Somehow, it feels like March is half over, no matter what my calendar says. Is it just me?
Eh, numbers were never my thing, anyway. Let’s talk about words.
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 A Blight of Blackwings by Kevin Hearne, a mere four years after it was released (and four months after the final book in the trilogy was published), and am listening to Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane, read by Jonathan Davis on audiobook, the end of my most recent Kenzie/Gennaro revisit..
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished T. L. Simpson’s Strong Like You, a dynamite debut, and The Body’s Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments by Paul L. Kimmel, MD, read by Lane Hakel on audiobook.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the ARC of Rhythm and Clues by Olivia Blacke (which will surely be a fun time, like the first two in the series) and my next audiobook should be Dead Ground by M.W. Craven, read by John Banks, the only novel in the series I didn’t write about yet. Hopefully, I can fix that with revisiting it.
Are your books for the beginning of March more like lions or lambs?
allysonyj
I’m currently reading “Hercules, My Shipmate” a retelling of the Argonauts saga by Robert Graves, and for brain candy, re-reading a volume of Mary Stewart’s Arthurian saga ” The Last Enchantment.” On my bedside table for relaxation is “Evenings with Cary Grant”, a pleasant way to drift off.
I just finished “The Ebony Tower”, by John Fowles. In college, “The Collector” and “The Magus” blew my mind; later I was fascinated by “The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” This later book is actually a collection of stories, including “The Ebony Tower”, a novella which feels like a rough draft of “The Magus. The other items include a musing on/retelling of a French folk tale (or did he make the whole thing up?), a story of a home invasion which has echoes of “The Collector”, and a story of a strange picnic which also has shadows of “The Magus”. The earlier three books were each startlingly unique. It’s sad to see a great writer almost parodying himself.
I also read Georgette Heyer’s mystery/farce, “Footsteps in the Dark.” She should have stuck with regency romances – this country-house mystery is so full of brittle banter between the Bright Young Things being frightened in an old house that I got very impatient with the whole thing.
Next I have “The Book of Doors”, which you recommended highly, on hold at the library, and I hope my turn comes up this week. If not, there is always a Tony Hillerman on my TBR shelf.