It’s June 1, and what better way to step into the month than with a WWW Wednesday? These posts are me at my most organized and structured, and it feels really nice to be that way on June 1. A feeling that will last until…maybe 9 pm?
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 coming-of-age novel, Dirt Road Home by Alexander Nader, and I’m listening to Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, Rebecca Lowman (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Joanne Jackson’s A Snake in the Raspberry Patch, a tale of small-town Canadian crime. I also just finished the third faux-True Crime, A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Crazy in Poughkeepsie by Daniel Pinkwater, which promises to be a burst of oddness and light, and my next audiobook should be Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg, Nicol Zanzarella (Narrator).
How are you kicking off the Summer?
Allyson y Johnson
I am currently reading “March” by Geraldine Brooks, a story set during the Civil War, and “A Soldier of the Great War” by Mark Halperin, set in and after WW1.
Next I plan to read “All the Light we Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, set during WWII.
I just finished reading “The Transit of Venus”, by Shirly Hazzard. which is NOT set in a period of war, but in the relatively tranquil period between 1950 and 1980 , mostly in Britain. I also tried reading a novel by Danielle Steele, “Moral Compass”, because she has written and published maybe 50 novels and I thought I should try one. Got maybe ten pages in and gave it up – too many characters, and terribly out of date for current attitudes. I guess I should have started reading her sooner.
As an antidote to all that war, I’m slowly rereading Anthony Trollope’s “Dr. Thorne.” (Slowly is the only way to read Trollope – a little bit each night from my bedside table.) When I get tired of headlines about shootings and atrocities, Trollope is a comfort.
HCNewton
Hat’s off to you for trying Steele. Don’t think I’d be that brave.
I’ve thought about All the Light, but Doerr’s a local and it just seems like I’ve been beaten around the head about reading the book. Which is stupid. But, that’s where I am