It’s WWWWednesday!

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

What are you currently reading?

I’m not so much reading as trying to catch up on sharing my thoughts on the final books of 2023.

Whilst I won’t post about Vera Wang (see below) until after the club has met nor will I post about The Longest Goodbye until my spot on the BlogTour comes around I do have to share my thoughts on The Hermit by Louise Walters, The Night Before Christmas by Alex Pine and Case Histories by Kate Atkinson.

What did you recently finish?

BlogTour

What a doozy of a BlogTour this is going to be! I’m thrilled to be a part of this Random Things Tours in January 2024.

Book blurb

LIES COST LIVES
THE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLER

Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.
Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK.
Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands?

Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team’s lives, on the line.

The gripping new Kate Daniels thriller about what happens when someone takes the law into their own hands from awardwinning crime writer Mari Hannah.

What else did you recently finish?

Book blurb: This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted…

When four trail hunters go missing in the fells of Cumbria on Christmas Eve, the race is on to find them before nightfall – when the temperature plummets.

After hours of searching, the first body is found… Not frozen in the snow, but brutally murdered and bearing a warning: the real hunt has begun.

As a snowstorm descends, three lives hang in the balance. But can the killer be caught before the trail goes cold?

What else did you recently finish?

Book blurb: Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…
Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective?

Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet).

But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could – because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands – Vera decides it’s down to her to catch the killer.

Nobody spills the tea like this amateur sleuth.

What do you think you will read next?

I’m not sure what the next read will be once I’ve caught up on reviews but I have a few possible BlogTours that will be all that I do on that front up to June this year (2024). I am also compiling a list of classics to read through the year. I hope to read 12 in 2024. I’ll be joining in with #20BooksofSummer24 provided Cathy@746books is up for hosting that challenge again. I’m also planning for #NovNov24 in the hope that it too happens again this year. I may join one or two other challenges if they happen during 2024.

So I’m more at the sorting out and planning stage of my reading year and my actual reading is taking a slow run up to, hopefully, gather pace. I hope to read around 52 books this year. I’ve found over recent years that an average of one book a week is a good amount for me.

I’ll post a quick update on what I read in 2033 soon.

This meme is a great way to keep my reading organised and share a regular weekly post with you. I hope that you enjoy it too. Do share your thoughts on this post and the books featured above by leaving a comment below. It’s always good to read what you think.

And finally

I would like to wish everyone who is kind enough to read, to comment and to share my thoughts a very big thank you.

And best wishes for a very Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year to everyone. I hope that 2024 will be a better year for us all.