Hello my bookish friends! How was your week? I've been fortunate to have some great titles available to me and had some good reading time.
Posted this week - my first nonfiction of the year Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
New books on the horizon - I picked up this month's issue of BookPage and found some good books coming out later this year.
A new Maggie O'Farrell and Ann Patchett book will go on my holds list as soon as they are published. The titles are Land and Whistler, respectively. Also I saw Tana French has a new book coming out but I am not a fan of her Cal Hooper series so I will pass, That said, I love Tana's writing and very much miss the Dublin Murder Squad series. Hoping the next book she writes will go back to that series...hopeful but doubtful.
Currently reading / Subpar Planet by Amber Share. A humorous nonfiction about celebrated landmarks and disappointed visitors.
Watching/ I don't remember who posted about this show but we recently watched Ambassadors and it was enjoyable. Some comedy and drama about the British ambassadors to fictional Asian country Tajbekistan. One of the actors is Keely Haws who we recognized from two other British shows - Mrs. Wilson and Line of Duty
Subpar Planet is not available at our library. I too enjoy Tana's Dublin Squad series. I will give her new one a try. We just watched two British series, Screw and Cuffs which we enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteI have finished several books this year, but no nonfiction YET. I am in the middle of several...which is probably why I haven't finished one yet.
ReplyDeleteI love Tana French's early books and have thought about re-reading them... maybe this year or next. We're currently watching The Game (on Britbox). It has the actor from McDonald and Dobbs, and is very good. Only 4 episodes, which is kind of nice. Currently reading The Eights, Winds of War, and The Emperor of All Maladies. Anything to drown out the awful news that has made 2026 seem just as bad as 2025. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any memoirs yet this year, though I've joined the Immigration Reading Challenge and the Japanese Reading Challenge.
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