I don’t know how things are where you are, but we’ve had “third winter” hit here this week–a lot of cold and a lot of much-needed rain (not enough by any means, but that’s a whole different post). It’s good reading weather, though, so I’ll take it. But enough blather, why don’t we see what’s going on on this 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’ve got two print works running at the moment: the unexpectedly fun, Blessed Are the Bank Robbers: The True Adventures of an Evangelical Outlaw by Chas Smith, and the newest adventure of Peter Grant and The Folly, Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch. I’m also listening to How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question written and narratoed by Michael Schur (with Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Marc Evan Jackson, Jameela Jamil and Todd May) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished A. Lee Martinez by Constance Verity Destroys the Universe (and will hopefully get a post about that up anytime now) and Meat is Murder by Chris McDonald, Stephen Armstrong (Narrator) on audio.
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What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger and my next audiobook should be Force of Nature by C. J. Box, David Chandler (Narrator).
How are you spending the days before the dreaded April 15th?
Allyson y Johnson
I am currently reading “The Binding Chair” by Kathryn Harrison, beautifully written story of a Chinese girl’s life in the last years of foot binding. I was afraid it would be another “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” but Harrison is a better writer and evokes the horror of foot binding without letting it take over the book.
I just finished George Plimpton’s sendup of Major League Baseball, “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch” – What if a Tibetan apprentice monk using tantric mind control could throw a baseball at 170mph? Plimpton has a lot of fun with this elaboration of an article he wrote in 1985 for an April Fool’s issue of Sports Illustrated.
Next I AM GOING TO FINISH “Corelli’s Mandolin”. I swear I will. I am committed. I will not allow myself to be distracted. I WILL DO IT even though it looks like a harrowing ending is in store.
HCNewton
That Plimpton book sounds like a hoot!
I understand the impulse to get distracted by something when a harrowing ending is nigh–hope you can persevere.