I’ve said it a couple of times already this week, but I didn’t plan at all for SPAAW, and didn’t think I’d be able to participate this year. But I noticed that I did have a couple of Self-Published books on my August list, so I moved a couple of things around and this past week hasn’t looked like what I expected. And I think I’ll still be able to meet all the library due dates/personal deadlines that only I care about. Phew.
Time for 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’m reading/relishing the ARC of Bark to the Future by Spencer Quinn and am listening to On Eden Street by Peter Grainger, Gildart Jackson (Narrator) on audiobook, I’m enjoying the new vibe of the series, but missing the old one.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Harry Bingham’s The Deepest Grave, the latest/last(?) book in the Fiona Griffiths series, I don’t like knowing there’s not another mystery with her in the waiting. My latest audiobook was The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson, Davine Henry (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Dead Against Her by Melinda Leigh, which will get me caught up on the Bree Taggart series (there’s a downside to that, I have to wait for the next one!). My next audiobook should be True Dead by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam (Narrator)—which is a holdover from last week, I realized I could squeeze in one more SPAAW book if I shuffled things up a bit.
You reading anything good lately? Or not-good, but that you want to talk about?
Allyson Johnson
I am currently reading “Under the Banner of Heaven” a true-crime story by Jon Krikauer. Very thought- provoking. Also making no progress on Lawrence Durrell’s “Justine” or Mark Halperin’s “A Soldier of the Great War” despite good resolutions.
Instead of reading the above NP books, I picked up a Dick Francis crime novel that I hadn’t read before off my brother’s bookcase. “Second Wind” is not the best Francis, (the plot is so tangled as to be un-followable) but suitable for reading in a sleeping bag while camping.
I also finished Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927” , again not his best but still good for reading in short bursts, and the cast of characters (Al Capone, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, the Ku Klux Klan, Babe Ruth…) is unbeatable.
Oh, and I also reread Gene Stratton Porter’s classic “Girl of the Limberlost” and a very little known book from my childhood that I bought in a fit of nostalgia from ThriftBooks, “A Dozen and One” by Mary D. Brine. Always fascinating to read books which influenced me as a child. Elnora Comstock with her self-reliance and her butterflies holds up very well. Polly Peters and her sainted mother not so well, but as background Brine paints a vivid picture of the lives of “street Arabs” in NYC in the 1880’s.
Next, I have on the table “Through the Wrong End of the Telescope”, by Rabih Alemeddine, a tale about the Syrian refugee crisis told from the POV of a transgender lesbian (a book group selection – never would have picked it up otherwise) and a couple of other book group selections (I fell way behind while on vacation off the grid). The book group does keep me exploring new writers, but sometimes I just want to cuddle up with a familiar Nevil Shute, Agatha Chrisie, or Georgette Heyer.
HCNewton
Welcome back to the grid!
I read that Krakauer not long after it came out–nice to see it getting attention now. Sometimes adaptations pay off 🙂
Suitable for a sleeping bag is one of the pithiest descriptions of a book I can think of–and tells you exactly all you need to know.