It’s time for WWW Wednesday! This blog hop is hosted by Sam over at A World Of Words. Link up with us by commenting on Sam’s post for this week, and just answer the three questions.
What have you recently finished reading?
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‘ve had so much going on the last couple of weeks and I also fell into a bit of a reading slump. With that combination, it took me a full three weeks to finish Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton. It was… fine, and I was interested enough in the outcome that I wanted to stick it out, but I can’t say I was terribly invested in the characters. I can’t be bothered writing a full review but you can read my thoughts on GoodReads here.
I finished The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel on audio and this one was a lot more enjoyable. I have recently signed up for an Audible subscription, and while I didn’t pick up the second book immediately, I think it might be next month’s choice. I’ll have my review of this one up this week.
I posted by review of Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of a Hoarder by Corinne Grant this week. You can read it here.
What are you currently reading?
I have started the audio book of Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the recommendation of a friend. I am really enjoying this so far. The prose has a really fairytale-like quality, and the narrator’s voice is really suited to that. I’m not entirely sold on the Dragon, but I am hoping he’ll improve.
I’m also reading The Owl Service by Alan Garner. A few people at work read it and I wanted to get in on the action. I’m not quite sold on it yet, but I think I know where it’s going and it sounds like it could get interesting. Opinion at work is divided, so it’ll be interesting to see where I fall.
What do you think you will read next?
I have Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane and After the Party by Jesse Blackadder out from the library. Neither of these is what I would normally read but they are for my Australian Women Writers Challenge, in particular, my own diversity challenge-within-a-challenge.
What are you reading this week?
Uprooted has got to be one of my favourite YA novels, happy reading!
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I am enjoying it a lot!
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The Strings of Murder and Uprooted sound interesting.
Here’s my WWW for this week: https://ahappylittlebookworm.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/www-wednesday-23-05-18/
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I know what you mean about Hero of the Fall. I’m reading one now that sounds great on paper, and even though I’m not really crazy about these characters, I’ll finish the book. Just not as great as I’d hoped.
https://teripolen.com/2018/05/23/www-wednesdays-what-am-i-reading-amreading-2/
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I hope you’re pushing through okay, or that you’ve knocked it over! It’s so hard. Sometimes I wonder why I don’t DNF these ones, but sometimes there’s something just niggling at me to finish.
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Letting Go looks like a book for me…and I am also drawn to Uprooted. Enjoy your books, and here’s MY WWW POST
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I bought Hero at the Fall ages ago cos it was one of my most anticipated reads (and I wanted to know how it’d end) but I still haven’t read it. Sounds like it was a little disappointing which is a shame. I won’t get my hopes up.
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Yeah, I had a look and I’m not the only one who was a bit disapponted but it has an average rating of 4.4 on GoodReads so far, so the ratings must be skewing more towards the positive.
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