WWW Wednesday 3 – April – 2019

I have gotten through a few books and wanted to join WWW Wednesday this week!

The Three W’s for WWW Wednesday are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

 

Right now I am reading The Broken Girls by Simone St. James.  I am really enjoying the haunting, suspenseful aspect of the story of a boarding school for “troubled girls.”  The school is set to be restored in present day of 2014 after it closed in 1979.  The story vascillates to the girls residing in the school in 1950 and to a journalist in 2014 who is following the restoration.  In her research she learns of a ghost haunting the premises, bodies are found and she unearths lots of secrets.  This is a hard one to put down and I am excited to finish this one soon!

 

 

 

 

What did you recently finish reading?

 

Before this I read One Day in December by Josie Silver.  This book was okay.  It did have a lot of enjoyable moments and clever passages – I was just annoyed with the whole Three’s Company aspect to the story.  You know, where there is a complete misunderstanding in the beginning of the story that could be cleared up at the start of the story if people just talked?  That kind of annoyance.  But this was a light, quick read that I guessed I enjoyed more than I got annoyed.

 

 

 

 

 

Before that I read Affinity by Sarah Waters.  If you have ever read a book by Sarah Waters, the same basis of the story is present.  We follow our heroine in Victorian London.  Our heroine this time visits the local prison to meet with the inmates for them to talk with a proper lady.  Our heroine becomes infatuated with one of the inmates, a spiritualist.  The story is like other Waters novels, she keeps you on the edge of your seat.  If I were to say anything else I would spoil the book, so I will leave it at this.  

I really enjoyed this book.

 

 

Before that I read Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple.  I was drawn to this book as I loved Where’d You Go, Bernadette and was not disappointed.  One thing Semple has mastered – developing a main character that you laugh and say, “Well hello, hot mess!”  Honestly the main character’s actions, thoughts – all just made me laugh.  I didn’t care much for the middle of the story and was happy when we came back to our hot mess.  Fun read!

 

 

 

 

 

Before that I read Know Your Beholder by Adam Rapp.  And here we have another main character that is a total hot mess.  Although this guy is more like a sad bearded teddy bear that has developed agoraphobia after his wife left him and in the process of making questionable decisions as the landlord of the apartments in his renovated house.  Lots of humor, fun to read.

 

 

 

 

I totally needed a laugh with Know Your Beholder as I was coming off this book.  The Power by Naomi Alderman.  I could not get through this book fast enough.  I was intrigued by the concept of this book of a gender power shift but just hated its application.  Not my thing.  Happy it’s over.

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think you’ll read next?

 

I’m not sure, but from my pile I think I will read Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett.  It seems like it may be a bit of a heavy read but a good read.  From Goodreads:  When Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith.

 

 

 

 

Thank you guys at Taking on a World of Words for hosting WWW Wednesday!