It’s 9/9—or if you prefer the European convention, it’s 9/9 (I keep hearing hear Sgt. Terry Jeffords shout the name of his precinct in my mind as I write that date). Either way, 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?
What are you currently reading?
I’m reading A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire and am listening to Child of Fire by Harry Connolly, Daniel Thomas May (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Nick Kolakowski’s Rattlesnake Rodeo and My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows with narration by Sophie Amoss on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson on audiobook.
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (c’mon, you know you want to…)
samfsm
Killing Frost was so good and had such a surprise ending, I hope you love it! Happy reading 🙂
Mwww: https://samsbeachreads.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/www-wednesday-september-9-2020/
HCNewton
I’ve gotta tell you, that makes me nervous about the surprise 🙂
Bookstooge
I just finished up another VSI book, on Freemasonry. am currently reading Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 and have Dombey and Son on tap next…
HCNewton
(I feel so uneducated, I had to look up Dombey and Son…)
Bookstooge
Sorry. That was my Dickens fanboy showing. Usually I try to include the author to make it more obvious 😀
HCNewton
Dickens is one of those you shouldn’t have to mention the name of.
allysonyj
I just finished reading “Shane”, the Western classic which sparked the Western classic movie. Beautifully written, it deserves its place in our literary history. Jack Schaefer’s writing is as lean, fluid, and purposeful as his title character and he has no master when it comes to building tension. Use of a young boy as first person narrator is as perfect as is Harper Lee’s use of Scout as narrator of “Mockingbird”.
I am currently re-reading M.M. Kaye’s classic historical novel of India, “The Far Pavilions.” At 1189 paperback pages it is not for the fans of flash fiction, but it is one of those page-turners which plunges you right into the world of the British Raj with a beginning evocative of Kipling’s “Kim” and a wonderfully romantic duo as leads.
I should be reading but can’t make myself get past page 20 of Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” about a boarding reform school for Negro boys in Jim Crow era Florida. The protagonist is a Good Person, and it is clear that Very Bad Things are going to happen to him. I get a cold feeling in the pit of my stomach with every next sentence I read, especially as I was brought up by outsider parents in the Jim Crow South. Since I am currently in the middle of Covid-19 lockdown, with widlfires blazing out of control at all four points of the compass around me, and air that is hazardous to breath, what I need is ESCAPE not harsh reality.
Next… dunno. I still have 781 pages of M.M.Kaye to curl up with.
HCNewton
“The protagonist is a Good Person, and it is clear that Very Bad Things are going to happen to him. I get a cold feeling in the pit of my stomach with every next sentence I read” I both hate and love that feeling.
I didn’t know Shane was a novel looks pretty good (I’ve never seen the movie, either_