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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 Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby a book which I came across in excerpt format when I stumbled across the author’s blog. Ignoring Gravity is about to be published on 21 November 2014.
Blurb
Rose Haldane is confident about her identity. She pulls the same face as her grandfather when she has to do something she doesn’t want to do, she knows her DNA is the same as his. Except it isn’t: because Rose is adopted and doesn’t know it.
‘Ignoring Gravity’ connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. Finding her mother’s lost diaries, Rose begins to understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family, why she feels so different from her sister Lily. Then just when she thinks there can’t be any more secrets…
This is the first in a series of novels about Rose Haldane, identity detective. Amazon
I recently finished the thought-provoking The Perfect Mother by Nina Darnton which is based upon Emma, an American girl who while studying in Spain is a suspect in the murder of a local boy. Narrated by Jennifer, her mother, this book skilfully describes how she has to realign her image of her daughter to fit the facts of the case. My review will follow shortly.
Next I am going to read The Burning Girl by Lisa Unger ,the second in the three part set of novellas by this author which started with The Whispers.
Blurb
Ten years after Eloise Montgomery discovers her psychic abilities, she is a full-fledged working psychic, with a partner and a business. Now, in The Burning Girl, she’s discovering some disturbing things: secrets about her genealogy that are, perhaps, best left in the past; that her granddaughter Finley has powers of her own; and that not all of Eloise’s visitors actually want to be helped. Some of them are just looking for trouble…Goodreads
What are you reading this week?
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All three of your books look so good! 😀 I hope you have a great week of reading.
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Thank you Chrissi – You too 🙂
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Loving the sound of The Burning Girl! Great selection again!
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Thank you Lipsyy 🙂
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I like the sound of Ignoring Gravity. It’d be interesting to see if the author is able to carry through on the family secrets hook.
I’m reading two books, a modern day romance and a young adult supernatural, at the same time which is pretty neat. Never done that before. The modern day romance is light reading. The YA is intriguing. I won’t be able to judge it til I reach the end.
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Yes I’m unsure where this will lead to but the current family secret is engrossing. I’m rubbish at managing two books at the same time, I can just about cope with a fiction and non-fiction but apart from that I have to read one at a time!
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Looking forward to your review of The Perfect Mother – and a great selection of books, as always.
I’ve just finished reading Dominion by CJ Sansom (for the book club tonight), am in the middle of Robert Galbraith’s ‘The Silkworm’ (yes, I finally succumbed to the curiosity of seeing how JK Rowling handles crime fiction, but I haven’t read the first) and will be reading Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You next. I downloaded it a while ago, before all the hoopla around it started, before it became trendy, but I never got around to reading it.
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Thank you Marina – The Cuckoo’s Calling is still sat on my TBR shelf and I’ll be interested to see your views on Everything I Never Told You, heard so much about it but I’m a bit anti-hype so… The Perfect Mother review should be up fairly soon.
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Cleo – Really interesting books you have there! And I’m very keen to see what you thought of The Perfect Mother. Look forward to your reviews!
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Thank you Margot – Quite a varied selection this week from me. The Perfect Mother review will be posted very soon once I can decide how best to do it – on version 3 at the moment!
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I’m interested to hear your full thoughts on The Perfect Mother – I followed the Amanda Knox case and this seems to similar!
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It is definitely from the same premise as that trial but with a different slant so it isn’t a ‘rip-off’ but the similarities can’t be avoided. The book has fascinated me and I’m still trying to order my thoughts enough to write a coherent review.
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I think this may be the first time ever that I’m not really tempted by any of your selections, though I’m glad you’re enjoying them. Thank you…and keep up the good work! 😉
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Haha will have to do much better next week!
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Second person I’ve seen that’s going to read The Perfect Mother… I really might have to add it to my To-Read list. 🙂
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I recommend you add this one to the TBR – it is one of the best fiction books which has taken a well-known incident and managed to create a book that makes you think.
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I will definitely be adding it then! 🙂
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The Perfect Mother sounds excellent — there was another novel loosely based on the Knox case called Cartwheel — did you read that? It was very well done.
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I have it on my wishlist but don’t have a copy yet, having read and enjoyed this one I feel I must buy it now.
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What intriguing books!
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Thank you 🙂
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I do want to read The Perfect Mother. It sounds so fascinating. I can’t even imagine.
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I recommend it, a fantastic premise which has been taken in the direction of the relationship between a mother and daughter – I highly recommend it.
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I’m dying to get to The Perfect Mother but I’ve so many overdue reviews to do…although I’m dying to see what you’ll make of it…here are mine
https://crimeworm.WordPress.com/2014/11/19/w-w-w-wednesdays-9/
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My review is up!
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Sandra’s IGNORING GRAVITY is in my TBR too! 🙂
have a nice reading week! 🙂
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You too – I hope you enjoy Ignoring Gravity.
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These are really interesting selections. 🙂
I wondered why The Perfect Mother sounded so … familiar. Turns out it’s a fictionalized account of the Amanda Knox case. Looking forward to reading your review.
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Thank you – my review has now been posted of The Perfect Mother. It was a great premise for a book and of course as a reader you just can’t ignore what we know about that case.
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Those books look so good, especially The Perfect Mother.
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Thank you – The Perfect Mother exceeded my expectations.
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I must confess I started The Perfect Mother…and I was still reading it at 4am, until the Kindle Fire died (as per usual) I’ll be interested if you find it so compelling Cleo – although to be fair I’m only a third of the way through, so it could all change…although I do hope not…
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My review is now up so you can read my thoughts. I’m glad you’ve found it compelling so far, hopefully your battery has recharged now 🙂
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That’s it now recharged, after an afternoon on the internet, mostly checking the prices of books, surreptitiously of course…And reading blogs! I was going to not read your review, in case it influenced mine (I’m dreadful for second guessing myself when my opinion differs to another’s) but I shan’t be able to resist…All I’ll say before peeking that the mother is beyond annoying, and v controlling over her daughter, and probably the other children too…So rebellion when she got away was inevitable…Right, your review…
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