Wait, it’s July 28th already? I’m not ready for that in several ways–can we get a recount? A mulligan? A giant “Pause” button? Time for the last WWW Wednesday of July!
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 Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrave—nothing like a little time with the crew of Serenity—and am wrapping up Wisp of a Thing by Alex Bledsoe, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator) up on audiobook.
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What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Ian Shane’s In 10 Years—a wonderful read—and The Drifter by Nick Petrie, Stephen Mendel (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be All Together Now by Matthew Norman—which is what I said last week, but I got distracted—and my next audiobook is TBD.
What are you doing to wrap up the month?
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I just finished reading a shameless ripoff of “Jane Eyre” called “JANE”, with the tag line “What if Jane Eyre fell in love with a rock star?” That is the entire plot/characterization of this work. If Charlotte Bronte weren’t in the public domain, she should sue. Im not against the clever and even literary pastiche based on a classic novel, but this one had zero originality.
I also just finished “Unsettled”, Koonin’s challenge to climate change doom-sayers. His thesis is “Yes, the earth is warming, and yes, human activity is contributing. But it’s a small (low single digit percentage) contribution and since we don’t know how to control the weather or even know exactly how our Carbon affects the longterm trend, we should stop freaking out, stop proposing unrealistic goals like 0 use of fossil fuels, and work on adapting to the changes as we do our best to taper off the carbon. Makes pragmatic sense.
I am currently on book Seven of “the Aeneid”. Aeneas is something of a stick compared to Odysseus, Hector, Agamemnon and Achilles, and he certainly doesn’t do right by Dido (I never bought into that schtick about “I had not loved thee dear so much/ loved I not honor more.”) Also reading a collection of early short stories by Daphne duMaurier called “The Doll.” Eerie and downbeat, as if she had channeled Shirley Jackson.
Next I plan to read Ursula K LeGuin’s “Lavinia”, another case where an author takes a minor character from a classic and inflates her into a protagonist of her own book. Hope I like it as well as I liked Atwood’s “Penelopiad.” And I have on my TBR pile a recently re-discovered and translated sequel to “The Three Musketeers” by Alexander Dumas, called “The Red Sphinx.” It is a huge tome, so something fluffy might sneak in before it.
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I’ve been thinking about tackling the Musketeers (again, it’s been too long) and the sequels (I’ve always been curious). That Eyre retelling sounds dreadful (I’ve read a couple that weren’t bad, but that one seems like a let down)
Just wondering, do you have a preferred translation of Don Quixote?