HOW is it February already? This looks more like last week’s post than I’d hoped, but eh…stuff happens.
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 still working my way through the very amusing The Hero Interviews by Andi Ewington and just started listening to Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped by Annette Marie, Cris Dukehart (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
Yesterday, I finished Tiffany McDaniel’s On the Savage Side, a harrowing and beautiful book, and How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts on audio, which was not-at-all-harrowing and plenty of fun.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Silk Empress by Josef Matulich (still) and my next audiobook should be Underground by Kat Richardson, Mia Barron (Narrator).
How are you starting the month?
Allyson Johnsons
I finally finished “The Unwinding” by David Packer. A fine presentation on how our political situation got to where it is today, with capsule vignettes of Elizabeth Warren, Peter Thiel, Sam Walton, and a not-very-flattering view of the career of Joe Biden.
Also finished “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, a very amusing and eye-opening compilation of anecdotes by the enfant terrible of Los Alamos, Richard Feynman. Almost every chapter left me smiling, though occasionally a bit outraged.
And I finished “Ancestor Trouble” by Maud Newton, an exploration of Newton’s complicated family history, with a lot of solid information about earlier approaches to eugenics, genetic, and epigenetics. Good if you are interested in this sort of thing.
AND I finished “Billy Bathgate”, E.L. Doctorow’s exploration of the New York gangster world of Dutch Schultz, with cameos by Lucky Luciano and Thomas Dewey. Doctorow does this part-history, part fiction very well – it doesn’t come across as “historical fiction” a la Phillippa Gregory, but more a character study set in a particular period as in “Wolf Hall”.
Whew!
Now I am deep into “The Last Time She Died” by Zoe Sharp, which you recommended some time back. Really enjoying it, but I am perplexed: It is titled “A Blake and Byron Mystery”, as though there were a whole series based on the two main characters, but I peeked on Amazon and it says “Book 1 of 1” What kind of a series is that?
Also halfway through Isak Dinesen’s “7 Gothic Tales” – the first was really good, the next two left me a bit colder (they are all cold, though, set in frigid Scandinavia), but I am keeping on.
And plugging away at “The Roosevelt Myth”, which has replaced “The Unwinding” as my bedside reading.
Next? A friend sent me an Anne McCaffrey from her Dragons of Pern series which I used to like a lot and haven’t looked at for some years. I’ll probably relax with that.
HCNewton
Wow…that’s a lot to finish! You’ve been working on that Packer for a while, too. Must feel nice to have that behind you (as good as it sounds)
Still waiting on book 2 of the Byron and Blake series, too. Sharp’s website is quiet lately.