Is it already time for the last WWW Wednesday of January? I’m not kidding, I’m having a hard time believing that. Also, I noticed as I was putting this post together, I’d been using 2020 on all my WWW Wednesdays this month. It’s like when we all used checks to pay for everything, I guess.
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 an atypical Urban Fantasy, White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton, and am listening to the more typical UF, Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowal (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Seanan McGuire’s otherworldly Across the Green Grass Fields and the goofy Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby (this is the third time I’ve checked it out from the Library and I will read it this time) and Game of Cages by Harry Connolly, Daniel Thomas May (Narrator) on audiobook (I’m looking forward to getting back to this world).
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)
wittysarcasticbookclub
I just finished White Trash Warlock! I’m excited to read your review.
HCNewton
Am on the verge of finishing myself…curious about what I’m going to say, too. 🙂 Looking forward to your take.
Allyson Johnson
I just finished reading “the Iliad”! What a violent book! Achilles doesn’t just spear someone, he spears him in the eye so the eyeball falls out and dangles and the spear point comes out the back of his head with brains and blood everywhere. No wonder we read only a summary in my 9th grade World Lit class – this would definitely be an R-rated selection.
In between the violence there are lovely lyrical descriptions of ordinary life, and some humourous byplay amongst the gods watching the action from Olympus
Don’t waste your time on a prose version. Go for the Fagles translation, which manages to capture some of the swing and driver of Homer’s hexameters.
I am currently almost finished with “The Disorderly Knights”, the third volume of Dorothy Dunnett’s “The Lymond Chronicles”. I doubt I’ll make it through volumes 4-6. Yet this series has a huge fan base, and certainly has an interesting point of view on the Scotch/English conflicts in the days of the Infant Mary Queen of Scots.
I have just started “The Color of Law”, a depressing but worthy exploration of how the Federal government through rules and regulations and grants actively promoted segretation not only in the South but across the country.
Next I plan to read “The Odyssey”, the Fagles translation. And then Margaret Atwood’s “Penelopiad”. and maybe ” Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic” by Daniel Mendelsohn. (Do you see a trend here?)
HCNewton
great…I just deleted my own reply. Not a big loss, but it’s the principle.
The Color of Law…I’ve heard a little about that. Sounds like a disturbing and infuriating read.
You got exposed to the Iliad in Ninth Grade? I’m a little jealous. Sure, I think we talked about it in very vague terms (and more likely in a history/world culture class than in Lit), but it wasn’t until University that I got introduced to Homer’s tale of blood, guts, and hubris.