Hi there, welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday, the time where I take a moment out from doing…whatever it is that I’m doing here to talk about what I’m reading and listening to lately. I hope you’re having an okay week. Before we dive in, please indulge me for just a moment, will you? I want to try something real quick-like:
That wasn’t too bad, was it?? Eh, let’s get back to the classic way of doing this:
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 Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian . I will have probably read it for 20 minutes by the time this posts, so…I don’t have a lot to say about it yet (really looking forward to diving in, though!). I’m listening to The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale, read by Ambreen Razia, Ayesha Antoine, Bea Holland and Imogen Church on audiobook. It’s described as a dark comedy–I’ve yet to get to the comedy, but man, oh, man does it have the dark covered.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Andrew Miller’s Namaste Mart Confidential, you’ve read few PI novels like this one. I also finished Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle Cosimano, read by Stacy Gonzalez on audio, because it became it available this weekend and I was already in a Finlay Donovan frame of mind, so I bumped it up the list before diving into my current audiobook.
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What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be for Samurai! by Saburo Sakai with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito. My next audiobook should be You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace, read by Fiona Hardingham.
How’re you doing?
(I promise, I’m going to try to catch up on the comments left lately…I think I’m missing some good stuff there)
allysonyj
I’m currently re-reading Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and finding it pretty wonderful – the descriptions of characters and locations are downright immersive. You have to be patient with the leisurely pace though. I also took down another chapter of “The Brothers Karamazov” which is my last resort on my iPad when I’m traveling – I’ve loved other Dostoyevsky classics but this one is a slog.
I just finished a second Ivan Doig novel, “Work Song”. Morrie Morgan, last seen as the encyclopedic school teacher in the supporting cast in “The Whistling Season” here emerges as the protagonist and first person narrator of his own story. You should read “The Whistling Season” first, but this is a fine and fun read.
And I re-read “The Mysterious Island”. This Jules Verne story has elements of “Robinson Crusoe”, as five Union soldiers who have escaped a Confederate prison in a balloon crash land onto a desert volcanic island in the Pacific (and was this maybe an inspiration also for Wm Pene du Bois’ classic “21 Balloons”?) I didn’t discover until I was well into this reread that the version I had (from Scholastic Book Services) was abridged – it seemed plenty wordy to me. A fun read, especially if you have already read Verne’s “20,000 Leagues under the Sea” (or at least seen the Disney movie.) Your ability to suspend disbelief had better be in good shape.
Next I will read the third book in Doig’s series, “Sweet Thunder.” My hold on your recommended “The Book of Doors” expired while I was traveling (return flight got cancelled) so I will have to re-establish the hold and I have lost my place in line. Oh well.
HCNewton
Verne’s one of those authors from childhood that I perennially tell myself to revisit (if only because i probably also read abridgements). A good-sized amount of suspension of disbelief sounds about right.