WWW Wednesdays asks three questions: What Are you Currently Reading?, What Did You Just Finish Reading?, and What Will You Read Next?. Thanks to Taking On A World of Words for hosting WWW Wednesday.
MY CURRENT READ
This one should be ready for Indie Weekend. Book Description: Miranda Quinn is back in the courtroom working as a legal aid attorney when she’s asked to represent Lennon, the daughter of a high school friend currently serving time in prison. Still struggling with guilt from the role she played in her friend’s downfall, Miranda agrees to help.
The former assistant DA has given up a lucrative career as a legal talk radio host to better serve her community. In her spare time, she volunteers as a counselor for at-risk teens. It’s challenging but rewarding, at least until the young women begin to mysteriously disappear. As Miranda struggles to find out who is responsible, it becomes clear that Lennon is in danger as well.
WHAT I JUST FINISHED
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MAYHEM by Jodi Taylor: This is Jodi Taylor’s Christmas novella this year. Not really a Christmas story, but released on Christmas morning, this one was so much fun. St. Mary’s is hosting the filming of a movie! Chaos begins from there as somehow our disaster magnets end up in Troy–with the leading lady. I read it on Christmas morning and then just listened to it again recently on Audible.
WHAT I’M READING NEXT
Here is the book sitting on my desk as I type this:
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to raise money for the Women’s Voluntary Service to help Britain prepare for war. Baronet Sir Henry Heathcote has loaned Hursley House for the event, and all the elites of London society are attending. The gala is a brilliant success, despite a few hiccups, but the next morning, Sir Henry is found dead in the library.
Detective Chief Inspectors Lilian Wyles and Richard Davidson from Scotland Yard are quickly summoned and discover a cluster of potential suspects among the guests, including an upset fiancée, a politically ambitious son, a reserved but protective brother, an irate son-in-law, a rebellious teenage daughter, and the deputy home secretary.
LIFE UPDATE
The view this morning is almost heavenly. I stood outside long enough to snap a picture. It’s 23 degrees. We had just a little bit of snow Monday, and the mountains are tipped with a beautiful frost.
I am slowly (very slowly) transitioning away from my couch potato phase of retirement. I have Netflix and Chilled to my heart’s content. We watched all of the TV series Bones, and are just finishing up Star Trek Voyager. Next we will watch Doc Martin. I have also been reading/editing/reviewing for the Historical Novel Society quite a bit.
I am venturing out on the icy roads today to run errands. Wish me luck!
looks like you are easing into retirement. Well done. Happy reading.
Thanks Darlene! I need to get out more!
You will. You’ll soon be so busy you will wonder how you ever had time to work!
That is what everyone tells me. 🙂
What a beautiful view and good luck with driving! I’ve got Good to know the latest Christmas story was good fun, I’m a bit behind on them, so haven’t got to that one yet.
Are you still working on the Time Police books?
Yes I’m rationing myself as I don’t want to finish just yet.
Amazing, Bonnie. I hope you’re enjoying retirement in your new home.
Thanks! I am enjoying it too much I think.
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Happy New Year, Bonnie! Wishing you a blessed and happy time ahead.
Happy New Year! Hope your year is wonderful as well.
Happy New Year. I am reading Grace by Paul Lynch about a young girl during the famine in 1840s Ireland. Her mother sends her away from home dressed as a boy believing that is her best chance of surviving. It’s gruelling but the language is quite extraordinary. It’s taken two attempts but I am now thoroughly immersed in it.
The Four Queens of Crime sounds like a hoot. I will be interested to read your review.
Wonderful and Happy New Year! I’m reading “Surviving Sue” by Dr. Vicki Atkinson.
I just finished reading Alex Craigie’s The Rat in the Python: Fashion and posted my review today. I’m currently reading Do I Dream or Wake? by DeWitt Henry. It’s a collection of long-form poetry. I haven’t yet decided what I’ll read next. Too many good choices!
Bones is one of my all time favorite shows.
I absolutely loved Doc Martin, Bonnie. Enjoy retirement, it is the best.
Hi Bonnie, you have reminded me about Jodi Taylor’s St Mary’s series, for which I read and enjoyed the first book, several years ago now! 😅
Blessings, Jessica 💌
I envy you getting to read all the subsequent books for the first time!
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