WHAT ARE YOU READING THIS WEEK?

Today I’m participating in Sam’s WWW Wednesdays.  Here’s how it works:

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next, and/or what are you eagerly awaiting?

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Currently Reading:  I’ve been reading this library book for two days already.  For some reason, the pages are not flying by, but perhaps I am just easily distracted, since it is not a thriller.  When Life Gives You Lululemons, by Lauren Weisberger, is all about life in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut, and the characters are super-annoying.  I do like Emily, who was a favorite character in The Devil Wears Prada.  But the book alternates between characters, and like I said:  some of them are really unlikable.  I’m more than half-finished, so I’ll keep plodding along.

BOOKS FINISHED SINCE LAST WEEK: (Click Titles/Covers for My Reviews)

Fear:  Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward

Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties, by Camille Pagan

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EAGERLY ANTICIPATING:

I saw this book on a blog the other day, and had to pre-order it.  I do love Therese Anne Fowler’s fictionalized tales of people in history, so I was immediately drawn to A Well-Behaved Woman:  A Novel of the Vanderbilts,  which paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules—and how to break them.

 

Synopsis:  The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.

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What did your week look like?  I’d love to check out the books you are reading.

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