Currently Reading...

I thought I would start a new mini series to share with you the books I'm currently reading to hopefully inspire your TBR list!

My current read is '10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World' by Elif Shafak.

Blurb: For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . .

The novel follows the minutes and seconds after Leila's death, taking us back to her most tragic and treasured memories as she recalls the life slipping away from her.

This is a truly heartbreaking and intensely powerful story of life, death, love and identity. This is the first book I've read from the author and I adore her writing style. It is both haunting and emotive, like poetry sprawled all over the page.

Have you read this book? Let me know in the comments what your thoughts are!

Talk bookish to you soon,

Georgia x