Hello lovely bookish folk! How are we doing?! All ok i hope! Very scary and surreal times we're living in, so I hope we're all doing as we're told and STAYING AT HOME and WASHING YOUR HANDS!! I've been extremely thankful for the sunshine this week as it has meant that I've been able to escape out into the garden - a great place to go and forget what is going on in the world!
So how is your reading going?! I've been using books to escape and so my afternoons have been spent reading in the sunshine when I can - so good for the soul! So I've managed to finish 6 books this week which has been fabulous! I've been very restrained on the book buying front with no new purchases arriving, BUT there's always Netgalley and that may have lured me back to add 3 newbies to my shelf!
Here's my look back!
BOOKS FINISHED
THE GARDEN JUNGLE by DAVE GOULSON - 5 STARS
NEW YEAR, NEW GUY by ANGELA BRITNELL - 5 STARS
WILD DOG by SERGE JONCOUR - 4 STARS
THE POOR RELATION by SUSANNA BAVIN - 5 STARS
BOOKHAUL
Netgalley got me again....
DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT by LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON
Out June 25th 2020
Lucia’s fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: ‘He knows.’
London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly-paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done, and so sets out to solve the crime herself. Enlisting the help of thieftaker, Peregrine Child, their inquiry delves into the hidden corners of Georgian society, a world of artifice, deception and secret lives.
But with many gentlemen refusing to speak about their dealings with the dead woman, and Caro's own reputation under threat, finding the killer will be harder, and more treacherous than she can know . . .
TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS by CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
out September 2020
A brand new space opera on an epic scale from the New York Times bestselling author of a beloved YA fantasy series.
It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet. But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history.
Her journey to discover the truth about the alien civilization will thrust her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact, epic space battles for the fate of humankind, and the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet. But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history.
Her journey to discover the truth about the alien civilization will thrust her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact, epic space battles for the fate of humankind, and the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
MISS BENSON'S BEETLE by RACHEL JOYCE
out June 2020
It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.
Enid Pretty, in her unlikely pink travel suit, is not the companion Margery had in mind. And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves.
This is a story that is less about what can be found than the belief it might be found; it is an intoxicating adventure story but it is also about what it means to be a woman and a tender exploration of a friendship that defies all boundaries
Enid Pretty, in her unlikely pink travel suit, is not the companion Margery had in mind. And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves.
This is a story that is less about what can be found than the belief it might be found; it is an intoxicating adventure story but it is also about what it means to be a woman and a tender exploration of a friendship that defies all boundaries
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HAPPY READING AND STAY SAFE!!
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