The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
My Current Read :
Title: The Woman Who Came Back to Life
Author: Beth Miller
Publication: 5 January 2022
Format: Kindle eArc via NetGalley
I should have known just from the cover that this was going to be a multiple-Kleenex kind of book.
I also should have known not to venture into such a thing when I'm already more than a bit on the feeble side emotionally .... but I'm doing it anyway .... and I'm almost finished with it, so we'll see if it completely breaks me before I can move on to something light and refreshing like murder.
It's very much a story of what and who to let go of -- or hold on to with all your might.
It's a tricky conundrum at times -- especially when family is involved.
It's told by three characters: Pearl, the daughter she gave up for adoption, and the father she was estranged from for thirty years. Pearl's father, Francis, has passed and his bits are all done via journals he had left for Pearl. As it turns out, he wasn't necessarily as estranged as she had thought. They spanned from 1981 to 2018 and were probably my favorite part of the entire book.
It feels like a slow read. Sometimes dreadfully so. Somehow, though, it's also a deceptively quick read. It can feel like it's dragging and going nowhere but then, before you know it, you're almost finished. Maybe it's just me.
I had no idea what to do with these thoughts, so I employed my usual strategy for dealing with difficult things, and pushed them to the back of my mind, pending a later, unspecified time in which I would have the mental capacity to deal with it.
Recently Finished :
Dunmoor was last week's Tuesday Intros/Teaser Tuesday and the "currently reading" from last week's WWW Wednesday. I finished it Wednesday afternoon and it was even more amazingly eerie by the time I finished. I eagerly await the sequel!
I do so adore Kristen Painter's Nocturne Falls series and this is the first in a spin-off mystery series that I may end up loving even more! It was this past Book Beginnings/Friday56 pick.
My Fine Fellow was yesterday's Tuesday Intros/Teaser Tuesday book and was a fun and pretty fast YA read. I may or may not have binge-watched a lot of Food Network competition shows after it was finished.
What's Next :
I'm really rather determined to knock out the first in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series so I can then feel free to binge the tv series Shetland on BritBox. I already know that there are several changes, but I also know that Cleeves is happy with them so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I actually started the book .... then the Netgalley guilt got to me after a couple of pages .... so I'm planning to dive back in as soon as The Woman Who Came Back to Life is finished.
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