In honor of the dialect spoken in my current read, I’m calling this a very special WWW Wodensday Edition of this weekly glimpse at what I’m doing to fill my time.
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 Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson, an entertaining little romp. By the time this posts, I will probably have just started listening to On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane, Hayden Bishop (Narrator) on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Liz Monument’s The Eternity Fund, a thriller I really wasn’t in the mood for when I started it—but after 20 minutes or so, I was hooked. Yesterday I finished The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer, Marian Hussey on audio, which was utterly okay.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the SF adventure Proxies by James T. Lambert. A couple of Library holds came through, so my next audiobook should (again) be Blue Like Me by Aaron Philip Clark, Preston Butler III (Narrator).
What’s in front of your eyes?
Lashaan Balasingam
I’m really curious about Sanderson’s latest novel. I don’t know how I feel about his secret projects though.
HCNewton
Indulge your curiosity no matter what you think of his secret projects. It may convince you.
Allyson Johnson
I’m currently reading “Lost” by Daniel Mendelsohn, and just started “Intruder in the Dust” by William Faulkner (Faulknerian prose – wow! Sentences that coil around in circles sucking you in! ) On my bedside table is “Oscar Wars” full of trivia about the Academy Awards – nothing to disturb my sleep.
I just finished reading Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times” which, if you haven’t read any Dickens since you were force-fed “Oliver Twist” and “Great Expectations” in high school, is a great intro to Dickens the social crusader. It’s almost more a fable than a novel, less than 300 pages, which is brief for Dickens.
I also read another Rosamund Pilcher, “The Day of the Storm”, a fluffy novel
with the standard Plucky Orphan who discovers a Family She Has Never Known, complete with a Teasing Guy to whom she takes Instant Dislike, who is Not What He Seems, and a Handsome Cousin with a Hidden Agenda. Can you write it from here?
Next I might read “Straight” by Dick Francis, and I plan to read “the Adventures of Kavaler and Klay” which you recommended.
Oh, happy summer!
HCNewton
Faulkner’s prose is just one of those things that inspires me and frustrates me at the same time. Mostly inspires me (but there are times when the effort is daunting)