WWW Wednesday – What Am I Reading? 27th February 2019
WWW Wednesday – What Am I Reading? 27th February 2019
WWW Wednesday is a meme from Sam at Taking On A World Of Words
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
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Currently Reading – Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Behind the most famous movie ever made is a tale of love, magic and one incredible woman.
Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for the screen, Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to visit the set.
Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book – because she’s the only one left who knows its secrets…
But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of ‘Over the Rainbow’, Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her rebellious youth as a suffragette’s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired his famous work.
With the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her – the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.
Release Date – 26th February 2019
Purchase online from: Amazon.co.uk – Amazon.com
Finished Recently – The Blameless Dead by Gary Haynes
In the dying days of World War Two, Pavel Romasko and his Red Army colleagues pick their way through the carnage and detritus of a dying Berlin. Stumbling upon the smoking remains of a Nazi bunker, they find something inside that eclipses the horror of even the worst excesses in the city above them…
As the war ends, retribution begins. But some revenge cannot be taken at once. Some revenge takes years.
And so it is, as post-war Europe tries desperately to drag itself back onto its feet, and soldiers attempt a return to normality, that retribution continues to ferment in the Gulags of the Soviet Union and beneath the surface of apparently ordinary lives.
Which is how, seventy years later, FBI agent Carla Romero and New York lawyer Gabriel Hall are enlisted to investigate a series of blood-chilling crimes that seem to have their roots in the distant past — even though the suffering they cause is all too present. And for one of them, the disappearance of young women is a particularly personal matter.
Release Date – 18th March 2019
Purchase online from: Amazon.co.uk – Amazon.com
Reading Next – The Good Friend by Jo Baldwin
If only she knew what sort of friend I really am . . .
Once upon a time, Jenny and Kath were best friends. Or were they?
Their reunion after eight years apart – when Jenny pays a visit from Australia where she’s settled – begins as idyllic. But all too soon, things begin to unravel and once the past is uncovered, there’s no going back.
This beautifully written, gripping and unforgettable psychological drama about love, lies and obsession will keep you reading long in to the night.
Keep your friends close, but your best friends closer
Release Date – 21st February 2019
Finding Dorothy sounds really interesting. I adore the film but I’ve never actually read the Wizard of Oz books. I hope you’re enjoy this angle on it.
My CWW & WWW this week.
It’s a lovely book, enjoying more the era around production than the earlier years.
Finding Dorothy sounds like a fab twist on the story! Will look forward to your thoughts! Here is my WWW http://zooloosbookdiary.co.uk/www-wednesdays-27th-february-2019-www
It’s a lovely book so far.
I love love love the 1930s Wizard of Oz, so I really have to put Finding Dorothy on my TBR. Sounds awesome! Here’s my WWW this week: https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/www-wednesdays-february-27-2019/
I hope you get to read it and enjoy it too.
I’ve been interested in reading Finding Dorothy. It sounds like a great read.
It really is.