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To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
I am currently reading two books
The Medea Complex by Rachel Florence Roberts
I’ve posted quite a lot about this book over the last couple of days so by way of an update I’m still loving it!
And Love Nina by Nina Stibbe
Blurb
In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family. There’s a cat nobody likes, a visiting dog called Ted Hughes (Ted for short) and suppertime visits from a local playwright. Not to mention the two boys, their favourite football teams, and rude words, a very broad-minded mother and assorted nice chairs. From the mystery of the unpaid milk bill and the avoidance of nuclear war to mealtime discussions on pie filler, the greats of English literature, swearing in German and sexually transmitted diseases, Love, Nina is a wonderful celebration of bad food, good company and the relative merits of Thomas Hardy and Enid Blyton. Netgalley
This book of letters is easy to dip in and out of so I am expanding my ability to read two books at once! Love Nina was published on 7 November by Penguin Books
Link to Love Nina Amazon UK
I have just finished Imago by Celina Grace the third in the Kate Redman series.
Click on the book cover to read my review
Next in line for a read is Water’s Edge by Jane Riddell
When Madalena invites her four children to Switzerland for a family gathering, she isn’t prepared for the excess baggage of their lives they bring along – secrets they are compelled to keep and those that must be divulged; the compromises they make, and, ultimately, what can and can’t be resolved – for Madalena, too, has things about her past that she would prefer not to reveal.
Set against a backdrop of mountains and lakes, Water’s Edge is a tapestry of love, lies and family. Amazon
Link to Water’s Edge Amazon UK
Related articles
- Book review: Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, By Nina Stibbe (independent.co.uk)
- WWW Wednesdays: November 13 (readerlymusings.com)
Looks like you’ve got a very different mix of books to read. I hope you continue to enjoy them. Happy Reading 🙂
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Thank you Chrissi, all good so far…. this really has been a very good book year for me 🙂
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Love, Nina looks very good. THANKS for sharing, and ENJOY your reading week.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
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Thank you Elizabeth, I’m off to look at what you have for the week ahead!
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Ooohhh–Love, Nina looks good–another book told through letters!
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I found it a little hard to grasp at first as the family relationships weren’t very clear (there is no background just letters) but I’m enjoying it more now I’ve figured out who everyone is.
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Like my fellow bloggers, Love, Nina looks promising! ~Deanna
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I found it quite hard to start with as there is no background to who she is referring to in the family but it is definitely getting better.
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I occasionally have a couple of books going. I usually stop reading the one, though, because one I’ve been waiting on came out.
Here is mine: http://wp.me/p3o4kN-m3
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I’m a bit pathetic and usually can only manage one at a time, I’m in training at the moment 😉
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I don’t think I could actively read more than one book. I have suffered from Mom Brain long before having kids and it only gets worse. lol
Good luck to you! I am sure you can do it.
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Ah but then they grow up and you have more time to read again…. 🙂
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The last book I read based on letters was so good. I think I should check out Love, Nina too. Enjoy your books! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Water’s Edge sound like my kind of book. Thanks for the nominate of my ireadnovels.wordpress.com on your one lovely Blog award.
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You are very welcome. I’m looking forward to reading it 🙂
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