I have not been able to finish a draft of anything this week, and it’s getting on my nerves. So, before I go guzzle a couple of gallons of inspiration (read: coffee), let’s take care of this week’s WWW.
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?
Later today, I’m going to start reading Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen and I’m listening to Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Tim Gerard Reynolds (Narrator) on audiobook. The last book in the saga comes out this summer, and I’m getting excited about it—but I know myself well enough that I won’t take the time to re-read the books and have all these libro.fm credits laying around…
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished K.R.R. Lockhaven’s The Foundling, the Heist, and the Volcano. Lockhaven just keeps getting better. I also just finished Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano, Angela Dawe on audio, Cosimano is leaning into the comedy more and I think I like it.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons) by Quenby Olson , which seemingly everyone I know on Twitter has told me to read. My next audiobook should be Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire, Ray Porter (Narrator)—I’m going to need the brightness of the InCryptid series after the brutality of Red Rising.
What about you?
Allyson Johnson
Currently reading Larry McMurtry’s “Horseman, Pass By” in preparation for a pilgrimage to Archer City Texas next month. Also 5/7th of the way through Isak Dinesen’s “Seven Gothic Tales”. And I took another whack at Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamasov” on the train yesterday. (No internet access, which is why this comment is late.) And “The Roosevelt Myth” got another few pages read last night.
I finished “Siam – or The Woman who Shot a Man” by Lisa Tuck, a short novel about a young naive bride taken to Bangkok during the Vietnamese war by her military-consultant husband. Sex, desire, mystery, intercultural clashes – all in less than 200 pages. Good stuff. And I don’t think I mentioned re-reading Anne McCaffrey’s “Nerilka’s Story”. Suffice it to say that I didn’t realize I had already read it a few years back until I went to post a review on Amazon. That forgettable.
Next I will read Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” as I promised to discuss it with my neighbor.
HCNewton
I’ve always meant to read more McMurtry…how is that one?
Allyson Johnson
OMG I love Larry McMurtry. “Horseman Pass By” was his first real success, and was made into the movie “Hud” which helped establish Paul Newman as more than just a pretty face. The novel is tougher than the movie (though I haven’t seen the movie in years – maybe should revisit). It is the first of a series of novels McMurtry wrote about his home town of Archer City (called “Thalia” in the novels). “The Last Picture Show”, also made into a fine movie, is another in this series. McMurtry is so much more than just “Lonesome Dove” and its sequels.
HCNewton
Oh, I don’t think I knew that Last Picture Show was part of a series (I maybe read a sequel, though…it was so long ago, I can’t be sure). I know I read Last Picture Show, Anything for Billy, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (but nothing else in that series), and one or two others I can’t remember the titles.
I never got around to Lonesome Dove, etc. Mostly because my family got sooooooo into it when it came out, and I was too busy being rebellious.
I’m going down a Goodreads rabbithole on McMurtry now, wonder what my TBR is going to look like by the end of the day.