WWW.WEDNESDAY

 

WWW. WEDNESDAY asks three questions to prompt you to speak bookishly. To participate, and to see how other book lovers responded, click here. 

PS I no longer participate in WWW.WEDNESDAY via that link because her blog won't accept Blogger comments. I mention this only to save you the frustration I experienced trying to link up.

1. What are you currently reading? The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue. This novel is set during that most magic time: young adulthood. Rachel is a college student, working in a bookstore, becoming instant best friends and roommates with James. Everything is new, exciting, and romantic. As our narrator recalls of those days, "I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

The story is told in flashback, with Rachel juggling career and pregnancy and James a success in New York. It's nice to know that these two get through the drama of their twenties that will unfold in the pages to come.

2. What did you recently finish reading? None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell. This thriller centers on "birthday twins." Josie and Alix were born in the same hospital, on the same day, in the same year. They meet by accident on their mutual 45th birthday. Josie imbues their chance encounter with meaning and is sure it's her opportunity to examine and change her life. She convinces Alix that they should do a podcast comparing/contrasting their lives and their journeys, and so "I'm Your Birthday Twin" is born.

Here's the hitch: Josie is batshit crazy. Slowly, dark secrets are revealed. Alix doesn't see it at first, not until dark shit begins to happen. Then, tragically, it's too late.

As you read this book, keep the title in mind. Josie is a most unreliable narrator. It's an entertaining and, at times, haunting book.

3. What will you read next? Something set stateside. My last four books have been set in the UK. Not by design, it's just happened that way. But enough! I want to come home.