I’m putting this together on the 16th day of the year—and I just now started my first Mystery novel of the year. How strange is that??? I guess The Tainted Cup had enough of that going on that my withdrawal symptoms haven’t kicked in.
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?
Seems easy enough, right? Let’s take a peek at this week’s answers:
What are you currently reading?
I’m reading the very quirky Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, and have just started listening to Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire, read by Emily Bauer on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished the wibbly wobbly, timey wimey The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown and America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien, read by Oliver Wyman on audio, a book I’m conflicted about. Maybe.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the almost certainly fast and fun, Hacker by Duncan MacMaster, and my next audiobook should be the dark and grim, Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane, read by Jonathan Davis (unless a library hold comes up first).
What are you bundled up against the cold with?
Jody
These sound like they will be pretty good. I hope you enjoy them! 😊
HCNewton
Thanks, Jody! OVerall, yeah, pretty good.
allyson johnson
I’m over 1000 pages into “War and Peace”. Napoleon is about to invade Moscow, and the Rostovs are evacuating, leaving behind their valuable possessions and filling their luggage carts instead with wounded Russian soldiers, including, unbeknownst to Natasha, her ex-fiance Prince Andrei, who, contrary to rumor, is not dead yet. Pierre is fleeing from various people who want something from him, including his wife who wants a divorce, and is disguising himself as a peasant so that he can fight as a common soldier. Natasha spots him in his disguise and calls out to him, but he brushes her off despite his love for her.
I’m up to about p. 160 in “Oscar and Lucinda”, but I have given in to the greater appeal of Verghese’s “Covenant of Water”, so Peter Carey’s Booker Prize winner is on the back burner again. I also am browsing through a book my son gave me some years back, “The Museum at Purgatory”, a peculiar collection of pictures and words by Nick Bantock. I’m hoping to understand it better on a second reading than I did the first reading, or at least, to understand why my son thought I should have it.
Next, I might re-read E. Nesbit’s “Five Children and It”. I never read this as a child, but I generally like children’s classic literature, and this is reputed in that category.
Has anyone else got opinions about Nesbit or Bantock?
HCNewton
I don’t have any opinions about Nesbit or Bantock, but just from the latter’s title, I’m intrigued 🙂