WWW Wednesday | 8-May-19

Another week in books. I’m a little late for this meme but let us anyway take a look back my recent reads.

The three Ws stands for the following questions.

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What did you recently finish reading?
3. What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading: Ghost Wall

Ever since this had been long-listed I have been meaning to read it up. Many have said the book is dark and unsettling. I hope the hype doesn’t take this book away for me.

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.

For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs—particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.
A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.

~Goodreads ~Amazon

Recently finished: Jane Eyre

This is obviously a re-read since everyone knows this is my favourite book of all time.

Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.

But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again?

~Goodreads ~Amazon

Next Read: An American Marriage

On Monday, I had selected this book as the book of the week for Goodreads Monday. Little did I know that I’ll end up adding this to my next read queue.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. In this deft exploration of love, loyalty, race, justice, and both Black masculinity and Black womanhood in 21st century America, Jones achieves that most-elusive of all literary goals: the Great American Novel.

~Goodreads ~Amazon

Meme of the day

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and currently revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words.

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Let’s talk

Have you read any of these books? Let me know in the comments below if you have any thoughts to share.

Happy Reading!