Here on the Eve of Gluttony Day (or whatever we’re calling it this year), I’m going to take a moment and see to this week’s 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 Dead Lions by Mick Herron (and spending a good deal of time berating myself for putting this off for so long) and am listening to The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays, George Newbern (Narrator) on audiobook (and am wondering if it’s worth the time).
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Darynda Jones’ A Hard Day for a Hangover—which is as fun as its predecessors—and Druid Vices and a Vodka by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator) on audio—and that ending really surprised me.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Wistful Ascending by JCM Berne for a tour next week and my next audiobook should be The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar to raise my blood pressure (and give me a few chuckles).
Are you especially thankful for any reads this week? (or are you suffering through a turkey?)
Allyson Johnson
I’m currently reading Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamosov” and George Packard”The Unwinding.” Also picked up MFK Fisher’s memoir, “Long Ago in France” as a light alternative.
Just finished (Hooray!) T. C. Boyle’s “Tortilla Curtain”, a very dark satiric take on white complacency and illegal immigration. Also breezed through Bo Caldwell’s “City of Tranquil Light” – another take on China through Western eyes in the first half of the 20th century, more spiritually oriented than her earlier “Distant Land of my Father.”
Next – maybe another Julian Barnes. Maybe one of several books recommended by friends. (I’ve been trying to find “The Last Time She Died” ever since you recommended it, but no luck at local libraries, and I’m cheap.) Maybe “All the Light We Cannot See”, which I’ve been threatening to read for months.
Peter Sams
On 22 July 2022 Mick Herron’s sardonic spy thriller series called Slough House deservedly won him the Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year award. If Jackson Lamb had won it he’d have had a huge hangover this morning but let’s not dwell on what that might have sounded or smelt like.
Both Mick Herron’s Slough House series and Bill Fairclough’s Burlington Files series of espionage thrillers were initially rejected by risk averse publishers who probably didn’t think espionage existed unless it was fictional and created by Ian Fleming or David Cornwell. It is therefore a genuine pleasure to see an anti-Bond anti-establishment novelist achieving immortality in Masham. Let’s hope Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone fact based spy thriller in The Burlington Files series, follow in the Slow Horses’ hoof prints!