I’m very glad that the U.S. is now celebrating Juneteenth, but I tell you what, that day off is messing with me. I did manage to get some good reading in over the weekend, but still feel like I’m out of sync with reality. Anyway, let’s tackle this WWW Wednesday, and see if that helps calibrate my mind.*
*Narrator: It won’t.
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 Movieland by Lee Goldberg—it’s so good to be back in Eve Ronin’s world—and I’m wrapping up Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston, Imani Parks (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished David Rosenfelt’s predictably fun Holy Chow, K.B. Jensen’s very strange Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, and We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Two of my most anticipated 2022 releases arrived at my house yesterday (The Botanist by M.W. Craven and The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza), and I’m beyond tempted to throw out my carefully (for me) constructed plan and dive into them. I’m pretty sure I won’t do that, but you never know. My next book should be The Border by Don Winslow, it’s been a week and a half since I read a paper book—that’ll be a nice change—even if this thing is intimidating. My next audiobook should be a quick return trip to Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson, George Guidall (Narrator).
What are you reading here in the first few (official) days of Summer?
Allyson y Johnson
I am re-reading “My Name is Lucy Barton” by Elizabeth Strout, staring at Mark Helprin’s “A Soldier of the Great War” (259 pages in and still not quite hooked), enjoying “Hot Time in the Old Town” about the heat wave in NYC in 1896 that killed almost 1500 people and made Teddy Roosevelt into a progressive, and on my bedside table dipping into “Oracle Bones” by Peter Kessler, my favorite commentator on modern China.
I tried to read “Hot Time” , a mystery set in NYC 1896 during the heat wave, but gave it up after 30 pages – not well written, cardboard historical figures lifted from Wikipedia. But going to Amazon to write a review I found the above non-fiction by Edward Kohn that is much better – serendipity!
I finished Louise Erdich’s fine mish-mash of genres “The Sentence” – part mystery, part social commentary, part love story, part family drama, set in a haunted bookstore staffed by and specializing in literature by Indigienous Americans. I also finished Maeve Binchy’s short story collection “The Return Jouney”, a kind of back-to-the-pre-feminist 50’s experience. And I re-read Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” just because it called to me from my bookshelf.
HCNewton
I hadn’t read anything about The Sentence for some reason until now…that looks like it could be really good. Ditto for Hot Time in the Old Town.