WWW Wednesday – November 20

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

In The Colony Club by Shelley Noble (2024), Daisy Harriman leads a group of elite Manhattan women in establishing the first women’s club in New York, designed by the most sought-after yet scandalous architect in country, Stanford White. This is well researched and will appeal to readers who liked The Personal Librarian.

I’ve been enjoying The It Girl by Ruth Ware (2022) on audiobook. Set at Oxford, it’s about a quiet girl whose glamorous roommate is murdered at the end of their first year. Hannah’s testimony leads to someone being convicted of the murder but was he really guilty?

Just Finished

My lawyers’ book group will be discussing Present Laughter by Noel Coward (1939) tonight. Last month, it was revealed some had never heard of Coward, which shocked the judge we clerked for, so I suggested we read one of his plays for November and chose one I had not read or seen. It was amusing and I will try to find a dramatization on DVD.

I am still working on my 20 Books of Summer and it turned out Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson (2023) was extremely enjoyable (it was only at the bottom of the pile due to the alphabet!). It’s about a young Irish woman who is hired to help organize a struggling business but develops her own ideas about matchmaking.

Next Up

Just before it won the Booker Award, I got Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2023) from the library. It’s set during one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space.

The library has also produced the third in the Lavender Road series, On a Wing and a Prayer. It’s October 1941 and WWII seems endless but the families on Lavender Road are still sticking together to cope with wartime hardships.

I am intrigued by another book waiting for me at the library, Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch (2024), in which an actual pony must save the only human he's ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn't commit.

Yes, apparently the pony is the sleuth.  Do you remember a mystery called Three Bags Full back in 2005 about a flock of sheep determined to discover who killed their shepherd? It got a lot of attention so I eventually read it but found it somewhat boring. I hope this pony can do better!