Happy National Book Lover’s Day (at least here in the U.S.—I guess the rest of you have to be apathetic about books or something). I hope you’re reading something good—here’s today’s WWW to look the books I’ve been spending time with this week.
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 However Long the Day by Justin Reed (which I won’t describe because he did yesterday) and am wrapping up the audiobook Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn, narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer & Christina Delaine—we’ve had a plethora of senior sleuths lately, it’s about time for the other side.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Rebecca Carey Lyle’s Shadow Rancy and since I took a few days off from audiobooks last week, the last audiobook I finished was Don’t Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson, narrated by: Luke Arnold, Sibylla Budd.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the (I’m guessing) tragic and death-filled, yet (I’m hoping) hopeful, Light Bringer by Pierce Brown. My next audiobook should be the next in my InCryptid revisit, Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire, Emily Bauer (Narrator).
How’re you spending this Book Lover’s Day?
allyson johnson
I’m currently reading “Girl with a Pearl Earring” because I missed it when everyone was reading it. It’s pretty good – Chevalier makes me feel the terrible constraint put on servants in the time of Vermeer and the Dutch Renaissance. Also still working on Nadine Gortimer’s “Jump” short story collection.
I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” a retelling of the Dickens classic “David Copperfieldj” but set in rural Appalachia rather than in Victorian London. A scathing inditement of our foster care system, a wake-up call about the opioid crisis, maybe a bit too clever in fitting all the Dickens pieces in.
I also slipped in a look at Avram Davidson’s classic “The Phoenix and the Mirror”, but after a great beginning I found it just too phantasmagorical and gave up.
Next I will read (actually, finish reading after a long break) William Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust”. And probably something fluffy or a re-read will show up.
HCNewton
Foster care, opioids, and Appalachia. Sounds like a good way to tweak Dickens.