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 Dead Ground by M. W. Craven, and if I believed in an Id, mine would be screaming at me for taking time to do anything but read it for the next 200+ pages (like compiling this post). I’m also going through Hidden by Benedict Jacka, Gildard Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Rob Parker’s Till Morning is Nigh, probably the best of the bunch. I also finally finished Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Dog Eat Dog by David Rosenfelt (you have to wonder how he waited for the 22nd book to use this title) and my next audiobook should be Death’s Rival by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator) as I continue to revisit the Jane Yellowrock series in audio.
You reading anything good at the moment?
Allyson Johnson
Just finished reading “The Ringed Castle”, fifth in Dorothy Dunnett’s “Lymond Chronicles.”
Forging ahead with the last volume in the series, “Checkmate”. Reading great chunks, but the story has taken a dark turn, and I don’t think it’s going to end happily for our hero and heroine. That’s the trouble with historical novels, history keeps getting in the way of the happy ending.
Also still reading at “Pachinko” a story of a Korean bride in Japan during the runup to WWII. And “Steve Jobs”, Walter Isaacson’s factual, forthright biography of the tech titan. And doing a bit of reread with Jane Austen’s “Emma”, because I watched the Gwyneth Paltrow movie the other night and was checking out my impressions of the characters from the novel vs. the movie.
Next up: “The Vanishing Half” – a story of twin sisters who split up, one staying in the black world, the other passing for white. It’s a popular book; I was surprised when my number came up at the library as the waiting list seemed long.
Also a kind of sequel to Alexandre Dumas’s Musketeers trilogy, combining an unfinished novel with a novelette with the same characters written years earlier. It’s called “The Red Sphinx” and is over 800 pp long, so once I start it you may be hearing about it for awhile.