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 was fully ensconced in Listen for the Lies (see “Just Finished”), so even Nosy Neighbors has just been sitting there waiting for me to be done. I tried to start it because I only had a physical copy of Listen for the Lies but my mind wouldn’t do it. It was totally fixated. I have read about 3% of Nosy Neighbors and none of A Curious Beginning but I will be getting into both books today.
Daytime book (physical book)
- Genre: Mystery
- Pages: 337
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: March 12, 2024
The New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell….
London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
Nighttime book (digital book)
- Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction
- Pages: 384 pages
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: April 2, 2024
Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else’s secrets… At Shelley House, the walls have ears, and they’re attached to a ragtag duo of busybodies ready to pry, snoop, and generally annoy their neighbors into solving a crime.
Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling has lived in Shelley House longer than any of the other residents, and if you take their word for it, she’s as cantankerous as they come. But Dorothy has her reasons for spying. And none of them require justifying herself to Kat Bennett.
Twenty-five-year-old Kat has never known a place where she felt truly at home, and crumbling Shelley House is no different. Her neighbors find her prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat’s plagued by a guilty secret from her past.
When their apartments face demolition, sworn enemies Kat and Dorothy agree on just one thing: they must save their historic building. But when someone plays dirty—and one of the residents is viciously taken down—Dorothy and Kat seek justice. The police close the investigation too soon, leaving it up to the unlikely amateur sleuths—with a playful Jack Russell terrier at their side—to restore peace in their community.
Just Finished
I had to put Listen for the Lie down last Wednesday and couldn’t pick it back up until Monday. I just finished it before putting this post together, and I don’t know if I have words yet. I can say that I loved it! The tone is so sarcastic and self-deprecating that it pulled me in immediately (is that weird?). It’s definitely a contender for favorite of the year.
- Genre: Mystery / Psychological Thriller
- Pages: 352
- 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.
Reading Next
These actually might change but right now anyway – next up for my reading pleasure is The Breakup Lists and Jaded. The descriptions of both intrigues me.
Nighttime Book (digital book)
- Genre: YA RomCom
- Pages: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Teen
- Publication Date: April 2, 2024
Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater
Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he’s not is a romantic. And why would he be? He’s already had a front row seat to his parents’ divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasmine’s broken heart one too many times.
No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the scenes—he is a stage manager, after all—and keeping his romantic exploits limited to the breakup lists he makes for Jasmine, which chronicle every flaw (real or imagined) of her various and sundry exes.
Enter Liam: the senior swim captain turned leading man that neither of the Ghasnavi siblings stop thinking about. Not that Jackson has a crush, of course. Jasmine is already setting her sights on him and he’s probably—no, definitely—straight anyway.
So why does the idea of eventually writing a breakup list for him feel so impossible?
Daytime Book (physical book)
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Pages: 365 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: March 19, 2026
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she’s willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Jade isn’t even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.
Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be.
Successful lawyer.
Dutiful daughter.
Beloved girlfriend.
Loyal friend.
Until Jade wakes up the morning after a work event, naked and alone, with no idea how she got home. Caught between her parents who can’t understand, her boyfriend who feels betrayed, and her job that expects silence, the world Jade has constructed starts to crumble.
Jade thought she was everything she ever wanted to be. But now she feels like nothing at all.
For fans of Queenie and I May Destroy You, Jaded is a blistering—and sometimes darkly funny—account of consent, power, race, sexism, and identity in a broken society.
What are you reading? Do you love it?
9 responses to “WWW Wednesday | Books I Am Reading This Week – March 6, 2024 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover”
Looks like a fab reading week!
I’ve got Jaded offered for audio review so I’m looking forward to your feedback. I’m #2 at the library for Listen for the Lie and I’m intrigued by you needing to get your thoughts together💜
I like the sound of the first three. For some reason, I’m oddly drawn to Nosy Neighbors which doesn’t fit my normal reading format. Hmm.
I’m getting ready to start The Ark and the Dove, then I hope to read Murder Road.
The Break up lists look great!
When I saw the title for Listen For the Lie, it reminds me of the saying, “If their lips are moving, they’re probably lying”. I hope these were all winners for you, Tessa.
A couple of these appeal to me. I love the Victorian England setting with A Curious Beginning, and the YA romcom sounds amusing. Happy Reading, Tessa!
Can’t wait to read nosy neighbors.
It’s a bit different than I expected but I hear it picks up so 🤞🏻
I am so excited to see A Curious Beginning on here!!! I just finished Listen for the Lie tonight and I LOVED it! Oh my gosh.. her humor/sarcasm makes the book. I’m not a big thriller person but this was a 5 star book for me!! I’m sure it will also be a contender for favorite of the year too!