I had a week away from this post (which is good, because I read enough that it’d have been tricky to post this), but now I’m back how and it’s 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 the tribute to post-NIrvana grunge Grenade Bouquets by Lee Matthew Goldberg and am listening to the memoir Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald (Narrator) on audiobook (yeah, I feel like jumping on a bandwagon after his death, which is probably why my library just bought it).
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Nick Petrie’s Tear it Down and had a blast with it. Listening to A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones, Lorelei King (Narrator) on audio last week was plenty of fun, too.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Abandon All Hope by Scott Spires and my next audiobook should be my monthly Jane Yellowrock check-in, Dark Heir by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator).
Are you reading/listening to anything good at the moment?
Allyson Johnson
Just read Steve Martin’s “Shopgirl”, a slender novella with a bittersweet flavor. Wonder if it would have been published were it not for his TV and Movie career. Also just re-read Anthony Trollope’s “Alice Dugdale”, an even more slender novella, which gives you a lot of the flavor of Trollope in a sort of Reader’s Digest condensed version. I read it as a comfortable change from the other books I’m currently reading, which include
“Rising Sun, Falling Shadow” by Daniel Kalla, a (so far) depressing book about the hard lot of Jews in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded with their Nazi pals. I may not finish this one.
“Stones for Ibarra”,by Harriet Doerr, a beautifully written but depressing book about the hard lot of Mexican peasants, told by a protagonist whose husband is dying of leukemia.
“Paradise Lost” by John Milton, a beautifully written but depressing poem about Satan invading the Garden of Eden – you know this is not going to end well either.
Next I’ll probably read “The Book Thief”, which has been on my TBR shelf for too long. I’m afraid it’s going to be another depressing book.
HCNewton
I remember liking Shopgirl but not enough to want to read his novel. I’m glad Martin wants to try other things, but I’m just not on board with it.
Yeah, quite a run of depressing work…