I’m writing from a refreshingly chilly hotel 607 miles south(ish) from home, in Cedar City, UT. The trip is making things a little strange on the reading front (and non-existent on the audiobook front)–but I still think I have enough fodder for July’s first 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 Know Your Rites by Andy Redsmith (a book I meant to read two years ago) and the audiobook A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones, Lorelei King (Narrator) is providing our road trip entertainment.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Liam Perrin’s Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights and last week I wrapped up Blood Trade by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Good Byline by Jill Orr (another book I meant to read two years ago) and if we have time on the return trip, we’ll listen to An Accidental Death by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson (Narrator), because my wife should meet DC Smith–otherwise, I have no idea what I’m doing next.
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments! (no, really, do it!)
Allyson Johnson
I just finished reading Karen Harper’s “the Dry”, set in drought-stricken Australia with a brutal murder-suicide in the foreground, a suicide in the back-ground, and the threat of wildfire always hovering, as Australian Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his hometown. Was it suicide or was it murder, that killed his girlfriend Ella all those years ago, and was it suicide or murder that killed his best friend Luke along with Luke’s wife and son last week?
After all that heat and violence, I defaulted to one of my comfort books, also set in Australia, “The Far Country ]” by Nevil Shute. What a contrast! Though there is still a threat of wildfire on the horizon, this novel set in post WWII England and Australia is about a number of thoroughly nice people doing their best to do the right thing. Not a mean bone in anyone’s body, an exploration of the past that turns up no hidden scandal or violence, and a satisfying love story driving it all.
I am currently still reading Lin’s “Pachinko”, a saga about a Korean bride in Japan, and Walter Isaacson’s biography, “Steve Jobs”, a straight-forward narrative which is fun for me as Jobs lived in my neighborhood, knew people I knew, and was part of the fabric of my early career.
In my stack of nexts are “The Vanishing Half” by Bret Bennet, “The Aeneid”, and Koonin’s “Unsettled”, which challenges the current conventional wisdom about climate change. (every so often I have to check out alternate points of view.)