Today I’m participating in WWW Wednesdays, at Taking on a World of Words. Here’s how it works:
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next, and/or what are you eagerly awaiting?
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CURRENTLY READING: Queen Meryl, by Erin Carlson
BOOKS FINISHED SINCE MY LAST POST: OCTOBER 8, 2019
The Grammarians, by Cathleen Schine
The Nanny, by Gilly Macmillan
Inside Out, by Demi Moore
The Lying Room, by Nicci French
Lifelines, by Heidi Diehl (Amazon Vine Review)
Good Girl, Bad Girl, by Michael Robotham
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EAGERLY ANTICIPATING: (I just ordered this book, which should arrive tomorrow!)
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie, by Carly Simon
Synopsis: A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair―Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history. Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen. The time they spent together―lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates―brought a welcome lightness and comfort to their days, but their conversations often veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate the shifting waters of life lived, publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss.
An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, Carly Simon’s Touched by the Sun is a chronicle, in loving detail, of the late friendship she and Jackie shared. It is a meditation on the ways someone can unexpectedly enter our lives and change its course, as well as a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
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That was my reading since my last post on October 8. What has your reading been like?
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Wow, you got through so many books in the last few weeks! Touched by the Sun sounds intriguing. I can see why it would appeal to you.
Here’s my WWW: https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/www-wednesdays-23rd-october-19/
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Thanks, Cathy, I’m hooked on anything about the Kennedys, especially Jackie.
Now that I’m settled in here, the reading seems to flow smoothly.
Enjoy your week.
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I bet the Carly Simon book will be good!
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Thanks, Mary, I’m looking forward to it.
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I hadn’t heard of Queen Meryl, but that sounds like it’d be an interesting book! I love Meryl Streep. My library just got The Nanny in, and I was looking at it this week, thinking if I wanted to pick it up or not. Glad you seemed to like it so much, and it sounds like a great creepy read. Maybe I’ll grab it tomorrow. :3 Happy reading!
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Thanks, Sammie, I love her, too, and enjoy watching her movies. The Nanny was a good but creepy read.
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That Carly Simon memoir looks fascinating!
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Thanks, Lilyfae, I’m really eager to read it. Enjoy your reading.
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Laurel, that’s lots of reading you’ve been doing. Here’s what I’ve been reading: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/www-wednesday-23rd-october-2019/ 🙂
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Thanks, Jessica, I am enjoying this week’s books, too. Have a great week.
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Thank you 🙂
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I normally don’t read autobiographies but Queen Meryl and Touched by the Sun sound fantastic!!
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Thanks, Jolie, I do enjoy nonfiction based on some of my favorite celebrities and authors. Have a great week.
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I really want to read Inside Out. I’m a little fascinated by it. I have it on hold at my library, so I’ll probably get to enjoy it in like a year. LOL Happy reading!
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Thanks, Deanna, I really enjoyed Inside Out; hope you do, too.
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Yes Queen Meryl! I have to read this!
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Thanks, Jen, I’m loving it.
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I want to read The Nanny and The Lying Room. Both look like great suspenseful reads.
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Thanks, Katherine, I loved them both. Hope you do, too.
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