The last two weeks have basically been full of me staring at my laptop screen, unable to get words to come out. That’s an exaggeration of sorts, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. What’s worse, is that I’m excited about just about everything I’ve been trying to write about.
That’s one of the nice things about these WWW Wednesday posts, they require very little thought. Also, they’re fun to do apart from their ease. So, I”m going to give myself a little reprieve, schedule this and then catch some shut eye and try again tomorrow.
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 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino, because I’m more curious than I should be about his prose and am listening to Marked by Benedict Jacka, Gildart Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Paula de Fougerolles’s The Chronicles of Iona: Exile, a piece of historical fiction, and the fascinating Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Case of the Missing Firefly by Chris McDonald and my next audiobook should be The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Lesley Manville (Narrator).
What’ve you been reading this week?
Allyson Johnson
I just finished reading “Memoirs of Hadrian” by Marie Yourcenar, a very dense and philosophica read full of epigrams and thoughts eerily applicable from Roman times to ours – highly recommend, though it is NOT a quick skim.
Also just finished reading (or actually, re-reading) “Running Blind”, the fourth Jack Reacher thriller, and only middling good.
Am currently reading Milton’s “Paradise Lost” for a class. He emulates Homer and Virgil as far as epic form, and Lucifer is certainly the equal of Acilles for petulance.
Next I might start “The Book Thief”, which has been on my TBR shelf for a long time. Or maybe “Rising Sun, Falling Shadow” by Daniel Kalla, a tale of Jewish residents of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation in WWII.
HCNewton
I’ve had The Book Thief on my TBR for ages, too. Two copies of it, actually, thanks to gift givers 🙂