It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #SundaySalon

 

Linking to: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at BookDate; Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer; and the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz

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Life…

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I hope you have enjoyed your weekend.

We are not a religious family so Easter is simply a welcome four day weekend and an excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast. I made chocolate and white chocolate fudge this year in lieu of gifting Easter eggs as the cost has become ludicrous. I’d show you but what wasn’t given away is all gone. I think I got one piece, though to be fair I rarely eat chocolate so I don’t mind. I much prefer Hot Cross buns slathered with butter and toasted in the air fryer.

It’s the last (well technically the first- but we’ll just let that slide) Monday of the month, so here’s my challenge update.

2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge: 3/12

2024 Linz The Bookworm/ Logophile Reading Challenge: 16/60

The Crossing Continents Reading Challenge 2024: 3/12

2024 Fantasy/SciFi Reading Challenge: 3/12

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

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The Glass House by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion

The Next Big Thing by James Colley

Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan

Bloodlust Blues by Luanne Bennett

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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New Posts…

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Bookshelf Bounty

Review: Someone Else’s Bucket List by Amy T Matthews

Review: Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan

Review: Listen to the Lie by Amy Tintera

Review: Seven Summers by Paige Toon

Review: The Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew

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What I’m Reading This Week…

 

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food

Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends’ lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes.

Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever.

With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster?

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Are you on a date that doesn’t feel right?

Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar?

Worried you’re being followed home?

Message M.

After one too many terrifying encounters, Millie Masters sets up a hotline for women who feel unsafe walking home alone at night: Message M.

But very quickly she realises that there’s much more to be done to help the women who call in. Because the men just do it again the next night, and the next, and the next…

And when her own sister is assaulted on a night out, the temptation to take the law into her own hands becomes too much to resist.

Because M can also stand for murder…

A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted serial killer thriller with a villainous female lead readers can’t help but root for, perfect for fans of Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer, or who enjoyed watching You and now wants to take revenge.

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A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia’s most esteemed crime authors.

Grace is a thief- a good one. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items-stamps, watches-and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it’s a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It’s not the life she wants.

Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel’s rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different. A normal job. A place to call home.

But someone is looking for Erin. And someone’s looking for Grace, too. And they are both, in their own ways, very dangerous men.

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Detective Dave Burrows returns in a page-turning new novel of rural suspense from Voice of the Outback, Fleur McDonald.

Detective Dave Burrows has longed for the top job in the Stock Squad but never thought he’d be acting in that role while his partner and best mate, Detective Bob Holden, is treated for melanoma.

Bob is keen to get back on the road and Dave can’t wait to go bush either, expecting the trip will be much the same as usual.

But the trip doesn’t play out that way.

Multiple bomb blasts in the small country town of Kallygarn send shock waves through the state of Western Australia, and Dave and Bob are once again drawn into the criminal underworld.

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