Didn’t I just do one of these two days ago? I guess not. Thankfully, there’s been some movement here and the books have done a better job of changing than they have lately. Hope I can keep that up!
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 follow-up to last year’s Pay Dirt Road, Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen, and am having a blast listening to All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (Narrator) on audiobook. I remembered it being great, but not this great.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Seanan McGuire’s Backpacking Through Bedlam and I finally bit the bullet and tried All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Kevin R. Free (Narrator) on audio (and then wondered why I waited).
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian (I’m already getting excited about the food) and my next audiobook should be The Widower’s Two-Step by Rick Riordan, Tom Stechschulte (Narrator).
How are you kicking off April?
RTSlaywood
as always, great suggestions
HCNewton
Thanks, RT!
allyson johnson
I finally finished reading Jonathan Franzen’s satirical “The Corrections.” It was a roller-coaster read. The character who starts out despicable turns out well; the character who starts out stable and reliable turns out despicable, the Good Daughter behaves badly in her secret life, the Good Wife is a bitch when she gets a chance. Some parts were laugh-out-loud ridiculous/funny; other parts were oh-god-can’t- I- skip-a-few-pages? tedious and dark. I did find myself identifying much too closely with the Mother, and recognizing all too easily the Father. A very self-consciously CLEVER book.
As an antidode, I polished off ” Death in the Stocks” an old-fashioned mystery by Georgette Heyer, taking a break from her Regency Romances. (With the success of the “Knives Out” movies, maybe not so old-fashioned.) Obnoxious rich guy gets murdered, half the world has a motive, no one has an alibi.
Currently not reading anything, just catching up on magazines and other stuff that accumulated while I was on vacation.
Next I plan to read “Destiny of the Republic” by Candice Millard, about the murder of James Garfield, and also to read John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”. Have you ever read that? – seems it would be right up your alley.
HCNewton
“Obnoxious rich guy gets murdered, half the world has a motive, no one has an alibi.” sounds about perfect (and, yeah, very Knives Out-ish)
That Franzen summary feels so right.
I’ve read Bunyan a few times. I can’t say I’m of two minds about it, more like six or seven. Most of them positive, just in very different ways 🙂