Weekend Blog Hops - 23 November 2018

It's the weekend once more. That means it's time for my book-blogger hopping.

You meet an interesting person at a club. Suddenly, they start acting as if they're a character in a novel you've read, and they are firmly convinced that they ARE that character. First, which character is it, and second, how do you react?

Loki from my own The Ragnarök Chronicles. Naturally, I am stunned for a moment, but then I pull myself together and stick with him, to ensure I'm the one leaving on his arm at the end of the night. *wink*
 



Opening sentence:
Face down on the hotel linen, the body.


 




From page 56:
I try to sit up, but I can't move my arm or my leg, even my head is pinned.


   

My Current Read
Virtuoso
Yelena Moskovich

For the first ten years of her life, Jana was a simple Czech girl, a watercolour. Her days were a clock run by the Czechoslovakian State Security, snapping hidden photos in their plainclothes. Much fervent artwork was created: Man Subverting Republic (Black and White), Woman Distributing (Tryptic). Man and Woman Organizing (Reprint).

Jana was a watercolour, until the raven-haired girl Zorka came. 

Jana, now an interpreter in Paris, hasn't seen Zorka in a decade.
Aimée is in Paris too, happily married and trying to get into her hotel room. On the other side of the door is her wife Dominique, face down on the hotel linen, one hand drooping off the side of the bed, fingers curled in, wedding ring white gold like an eye frozen mid-wink.

A body now, no longer a person.

As Aimée and Jana's stories slowly circle through time and place, they lead inexorably together...

Written with the dramatic tension of a Euripides tragedy, the dreamlike quality of a David Lynch film and the imagination of a unique talent, Yelena Moskovich's Virtuoso is an audacious, mesmerising novel of love, desire, identity and belonging.