What, already? Another Wednesday? July is speeding by. Guess it’s 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 Venators: Legends Rise by Devri Walls and am listening to The Monster in the Hollows by Andrew Peterson (narrated by the author).
I just finished Wesley Parker’s Coffee and Condolences and Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson, George Guidall (Narrator) on audio.
My next book should be The Revelators by Ace Atkins (assuming it’s available at my Library in time), or it’ll be Betty by Tiffany McDaniel and Dark Jones by Alex Bledsoe, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator) on audiobook.
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)
Allyson Johnson
I just finished reading Jacqueline Woodson’s “Red at the Bone”, a short multi-generational portrait of a black family, ranging ambitiously over almost a century. Woodson is an award-winning writer of young adult fiction: this book is classified as adult (maybe because of a lesbian interlude?) but retains much of the charm and intimacy of her earlier YA work. There are some plot threads and historical interventions that seem jarring and even irrelevant, though. three stars
I am just starting Mark Halperin’s “A Soldier of the Great War”, recommended by my son. I’m only a few dozen pages into it but I’m liking it a lot so far, which is good, as it is a monstrous (792 pp, no pix!) tome.
I’ll probably be reading Halperin for quite a while, so not planning beyond that.
HCNewton
I want to say I saw an interview with Woodson about this book, and shifting from YA. Didn’t seem to be my kind of thing, but I found her discussion about it interesting.