Waiting on Wednesday: The Fall of Saints

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.

This week's anticipated book:

    

Publisher: Atria Books 

Publication date: February 25, 2014

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From barnesandnoble.com:  In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat is living the American Dream until she uncovers her husband’s secrets and opens a Pandora’s box of good versus evil.

You can escape from a place…but not from your past.

Mugure and Zack seem to have the picture-perfect family: a young, healthy son, a beautiful home in Riverdale, New York, and a bright future. But one night, as Mugure is rummaging through an old drawer, she comes across a piece of paper with a note scrawled on it—a note that calls into question everything she’s ever believed about her husband…

Mugure heads down a dangerous road that takes her back to Kenya, where new discoveries threaten to undo her idyllic life. She wonders if she ever really knew the man she married and begins to piece together the signs that were there since the beginning. Who was that suspicious man who trailed Zack and Mugure on their first date at a New York nightclub? What about the closing of the agency that facilitated the adoption of their son? Who made a threat against her husband’s life? Soon, Zack must pay the price for his greed, and Mugure finds herself wielding a gun, fighting for her life.

Inspired by true news stories of human trafficking and international adoptions, The Fall of Saints tackles real-life political and ethical issues through a striking, beautifully rendered story. This extraordinary novel will tug at your heart and keep it racing until the end.

My thoughts:  This debut novel's description strikes at the very core of a family's foundation, raising serious moral and ethical concerns.  How well does one truly know a spouse and what actions he or she is capable of?  The Fall of Saints will undoubtedly draw readers into a dilemma of heart-wrenching proportions.

 

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #23

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

This week's selection:

   

Beginning:  Chapter 1 Material Witness

 

It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden.

 

There are quite a few curiosities in this first sentence:  Who is Martin Turner?  How does one sign on to become an apprentice gigolo?  Does Martin Turner think of this as a career advancement?  Whose body is in front of St. Paul's?

 

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Page 56:  "I took a pull from my pint and waited.  Nightingale smiled again and sipped his own drink.  'Once you cross this particular Rubicon there will be no going back,' he said."

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From barnesandnoble.com:  Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic. 

 

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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Waiting on Wednesday: Not Without You

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.

This week's anticipated book:

 

 Publisher: Gallery Books 

Publication date: February 11, 2014
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From barnesandnoble.com:  From internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans comes an intriguing and fresh new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes intertwined with a glamorous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier. 

Sophie Leigh’s real name is Sophie Sykes. But she hasn’t been called that for years, not since she became an A-list movie star. Living in Hollywood, she can forget all about her old life in England and the tragedy she left behind. But in the process, she’s lost something of herself, too.

Eve Noel didn’t choose her name. A Hollywood producer did. In fact, he makes all the decisions for her—what to wear, when to smile, who to love. A product of the 1950s, Eve has none of Sophie’s modern self-confidence, but she knows she must follow her heart. One day, she simply vanishes: no one knows where she went, or why…

As Sophie’s perfect-on-the-outside world begins to crumble, it seems her life might be linked to Eve’s. And when past and present collide, Sophie must unravel the mystery around Eve’s disappearance to save them both—but is she already too late?

Blending her trademark wit, emotional insight, and gift for characterization this is Harriet Evans at her best.

My thoughts:  Mystery, glamour, and Hollywood are the perfect blend for an enjoyable read.  I'm really looking forward to the release of this novel.

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine
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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #40

 

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraphs from Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell, which I recently borrowed from the library.

   

Instructions for a Heatwave

Thursday

15 July 1976

Highbury, London

The heat, the heat.  It wakes Gretta just after dawn, propelling her from the bed and down the stairs.  It inhabits the house like a guest who has outstayed his welcome: it lies along corridors, it circles around curtains, it lolls heavily on sofas and chairs.  The air in the kitchen is like a solid entity filling the space, pushing Gretta down into the floor, against the side of the table.

Only she would choose to bake bread in such weather.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?   This book came highly recommended by other bloggers and I had quite a long wait for a copy from the library.  Now that I have started it, my first impression is that this is one of those addictive reads. The story opens in London during a drought, and what starts out as a fairly routine day for Gretta Riordan turns out to to be anything but ordinary as the chapters unfold. 

What are you reading?

 

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine
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Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #44

Here's my recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired this week, which I am sharing on the following blogs:

Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga's Reviews / Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer /  Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .

My Week in Books, November 10 - 16, 2013

 

Finished reading . . .
   Archetype by M.D. Waters

 

Currently reading . . .
  The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Ebooks downloaded . . .

   

Kindle:  The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom, The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro, and Scherzo by Jim Williams

Borrowed from the library . . .

                             

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell, Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon, and Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

Which books did you get this week?
   

