It’s still, Wednesday, right? Well…it is here, anyway.
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 Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn, (I cannot believe I waited 6 years to open this!) and am listening to Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor, read by Ray Porter on audiobook. It’s been too long since I listened to Book 3, love getting back to this world.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished the rather fun The Tenacious Tale of Tanna the Tendersword by Dewey Conway & Bill Adams and Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs, read by Lorelei King on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire and my next audiobook should be Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg. I really enjoy the way Duhigg tells a story, and hopefully, I can learn from this one.
What’re you up to this week?
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I’m currently bogged down with Robert Graves’ “Hercules, My Shipmate” which started brilliantly and then…. For a book group I am reading Marie Benedict’s “Private Librarian”, another imagining of a powerful women standing invisibly behind a Giant of Industry – this time it’s a woman with African ancestry passing as white and serving as J. P. Morgan’s private librarian. (She’s already done Carnegie and Churchill and others.) It’s an easy read. And my new bedside book is “Mallowan’s Memoirs”, written by Agatha Christie’s husband, who was a renowned archaiologist.
I just finished “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” by Chris Taylor, a fun read for Star Wars geeks of a certain age. If you can remember making a light saber out of a flashlight and printer paper, or listening to the “Star Wars” tape over and over on car trips until every family member could recite the script (before the age of earphones and tablets), you willl enjoy browsing through this. I skipped a lot of the detail about the precursors who inspired George Lucas, and just hit the good stuff – anecdotes from the filming, how Harrison and Carrie and Alec and Luke were cast, etc.
I also breezed through “Love the Stars and All That” by Kirin Narayan, a Indo-American romance with a strong satirical punch aimed at American academia.
Next I may try another Booker Prize winner, “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. Or maybe a Larry McMurtry that I haven’t read yet, “Sin Killers.” Or maybe I’ll re-read Conrad’s “Lord Jim.” All three are on my TBR shelf.