It’s time for WWW Wednesday already? I think I said something like this a couple of weeks ago, but the third 3-day weekend in 6 weeks is really messing with me. I’m glad we get a couple of months without one. I don’t remember being this discombobulated by an extra day off as I have with the last two. Okay then, let’s get this taken care of, try to get me on some more solid footing.
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 Botanist by M.W. Craven (and am having a really hard time putting it down) and I just started listening to My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett, Katherine Parkinson (Narrator) on audiobook. Yeah, last week, I said it was going to be my next one—but between the holiday and the way that Harry Dresden trumps anything else for me…
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age by Emmy J. Favilla—which was amusing, educational, and (for some) provocative. Yesterday, I listened to the new Dresden Files novella The Law by Jim Butcher on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the collection Short Tails by Spencer Quinn and my next audiobook should be Long Lost by Linda Castillo, Kathleen McInerney (Narrator), another novella. I seem to be hitting some quick reads at the moment (maybe my brain is making up for the week it took me to get through Don Winslow)
Tell me what you’re reading!
Allyson y Johnson
I just gave up on reading “The Cat who Walks Through Walls” one of the later Robert Heinlein efforts written while he was being drugged for some malady – I forget what. A plotless muddle of old-man sexual fantasies. Sad to read Heinlein in decline. Did not finish.
I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s “Summer: America in 1927.” Workmanlike, eminently readable, detail-packed portrait of a space in our history when a lot was happening and puts some perspective on Summer: 2021. Also started “The Wrong End of the Telescope” by Rabih Alameddine. It is narrated from the POV of a transgender lesbian, but so far that doesn’t seem to matter to the story. (Confession: I had to go on Wikipedia to find out the difference between a transgender lesbian and a cross-dressing male – does that make me a dinosaur?) And also “Under the Banner of Heaven” by Jon Krakauer, because I got so much out of his “Into the Wild” and “Into Thin Air” and this has been on my bookshelf un-noticed for a long time – I think one of my sons put it there.
Next I am going to go off grid for a week and take with me only Mark Halperin’s “A Soldier of the Great War.”
HCNewton
I remember reading that Heinlein in my teens and couldn’t understand why all the fuss was made about him–am thinking I’d have given up on it today, too 🙂
That Bryson book sounds good.
Enjoy time off the grid!