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What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have had a busy day playing for a wedding and teaching but hopefully the rest of the week will be quieter and involve lots of reading.
What I am Currently Reading
I have nearly finished this book and I have really enjoyed it. It could be one of my favourite Maigret books so far.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I really enjoyed this book and will be writing my review soon. Jennifer Saint is definietly an auto buy author for me now.
What I Think I will Read Next
My 20 Books of Summer Challenge begins tomorrow and I am very excited to get reading some of these books and also lower my TBR pile.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Happy Monday!
I am off on an adventure today but you will know more later on in the week. I am on half term this week so I am hoping to catch up on my book review writing and reading.
I’ve been wanting to read this for a long time and I’m not sure why I have put it off for so long because I am quite excited to read it.
The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world. Not only is the influence of Greek drama palpable in everything from Shakespeare to modern television, the insights contained in Greek tragedy have shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life. Poets, philosophers, and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times.
This exciting curated anthology features a cross section of the most popular–and most widely taught–plays in the Greek canon. Fresh translations into contemporary English breathe new life into the texts while capturing, as faithfully as possible, their original meaning.
This outstanding collection also offers short biographies of the playwrights, enlightening and clarifying introductions to the plays, and helpful annotations at the bottom of each page. Appendices by prominent classicists on such topics as “Greek Drama and Politics,” “The Theater of Dionysus,” and “Plato and Aristotle on Tragedy” give the reader a rich contextual background. A detailed time line of the dramas, as well as a list of adaptations of Greek drama to literature, stage, and film from the time of Seneca to the present, helps chart the history of Greek tragedy and illustrate its influence on our culture from the Roman Empire to the present day.
With a veritable who’s who of today’s most renowned and distinguished classical translators, The Greek Plays is certain to be the definitive text for years to come.
What are your thoughts on this book if you have read it?
Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
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What do you think you will read next?
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I hope you are all having a good week so far. I am thoroughly enjoying the sunshine at the moment and hope it doesn’t disappear anytime soon.
What I am Currently Reading
I am really enjoying this book so far. Jennifer Saint is a definite auto buy author for me.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
Another fantastic book by Garth Nix. Review will be posted soon.
What I Think I will Read Next
I will be starting my 20 Books of Summer Challenge on the 1st June so my reading will be a little more structured than usual so hopefully it will be one of these books that I read next.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Happy Monday!
I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I have spent a good chunk of today gardening which was nice but I think I will most likely ache tomorrow.
My chosen book this week is one on my 20 Books of Summer challenge.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enrol in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world’s centre for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire’s quest for colonisation.
For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realises serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organisation dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .
What are your thoughts on this book if you have read it?
Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I’ve had a really good week reading so far and I hope it continues.
What I am Currently Reading
I started this yesterday after binge reading The Left-Handed Booksellers of London on Monday. I had forgotten just how good Garth Nix was as an author.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I wasn’t too impressed with The Power and the Glory but I absolutely loved The Left-Handed Booksellers of London.
What I Think I will Read Next
I have these 4 books lined up for this month as I need some shorter reads whilst working.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
I will be honest I my TBR plans for March went out of the window and April was just a struggle to read let alone stick to a plan. However, for May I am going to try and read some planned reads but maybe not as structured as my previous TBR posts.
Shorter books are best
One thing I have worked out is that currently when I am working I’m too tired to tackle big books. I’m not reading so much at night because I struggle to focus and so I’m only really reading in the morning. So I have chosen some shorter books to keep me occupied this month.
Comfort Reads
I have some current comfort reads at the moment in the form of two book series that I love reading and feel like I can trust to not upset me. These are the next two books I am due to read in the series.
These are my planned reads for May and hopefully I will get around to reading some extra books as well. At the end of the month I have half term so I might plan a longer read them.
I hope you all have some good reads planned for May.
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I hope you are all having a good week so far. I will be honest today has been rather a tiring day and I am thoroughly looking forward to getting into bed with my book later.
What I am Currently Reading
This is an interesting read and not what I was expecting. So far it is an excellent read.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I found this an interesting read and will be writing and posting my review soon.
What I Think I will Read Next
I have bought quite a few new books recently and I can’t wait to read them. I just don’t know what to read first!
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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Pinch, punch first of the month! Yes it is May, I’m not sure how we are already in May but I’m really hoping this means less rain and more sunshine. I want to get out and read in my garden!
Anyway, my chosen book for Goodreads Monday is one that I have recently added to my TBR list on Goodreads but one that I hope to read very soon and not just because the lady at Waterstones said it was her favourite book of 2023 so far.
New York is slipping from Cleo’s grasp. Sure, she’s at a different party every other night, but she barely knows anyone. Her student visa is running out, and she doesn’t even have money for cigarettes. But then she meets Frank. Twenty years older, Frank’s life is full of all the success and excess that Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a green card. She offers him a life imbued with beauty and art—and, hopefully, a reason to cut back on his drinking. He is everything she needs right now.Â
Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite keep up with. It reshapes their lives and the lives of those around them, whether that’s Cleo’s best friend struggling to embrace his gender identity in the wake of her marriage, or Frank’s financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates after being cut off. Ultimately, this chance meeting between two strangers outside of a New Year’s Eve party changes everything, for better or worse.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our entire lives and those imperfect relationships born of unexpectedly perfect evenings.
What are your thoughts on this book if you have read it?
Please drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I am back at work full swing and it has been rather a shock to the system.
What I am Currently Reading
I have only just started reading this and I have literally only read the first 10 pages but I am really excited to read my first Daphne de Maurier book.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I finished both of these this week and really enjoyed them both. Reviews will follow shortly.
What I Think I will Read Next
As usual I never know what to read next but it might possibly be one of these.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
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What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have managed to catch up a little bit with my reading this week as I have managed to have a couple of quiet days.
What I am Currently Reading
I have just got half way through this and I am absolutely loving it so far.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I finished this on Tuesday and I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Review is coming soon.
What I Think I will Read Next
So many books and I’m never sure what to read next.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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