Catherine
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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #22

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

This week's selection:

  

Beginning:  Ruth woke at four in the morning and her blurry brain said "Tiger."  That was natural; she was dreaming.  But there were noises in the house, and as she woke she heard them.  They came across the hallway from the lounge room.  Something large was rubbing against Ruth's couch and television and, she suspected, the wheat-coloured recliner disguised as a wingback chair.  Other sounds followed: the panting and breathing of a large animal; a vibrancy of breath that suggested enormity and intent; definite mammalian noises, definitely feline, as if her cats had grown in size and were sniffing for food with enormous noses.  But the sleeping cats were weighing down the sheets at the end of Ruth's bed, and this was something else.

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Page 56:  "Frida believed she had a secret, Ruth saw, and it was this: that Ruth and Richard were innocents, that they were old, older than old, and that while they might still be capable of a sweet funny romance, any physical possibility was extinguished for them both."

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From barnesandnoble.com:  A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer.

 

Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.

Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself?

The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane’s hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn’t be. Here is a new writer who comes to us fully formed, working wonders with language, renewing our faith in the power of fiction to describe the mysterious workings of our minds.

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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Waiting on Wednesday: New Sarah Jio Novel

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.

This week's anticipated book:

    

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) 

Publication Date: November 26, 2013

 

From barnesandnoble.com:   New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle’s Lake Union—home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959.

Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor’s fate, but little suspects that Penny’s mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.

 

My thoughts:  After reading and enjoying two previous Sarah Jio novels, I am thrilled that it is less than a two-week wait until her fifth novel becomes available on November 26th.  In my previous reads, The Violets of March and The Last Camellia, Jio wove together stories from alternating time periods and introduced memorable casts of authentic characters.  In each case, I found myself captivated by the descriptive settings and totally immersed in the plots.  Ms. Jio has become one of my favorite authors, and I look forward to this new novel, as well as her other previous novels, The Bungalow and Blackberry Winter.

 

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #39

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraphs from Always Watching by Chevy Stevens, which I recently borrowed from the library.

   

Always Watching 

CHAPTER ONE

The first time I saw Heather Simeon, she was curled into a ball in the seclusion room at the hospital, a thin blue blanket tight around her, the bandages sharp white lines circling her wrists.  Her blond hair obscured most of her face.  Even then, she still gave off a sense of refinement, something in the high cheekbones barely visible through the veil of her hair, the beautifully arched brows, the patrician nose, the delicate outline of pale lips.  Only her hands were a mess: the cuticles raw and bleeding, the nails jagged.  They didn't look bitten, they looked broken.  Like her.

I'd alredy read her file and talked with the emergency psychiatrist who'd admitted her the night before, then gone over everything with the nurses, most of whom had worked in the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for years, and who were also my best sources of information.  I might spend fifteen minutes to an hour with each patient during my morning rounds, but the rest of the time I was at my office in the Mental Health building, treating patients who are out in the community.  That's why I like to bring a nurse with me when I first meet a patient, so we're on the same page with the care plan.  Michelle, a cheerful woman with curly blond hair and a wide smile, was with me now.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading? This book caught my eye when I saw it on another blog last month.  After reading the opening paragraphs, I am wondering about Heather and her circumstances: Who is she?  What has caused her such distress?  I'm also curious about the narrator, who is a psychiatrist.  How will this story unfold?

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine
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Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #43

Here's my recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired this week, which I am sharing on the following blogs:

        

                                   

                       
Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer / Stacking the Shelves hosted by the team at Tynga's Reviews / Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .

My Week in Books, November 3 - 9, 2013

Finished reading . . .
  Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Currently reading . . .
  The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Ebooks downloaded . . .
                                    
Nook:  By The Sea Book One: Tess by Antoinette Stockenberg; Wasteland by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavin



Kindle: Coming to Rosemont by Barbara Hinske, Mystral Murder by Lee Hanson, and Village Books by Craig McLay

Borrowed from the library . . .
        
Always Watching by Chevy Stevens, The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane, Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer, and Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax

Which books did you get this week?
   

Catherine
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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #21

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

This week's selection:

 

Beginning:  MONDAY

It was all because of the Berlin Wall.  

If it weren't for the Berlin Wall, Cecilia would never have found the letter, and then she wouldn't be sitting here, at the kitchen table, willing herself not to rip it open.

My thoughts:  I requested this book from the library quite some time ago and finally got it this week.  The opening sentences really piqued my curiosity.  I started reading last night, and can't wait to find out what is written in the letter.  Since this novel is a bestseller, some of you reading this post already know...

 

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Page 56:  "Without warning, the biscuit slipped from Rachel's fingers and she hunched over, as if she could duck the first punch, but it was too late, it had her. It had been a long time since it was as bad as this."

