I'm focusing purely on reading at the moment, and I know it'll be a week or so until my next review - so in the meantime I thought I'd share a 'preview' of what's coming up, both in my reading and here on the blog.
I am about to finish reading the third book in the Lady Trent series by Marie Brennan - The Voyage of the Basilisk. It's just a wonderful as the previous two and goes even deeper into the dragon science as well as Lady Trent's life and personality. As I've blogged about the two previous books separately, I plan to wait until I've read book four ( In the Labyrinth of Drakes) and then blog about that with The Voyage of the Basilisk in one post.
Two other books I will be combining into one post are Gone to Ground by Marie Jalowicz Simon and A Woman in Berlin. As you probably know these are both memoirs of being a woman, alone, in Berlin during the Second World War. They are both excellent books that made a deep impression on me - so much that I read them both a couple of months ago but still haven't worked out how to write about them. But I am determined to do this in July.
As I mentioned recently, I have organised my TBR into reading lists arranged by topic/type of book. This has helped me to narrow down the list and focus on what I really want to read rather than what I might one day want to read, at some point.
To this end I have purchased two books from my new reading lists, and these will be my next reads: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Girls Will Be Girls by Emer O'Toole. These are two books that I've wanted to read for quite a while, and the news that The Glass Castle is being adapted into a film (starring the excellent Brie Larson) moved that one to the top of the list.
Beyond that, I will be dipping into The Madwoman in the Attic and reading it where I can - it's so huge that I think I could be overwhelmed by it if I read it cover to cover with no breaks! Once I've read the Walls and O'Toole I'll be choosing my next book from my new reading lists - at the moment I'm leaning towards Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew. I loved her as Captain Janeway in Voyager and am now watching Orange is the New Black, and this reminded me that I have wanted to read her memoir for a while. Or I might choose something from my Mental Health list...
You can see my reading lists here - plenty to choose from!
My post about Gone to Ground and A Woman in Berlin will be up by the end of this week.
[All photos my own]
