Time for WWW Wednesday, that lovely part of the week where I pretend to be organized.
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 Light Years From Home by Mike Chen and am listening to The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein, Andy Serkis (Narrator) on audiobook—it’s so long, I fully expect to see it in this spot next week, too.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished a pair of hard-boiled novels: The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide and Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book will be the next Stonebridge Mystery, All At Sea by Chris McDonald—so you know I’m eager to dive in. My next audiobook should be Quest by A.J. Ponder, Benjamin Fifes (Narrator), a book I literally remember nothing about, so that should lead to a surprise or two.
How about you?
Allyson Y Johnson
I just finished reading “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan – a modern tale of adventure and finding oneself reminiscent of “Huckleberry Finn”. The protagonist is a young black boy enslaved in Barbados in 1830, who is helped to escape by an eccentric inventor/naturalist, and ends up traveling the globe hoping to find out what freedom really means.
I also started and finished Kent Haruf’s wonderfully written terse portrait of a scoundrel, “Where You Once Belonged.” Haruf simply can’t write a bad sentence, much less a bad book.
I’m currently reading “Go Tell the Bees I’m Gone”, the latest tome in Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” saga. This book jumped the queue when my hold request unexpectedly made its way to the top of the wait list at my local library. Weighing in at over 800 pages, I expect this will take me awhile to finish.
Next I will take another crack at Lawrence Durell’s “Justine” – one of those books I feel I ought to read, if for no other reason than that my son loves Durell, and it will give us some common ground.
HCNewton
The Haruf and Edugyan books look good…really good.