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 According to Mark by H.B. O’Neill, and boy howdy, am I going to spend a lot of energy talking about it next year when it’s published. I’m listening to The Bittlemores by Jann Arden on audiobook—which is so much better than I’d expected.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished the incredible Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet (Illustrator) and the almost-as-good Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips (Narrator) on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust by Mike Lupica, I hope the transition from Atkins to Lupica on the flagship Parker series is smooth. My next audiobook should be Brokedown Prophets by S. A. Cosby, narrated by a full cast—I have no idea what it’s about, really. I stopped reading at “S.A. Cosby.”
What are reading as the year heads into its home stretch?
Allyson Johnson
Thanksgiving was an extended family affair, so I didn’t read much. I did finish Volume 1 of “War and Peace”. Nikolai’s family estate is in deep financial trouble, which Nikolai could salvage by marrying the rich but plain daughter of a family friend – but Nikolai is in love with his penniless cousin Sonya. Andrei’s father demands that he wait at least a year before marrying Nikolai’s young sister Natasha, so Andrei goes off to Germany to regain his health after his near-death on the battlefield at Austerlitz. Natasha manages six months of waiting before she is seduced by the rake Kuragin (brother of the plain heiress), breaks her engagement with Andrei, and plans an elopement (not knowing Kuragin is already married). Sonya discovers the plan and the family thwarts the elopement, but Natasha is still disgraced. PIerre comforts her by declaring his love for her, though he is not free to marry her. (Does this sound like an amazing soap opera or what!)
I picked up a copy of a little-known Georgette Heyer regency romance/historical novel, “An Infamous Army”. Heyer is the queen of Regency romance, but the historical stuff in this exhaustively researced account overwhelms the romance, even though a number of characters from the romances are brought into the battle of Waterloo. I didn’t finish it. (Tolstoy did Austerlitz so much better!)
HCNewton
Getting through any Russian lit (or, part of a historical fiction) and an extended family affair is a heck of an accomplishment.