WWW Wednesday - 9 February 2022

 

The Three Ws are:

What did you recently finish reading?

What are you currently reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Recently Finished : 

Death in Disguise by Emma Davies -- This was the "currently reading" for last week's WWW Wednesday. I couldn't bring myself to put it down for more than a couple of hours and finished within 24 hours of picking it up. It's that good and then some, if that's even possible.  I used it for the most recent Book Beginnings & Friday 56 tease and ramble.

Paula Quinn's Echoes in Time series -- I flew through the trio over the weekend. I don't care what other reviewers might say, these need to be read in order and should be read together as it's just one really long fabulous story broken into three separate books. It was this week's I'll Sleep When I've Read... pick.

Under Skeleton Lock & Key by Gigi Pandian -- One of the good things about it being the slow season in hotel land is that I get a lot of time to get completely carried away by really good books ... like this one which is set to be published mid-March. It was yesterday's Tuesday Intros & Teaser Tuesday book and I'm already looking forward to the next in the series.

Currently Reading:

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb

Description from SharynMcCrumb.com:

From the chestnut blight of the 1930's to industrial water pollution today, this novel looks at environmental issues and the issue of environmental responsibility. In this novel, sorrow comes to the mountain community in the guise of a murder/suicide on a remote farm and via a polluted river that brings death into the valley. Nora Bonesteel, with her graveyard quilt and her herbal remedies, does what she can to protect the ordinary folk from tragedy. This is a wonderful novel to trace the continuance of Celtic heritage and folkways into America's eastern mountains, which were settled by Britain's highlanders.

After several failed attempts at books I figured I would read next, I decided to return to my Ballads. This is one of my favorites of the ones I have already read as it introduces the inestimable Nora Bonesteel. I expect it to be this week's Book Beginnings & Friday 56.

What's Next?

I'm 99.999% sure that Olivia Atwater's Half a Soul will be next. After that? I could tackle more of my NetGalley shelf with either Front Page Murder by Joyce St Anthony or If You Ask Me by Libby Hubscher. They're both due out early March so there really isn't a big rush ... and I vaguely recall agreeing to do a blog blitz for the Hubscher so that may wait. I may tackle one of the piles of "actual" books I have scattered about my house instead.