Between the Scylla of Tuesday and the Charybdis that is Thursday, we find ourselves at Wednesday, making it time for WWW Wednesday!
This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words—and shown to me by Aurore-Anne-Chehoke at Diary-of-a-black-city-girl.
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Easy enough, right?
I’m reading Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri, Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire (finally!) and am listening to Out of Range by C. J. Box, David Chandler (Narrator).
I just finished Jeffrey B. Burton’s The Finders and Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, MD and T. J. Mitchell with Tanya Eby (Narrator) on audio.
My next book should be Muzzled by David Rosenfelt and Captain’s Fury by Jim Butcher, Kate Reading (Narrator) on audiobook.
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)
allysonyj
Just finished reading “Disappearing Earth”, a National Book Award Finalist novel by Julia Phillips, about the disappearance of two girls from a town on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It’s a challenging read, but worth it, exploring issues of racial inequality and women’s constraints in an exotic location. See my Amazon review at https://www.amazon.com/review/R1IUTVUZGUF9N6/ref=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv
Currently reading “The Devil in the White City” by Eric Larson, about the great Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the serial killer who haunted it. It’s a rather odd mixture of history, engineering, architecture, and mass murder. It’s hard not to skip ahead to the juicy, grisly parts, but lingering on the pages about the challenges faced by the fair’s builders has its fascination too.
Planning to read “Hero of the Empire” by Candice Millard, a chronicle of Winston Churchill’s youthful adventures in the Boer War. Also in my stack: “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline, which I might not have picked up if it had not had a blurb on the cover quoting one of my favorite authors, Ann Packer. Onward!
HCNewton
Is that what the Larson book is about? It’s one of those covers I’ve seen everywhere and somehow never read a blurb for. Sounds pretty cool.
HCNewton
“Keeping track of the characters and their relationship is make even more difficult because the story is set on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the characters have Russian names involving patronymics and diminutive nicknames.”
maybe one to read with a notebook handy…