We are in the backstretch of this week, the last of April, and I keep finding myself making plans for June and July, as if May doesn’t even exist. This is a little ironic, because I’ve got a lot of commitments lined up for May. Maybe it’s because I have so much of the month already scheduled that I can’t focus on it. I was going somewhere when I started this paragraph, and I can’t remember where it was. Guess that means that it’s time to get on with the WWW Wednesday of it all.
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 Of Claws and Fangs: Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood by Faith Hunter for a Book Tour next week and am listening to Taming Demons for Beginners by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator) on audiobook (if I wasn’t really curious about other parts of this series, I’m not sure I’d stick it out—this protagonist is doing nothing but making foolish/stupid moves—I have to pause occasionally just to growl at her).
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished K.J. Parker’s surprising Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and the classic The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, Andy Serkis (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Knave of Secrets by Alex Livingston—also for a Book Tour next week—and my next audiobook should be Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts by Kate Racculia, Lauren Fortgang (Narrator)—which has been on my TBR forever, and I just stumbled onto the audiobook. Yay!
What about you? Anything good?
Allyson y Johnson
I finally finished “Corelli’s Mandolin”! It took me two years, but the last 100 pages were a terrific culmination of all that had gone before. I was happy to read on Amazon that I was not the only reader who required several starts to get going, before falling in love with the book.
I also reread Anne Tyler’s “Back When We Were Grownups.” I didn’t mean it to be a reread, but it seemed only vaguely familiar until I got to page 273 of 279 where a single line rang a bell – a line that had stuck with me and comforted me in an odd way for some years. Does that make it a bad book because it was so forgettable, or a good book because of the one line that stuck?
I am currently reading “Why Don’t you go back where you came from?” by Wajahat Ali, a darkly funny account of what it is like to be brown with an unusual name in America. Also plugging away at Paul Theroux’s “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star”, a much less-sour spirited tale of travel over much the same route as “The Great Railway Bazaar”.
Next… Hmmm. Maybe “Troy Chimneys”, a modern riff on the Regency memoir, which was well reviewed in WSJ. I have it from the library, and it looks interesting.
HCNewton
Troy Chimneys is just a great title.
Allyson y Johnson
The author (Margaret Kennedy) explains that Troy Chimneys is the name of an estate at the place where three roads meet; the name is a corruption of the French “trois chemins”