I’ve been trying to get something posted every day this week about the upcoming Robert Crais novel, Racing the Light, and keep failing. Despite being excited about the book, when it comes time to write, I just stare at the screen for a bit. So, that’s how my week’s going. What about you?
I’m going to take a quick break from wringing my gray matter for whatever droplets I can to share this WWW Wednesday because it’s Wednesday, and that’s what we do around here.
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 Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman, which is at least as entertaining as the previous books in the series, and am listening to Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian by Ellen Jovin (Narrator) on audiobook, which is almost as entertaining as it thinks it is.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Lyndsay Faye’s Jane Steele (yes, I finally read it!) and Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music by Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch on audio, which I should probably get on paper so I can refer to it.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the second Booking Agents novel, Flight Risk by Cherie Priest (which is what I said last week, but I think I mean it this time) and my next audiobook should be the latest Magic 2.0 book, The Vexed Generation by Scott Meyer, Luke Daniels (Narrator).
Hit me with your Three W’s in the comments!
Allyson Y Johnson
I am still working on Dostoevski’s “The Brothers Karamosov”, Packer’s “The Unwinding”, and T.C. Boyle’s “Tortilla Curtain.” And I started Kim Robinson’s “The Ministry of the Future”, which is classified as science fiction. It has plenty of science, but no space adventure or aliens, and I will have my brain opened a bit by the time I finish it.
I gave myself a break with an umpteenth re-read of Josephine Tey’s “Brat Farrar”. I’m a sucker for books about horses, twins, and long-unsolved mysteries – this one hits all my sweet spots. I also breezed through “Who Do You Think You Are”, a how-to book for genealogists which I guess I’ll keep around for reference. And I finished Julian Barnes’ “A Short History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, ” which I didn’t like as well as his “Sense of an Ending”, but, like “Sense”, the more I think about it, the more there is to think about.
Next I might sneak in a reread of Dorothy Sayers’ “Gaudy Night,” which I found on the book cart, or dive into “All the Light We Cannot See.”
HCNewton
Wow, that’s a lot of not-light reading at once. Good reading, I’m sure, but that’s a lot.
I don’t know anything about that Barnes book, but that’s a great title.