the Bookshops of Britain by Robin Ince. This is an absolutely glorious tour of Britain’s independent bookshops, and if you even wanted a book to make you feel better about your TBR and book purchasing habits, this one is for you!
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops in the UK, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate.
Packed with witty anecdotes and tall tales, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books – and also tries to find out just why he can never have enough of them.
It is the story of an addiction and a romance, and also of an occasional points failure just outside Oxenholme.
I’m not sure what to read next. Maybe Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman – a book recommended to me by a friend.
An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time
Andre Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.
And that’s my week in books! What are you reading this week? Let me know in the comments! 😎
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But what was the DNF, Jo?! 🙄😂
🤣 The Heroines by Laura Shepperson. It should have been perfect for me, but I just didn’t get on with it 🤷🏻♀️
I love the sound of Bibliomaniac, but also want to know what you DNF’d! x
😂 It was The Heroines by Laura Shepperson. I love Greek myths and the retellings of those tales, but just didn’t get on with this one.
Bibliomaniac is excellent, although I now want to visit all the book shops! x