Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!
- What am I currently reading?
- What did I just finish?
- What am I reading next?
Currently Reading
I’m basically starting both of these books today – Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (physical book) – I actually started Tuesday, but I didn’t get very far in – and When I’m Her by Sarah Zacrich Jeng. I’ve been excited to read both of them ever since I got them earlier this year. Before then, I had never heard of the books or the authors – so I’m excited to see what I think.
Daytime book (physical book)
- Genre: Mystery/Thriller
- Pages: 352 Pages
- Publisher: Celadon Books
- Publication Date: March 5, 2024
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
Nighttime book (digital book)
- Genre: Thriller
- Pages: 384 pages
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: March 26, 2024
How far would you go to get even with the woman who ruined your life?
In this electrifying thriller, a young woman gets everything she’s ever wanted—and everything she doesn’t—when she swaps bodies with her sworn enemy.
Though polar opposites, Mary and Elizabeth are as close as can be—until the night Elizabeth makes an irrevocable mistake and leaves Mary to take the blame. Years later, Elizabeth seems to have forgotten Mary exists.
Mary hasn’t forgotten her.
She follows Elizabeth’s every move online, obsessed with paying her back for the betrayal that cost Mary her dreams. Now Mary has found a way to switch bodies with Elizabeth, and she’s got a plan to steal her charmed life. Her career. Her looks. Her husband.
They do say living well is the best revenge.
Or is it? The more Mary uncovers about Elizabeth’s life, the more she realizes she may have made a deadly mistake. And she’ll need the help of her worst enemy to stay alive.
Just Finished
If you ever need a good laugh, you must meet Meddy’s Aunties in one of Jesse Sutanto’s novels featuring them. The Good, The Bad, and The Aunties are set in Indonesia (so there’s lots of cool cultural information threaded along with the humor) and had me laughing out loud from the very beginning.
- Genre: Humorous Mystery (cozy)
- Pages: 304
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: March 26, 2024
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.
After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt’s shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts—he’s determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing his courtship.
His grand gesture goes awry however, when it’s discovered that not all the gifts were meant for Second Aunt and the Chans—one particular gift was intended for a business rival to cement their alliance and included by accident. Of course the Aunties agree that it’s only right to return the gift—after all, anyone would forgive an honest mistake, right? But what should have been a simple retrieval turns disastrous and suddenly Meddy and the Aunties are helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta’s most powerful business factions. The fighting turns personal, however, when Nathan and the Aunties are endangered and it’s up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all. Determined to rescue her loved ones, Meddy embarks on an impossible mission—but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is truly impossible…
Reading Next
Those Beyond the Wall by Micah Johnson and Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray are both rather large books and look intense.
Nighttime Book (digital book)
- Genre: Dystopian/SciFy
- Pages: 384 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey
- Publication Date: March 12, 2024
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds.
Scales is the best at what she She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town. But that fragile peace is fractured when a woman is mangled and killed within Ash’s borders, right in front of Scales’s eyes. Even more incomprehensible is that there was seemingly no murderer.
When more mutilated bodies start to turn up, both in Ashtown and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales is tasked with finding the cause—and putting an end to it. She teams up with a frustratingly by-the-books partner and a brusque-but-brilliant scientist in order to uncover the truth, delving into both worlds to track down the invisible killer. But what they find points to something bigger and more corrupt than they could’ve ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.
Daytime Book (physical book)
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Pages: 528 pages
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: March 12, 2026
New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel about American heroine Frances Perkins, who pulled the nation out of the Great Depression.
Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference.
When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love.
But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House.
Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation.
What are you reading? Do you love it?
20 responses to “WWW Wednesday | Books I Am Reading This Week – February 28, 2024 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover”
Looks like a great mix of books. Hope you’re enjoying them!
So far, so good
Those Beyond the Wall sounds brilliant and I definitely need to read the Jessie Sutanto books after loving Vera Wong. Hope you enjoy all of these
You would love the Aunties. They are so funny!
Didn’t know there was a new Aunties book. Giving a long look to When I’m He, too.
Enjoy💜
It said it’s the last one and boy it’s funny!
I’m so behind on the Aunties! I’ve only read the first one, I think. haha. I’m glad you are still enjoying them!! Have a great week!
It said this is the last Aunties book. It’s so funny!
Ohh, good to know!!
Time to get caught up on the Aunties! They are funny.
So funny!
Have a great reading week Tessa!
Thank you! You too!
Listen For The Lie sounds really good. As always, you have a diverse collection lined up for reading. Enjoy!
So far, I’m enjoying it!
You’re right – Madam Secretary is a chunk. I’ve seen great reviews for the Sutanto series – think I’d enjoy them. Happy Reading, Tessa!
The Sutanto series is hilarious! it’s a great pick-me-up.
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Definitely going to read that Aunties series soon. Happy reading!
You’d love it!