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.
A weekend away in Northumberland meant a little less time for reading. I enjoyed Exiles by Jane Harper, although everyone who warned me that it was a little slower in pace than her previous novels was entirely correct.
A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night.
Her baby lies alone in the pram, waiting for a return that never comes.
A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather to welcome a new addition to the family.
Joining the celebrations on a rare break from work is federal investigator Aaron Falk, who begins to suspect that all is not as it seems.
As he looks into Kim’s case, long-held secrets and resentments begin to come to the fore, secrets that show that her community is not as close as it appears.
Falk will have to tread carefully if he is to expose the dark fractures at its heart, but sometimes it takes an outsider to get to the truth…
I’m currently reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles.
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate New York City jazz bar trying to stretch three dollars as far as it will go.
But a chance encounter with the handsome banker at the next table changes everything, opening the door to the upper echelons of New York society and a glittering new social circle. Plunged into a dizzy world of cocktail parties, sprawling mansions and glamorous magazine offices, Katey soon learns that there are rules to play by and riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat…
My next read might be Furies – a collection of short stories by various authors.
BANSHEE. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.
For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for 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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I always feel like Harper was just never able to get back to the level of her first Aaron Falk book.
The Dry was superb, wasn’t it?
Hope you enjoyed Northumberland Jo, it’s such a beautiful place! x
It was great, thank you! And yes – such a beautiful part of the country x
Hope you had a lovely time in Northumberland, Jo. I love it there and am looking forward to going back in September.
I did, thank you! It’s such a lovely part of the country – my OH and I have been going up there once a year for the last few years, and I always look forward to going back x
It really is x