I’ve had to stop trying on a couple of posts for today, they’re just going to take more work than I’m ready for. But I can check in with a WWW Wednesday, which I find interesting (both to put together and to read other people’s), I hope you do, too—’cuz that’s all I’ve got in me today.
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 The Bounty by Janet Evanovich with Steve Hamilton (unless it’s dramatically better than the previous novel—a very low bar—this will be my last Fox & O’Hare book) and am continuing my resisting of the Alex Verus series with Chosen by Benedit Jacka, Gildart Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished the second Ben Bracken thriller, Rob Parker’s Morte Point and Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator) on audio, the first in a promising UF series.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the 90s throwback Runaway Train by Lee Matthew Goldberg and my next audiobook should be The Authorities by Scott Meyer, Luke Daniels (Narrator)—I’m a little nervous about Meyer outside of Magic 2.0, but I know with Daniels at least it’ll be a good listen.
What about you, what are your current/recent/ reads?
Allyson Johnson
I just finished [finally!] reading “Van Gogh: The Life” by Stephen Naifeh and G. W. Smith. More than I ever wanted to know about my favorite artist. I also finished “The Power and the Glory” by Graham Greene – a classic tale of authoritarian self-righteousness vs faith. And I slipped in for fun a classic Agatha Christie, “Cat Among the Pigeons”, an almost perfect British cozy set in a girls’ boarding school.
I Decided Not to Finish Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions.” I admired/enjoyed his “Slaughterhouse Five” and “Cat’s Cradle”, but this book, despite many bits of on-target social satire, was so sour-spirited that thought I had invested about 50 pages I couldn’t keep at it.
A couple of weeks ago when you were wondering how to follow up “Fridays with the Foundling”, I suggested you take on Anthony Trollope’s “Palliser Novels” as a worthy successor. Of course, that led me to pick up the first volume, “Can You Forgive Her?” just to refresh my memory, and now i am halfway through before I knew it.
And I just started “Pachinko”, a National Book Award finalist from a few years back, about a Korean girl who marries into a Japanese family and goes to live in Japan (I think – I’ve barely gotten to the marriage yet.) It’s another thick book, but so far I am really liking it.
Not sure what’s next. I have so many books on my Partly Read or Want to Read shelf.