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From barnesandnoble.com:  At the heart of The Husband's Secret is a letter that's not meant to be read.

My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died. . .

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine
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Waiting on Wednesday:Tyringham Park

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.

This week's anticipated book:

   

 Publisher: Atria Books

Publication Date:  February 25, 2014

Preorder from online and brick and mortar bookstores

From barnesandnoble.com: The country estate of Tyringham Park is the epitome of wealth and privilege. Home to the Blackshaws, it finds itself the backdrop to tragedy.

It is a beautiful day in 1917, and Tyringham Park is in an uproar after little Victoria Blackshaw, an innocent toddler, disappears without a trace. The feverish search for Victoria soon uncovers jealousies and deceits that both the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants of the grand estate have fought for years to keep hidden.

As times passes, Victoria’s disappearance casts a long shadow over all of their lives. Charlotte, the Blackshaw’s less favored eight-year-old daughter, finds herself severely impacted by the loss of her sister. As the years pass, she begins to believe that her mother wishes it was she who had disappeared that day rather than the pretty Victoria. Her greatest wish is to escape the confines of the estate that she once loved; however, Tyringham Park and its mysteries may never release its hold on her. Like all those at Tyringham Park, she is forced into a web of passions and secrets, trysts and betrayals that affect the days of everyone connected to this once great house.

My thoughts: This debut novel, set during the Downton Abbey era, was highlighted during Simon & Schuster's Spring 2014 Educator & Librarian Preview as a book for Kate Morton fans. While the description alone is enough to have me anticipating its U.S. publication, I find the author's background interesting as well.  Rosemary McLoughlin, who was born in Australia and now resides in Ireland, is an accomplished artist who is currently at work on a sequel to Tyringham Park.  Information about the author's life and writing--along with images of her art--is available on her website, rosemarymcloughlin.com.

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #38

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraphs from La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith, which a friend gave me.

   

La's Orchestra Saves the World  

Part One

One

Two men, who were brothers, went to Suffolk.  One drove the car, an old Bristol drophead coupe in British racing green, while the other navigated, using an out-of-date linen-backed map.  That the map was an old one did not matter too much: the roads they were following had been there for a long time and were clearly marked on their map -- narrow lanes flanked by hedgerows following no logic other than ancient farm boundaries.  The road signs -- promising short distances of four miles, two miles, even half a mile -- were made of heavy cast-iron, forged to last for generations of travellers.  Some conscientious hand had kept them freshly painted, their black lettering sharp and clear against chalk-white backgrounds, pointing to villages with names that meant something a long time ago but which were now detached from the things to which they referred -- the names of long-forgotten yeoman families, of mounds, of the crops they grew, of the wild flora of those parts.  Garlic, cress, nettles, crosswort -- all these featured in the place-names of the farms and villages that dotted the countryside -- their comfortable names reminders of a gentle country that once existed in these parts, England.  It still survived, of course, tenacious here and there, revealed in a glimpse of a languourous cricket match on a green, of a trout pool under willow branches, of a man in a flat cap digging up potatoes; a country that still existed but was being driven into redoubts such as this.  The heart might ache for that England, thought one of the brothers; might ache for what we have lost.

They almost missed the turning to the village, so quickly did it cone upon them.  There were oak trees at the edge of a field and immediately beyond these, meandering off to the left, was the road leading to the place they wanted.  The man with the map shouted out, "Whoa!  Slow down," and the driver reacted quickly, stamping on the brakes of the Bristol, bringing it to a halt with a faint smell of scorched rubber.  They looked at the sign, which was a low one, almost obscured by the topmost leaves of nettles and clumps of cow parsley.  It was the place.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?  Although the first two paragraphs are very wordy, I've read and enjoyed other Alexander McCall Smith novels and consider him one of my favorite authors.

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine
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Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #42

Here's my recap of books that I'm reading or have acquired this week, which I am sharing on the following blogs:

        

                                   

                       
Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer / Stacking the Shelves hosted by the team at Tynga's Reviews / Showcase Sunday hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea . . .

My Week in Books, October 26 - November 2, 2013

Finished reading . . .
  Lettters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

Currently reading . . .
  Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Books purchased . . .
    Killer Librarian by Mary Lou Kirwin  -- I couldn't resist this first book in a new cozy mystery series after seeing it on another blogger's site!

Ebooks downloaded . . .
   
Nook:  The Housewife Assassin's Killer 2-Book Set by Josie Brown  
Kindle: Impossibly Love by Shane Morgan

Borrowed from the library . . .
     
Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron, Murder and Marinara by Rosie Genova, and Warning at One by Ann Purser

Which books did you get this week?
   

Catherine
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