Ah, Summer is finally here – the time of cherries, reading outside, and watching the best sunsets 🙂 Quite a good time for reading, isn’t it?
Currently reading
My current read is Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu – a fiction story set in Moldova in the middle ages. It is about two young women who discover their own way in a world defined by religion and class.
As Moldova is so close to Romania, both geographically and culturally, I feel as if reading a story about Romania. Really curious how it will end up!
The book was originally written in English – so I can already recommend it to my international book lovers! ❤
Finished reading
I finished only one book during the past month … but what a book! Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead is a 900+ pages masterpiece telling the story of Marian Graves, a fictional female aviator in the 20th century.
Other amazing secondary stories are weaved through the narrative – two of the most important being Jamie’s (the twin brother of Marian) and Hadley’s (actress in the contemporary world).
Great Circle is definitely one of the books that I recommend reading if you enjoy long books, getting so very close to the characters and following them as they grow.
The funny thing with this book is that I received access via Netgalley back in April, I started reading it and it did not captivate me at all. After 2 months I decided to give it another go – and I loved it!
In June I also started a book that I did not finish – Nutshell by Ian McEwan. It is a novel with an unusual narrator – an unborn baby who is the unknown witness to an evil plan.
Despite enjoying the first few pages, I gave up after reading about a third because the story was so very simple and the characters lacked depth. It was funny at times, but that was not enough to keep me reading.
Reading next
I have 2 books that I want to read pretty soon – namely 2 books that I bought from one of the biggest book festivals in Bucharest (BookFest):
- How to Stop Time by Matt Haig – the blurb reminded be of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (my review)
- In the Land of the Pure (FR: Au Pays des Purs) by Kenizé Mourad – a story set in Pakistan, a country I haven’t yet explore from a bookish perspective
What are your reading plans for the next period? Any new releases you’re super excited about?
Till next time … happy reading!
Georgiana
Cover photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash
Readers' High Tea 
The works of McEwan do have good premises and great starts. However, at times, he is not able to sustain them. I will definitely look Set in Stone up. Thanks!
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Oh, I see! It was the first McEwan book I read and I cannot agree more with you. What books would you recommend, where he better sustained the good starts?
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I read that Ian McEwan book, and I think a lot of it went over my head, because I’ve never read Shakespeare’s Hamlet so the fact that it’s a kind of comic retelling of that I missed altogether.
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Ah, I did not even know that it was a retelling of Hamlet! Thanks for letting me know!
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