Hey, it’s the first day of Summer, an oddly cool one around here. The change of seasoned doesn’t impact my lifestyle too much–it just means a different kind of weather I’m avoiding by being inside most of the time. I mean, as long as there’s a functioning Air Conditioner and/or heater.
Wow, this might be my dullest opening yet. I’d best move right along to the 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 wrapping up reading Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air by Jackson Ford and just started listening to Posthumous Education by Drew Hayes, Kirby Heyborne (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished a couple of mixed bags: Jon Rance’s The Worst Man and Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes, narrated by Neil Patrick Harris and Simon Vance on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon—I hope it turns out half as amusing as it sounds because I’m going to need something lighter to help me deal with my next audiobook, Dark Age by Pierce Brown narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton & Rendah Heywood.
How are you kicking off the summer?
Allyson Johnson
I am currently re-reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Eight Cousins” as a respite from too much messagey reading. I am also still working one story at a time at Nobel Prize Wineer Nadine Gortimer’s collection of short stories, “Jump”. (She deserves the prize; each story is terrific). I am also reading, one essay at a time, Ann Patchett’s collection “These Precious Days” which is so charming and relevant to my life and situation it makes my toes curl. And I just started David Mendelsohns search for his murdered relatives, “The Lost.”
I just finished “Her Honor”, by LaDoris Cordell, a memoir of her life as the first black woman judge in California. The anecdotes are well-related, and her conclusions about what is broken in our judiciary and how to fix it are very thought-provoking.
I also finished “I am the Cheese”, which I found fascinating and chilling. Do not read if you tend to paranoia. And I read a perfectly worthless romcome by Rosamond Pilcher, “Sleeping Tiger” which I could have written myself in my sleep, it was so formulaic. But the formula works, so I finished it. And, because you recommended it so highly, I read “The Book that No One Wanted to Read.” If you have a child old enough to pick out its own books at the library, but too young for “The Phantom Tollbooth,” this would be a good choice.
Next I will either read the sequel to “Eight Cousins”,, “Rose in Bloom” (if I need more comfort) or Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse” which has been highly recommended by several of my bookish friends.
Happy Summer!
HCNewton
Like I said last week, I remember nothing more than the title for “I am the Cheese,” but fascinating, chilling, and not good for latent paranoia rings absolutely true.
That’s a great description for “The Book that No One…”
That Cordell memoir looked good when you mentioned it before, glad to see it held up.