This Week ....

I'm reading

I got a bit of reading done this week, including a book that I totally did not expect to read!

I had to finish The Shadow on the Bridge by Clare Marchant, so that I could review it, which I did last week. You can see the review here. 

I then saw that  Susanna Kearsley was doing a webinar about her latest book The King's Messenger. I have this book, but I haven't read it yet. As she was talking I looked at my bookshelves to see which of her books I had to hand, and there was The Winter Sea! This was the first book I ever read by Kearsley and it made me an instant fan. I thought I would just read a couple of chapters, but you know how that goes. I ended up rereading it again. Given that I don't often reread, and this is the fourth time I have read this book, I guess you would have to call it a favourite. 

What I should have been reading was The Girl from Sicily by Siobhan Daiko. Fortunately I had some pretty solid reading time on two flights this weekend, so it is now finished, and the review will be up next week. 

On the second flight, I also started The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki. We are going to Japan very shortly so I wanted to try and read at least a couple of Japanese books. This one is a bit unusual so far!

Finally, I had picked up Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe from the library a couple of weeks ago on a whim, which was probably a bit silly given that I knew that I was going to struggle to read it before we went away. However, I started reading it last week. I read the prologue, which is about the bombing of Broome during WWII, and was really moved by it. I even gave it to my husband and said read this. When I went to school I don't recall really being taught that places like Broome and Darwin were bombed during the war. I think most people would know about Darwin now, but I don't think the other bombings would be as well known. We visited Broome a couple of years ago so are familiar with the history. I am definitely going to be trying to finish this book in the next couple of days before we go.

I'm watching

I came across a list of lesser known war movies so I think we are going to start working our way through some of these. 

The first one we watched was a Dutch movie called The Forgotten Battle, which is about the Battle of the Scheldt. It was actually pretty interesting. It followed a few different storylines until bringing it all together. Here's the trailer

Life

We did something a bit different last week and went and saw a play. While we go and see a lot of music, comedy and musical theatre, we don't go and see as much normal theatre. We went and saw the play based on Agatha Christie's book And Then There Were None. I haven't read a lot of Agatha Christie but I am tempted to get this one and see how the stage adaptation compares to the book.

I mentioned that we were on two flights. This is because we went up to Brisbane for the weekend. Well, really it was 24 hours as we flew up on Saturday morning and back on Sunday afternoon. The reason we went was because it is my stepson's 21st birthday this week. We had teppanyaki for dinner, which is always fun!

I am considering those as a practice run for the much longer flights that we have later this week! I don't think that I will have much internet access while we are on our cruise so it likely that I won't be doing one of these posts for the next couple of weeks! 

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Where a House is a Character
Blog Tour: Love & Laughter (and Other Disasters) by Elora Canne

Blog Tour: The Shadow on the Bridge by Clare Marchant
Weekend Cooking: Chicken and Mushroom Bake (Jamie Oliver)

Sunday Salon: Spell the Month in Books


I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz