No time for an intro or anything, let’s just drive
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 still reading (and making oddly slow progress in) Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and the short story collection, Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green. I’m listening to Making It So by Patrick Stewart on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I last finished Shami Stovall’s Time-Marked Warlock, a dynamite soon-to-be-released Urban Fantasy and the audiobook, Lost Talismans and a Tequila by Annette Marie, read by Teddy Hamilton, Cris Dukehart.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the promising-looking Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado and my next audiobook should be Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire, read by Emily Bauer.
Tell me what you’re reading.
Oh, also, Bookstooge, try to restrain your Collins I-told-you-so.
allysonyj
I’m currently reading “The Book of Doors” but not as entranced as I had hoped to be. Seems like a concept worthy of Neil Gaiman, but not as well executed as “Neverwhere” or “The Ocean at the End of the Lane.” Not sure I’ll finish it. I’m also reading “Our Moon” by Rebecca Boyle, a rather scholarly but readable collection of essays about the influence of our planet’s satellite on our world culture. And I’m about halfway through a re-read of Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim.”
I just finished “The Bartender’s Tale,” another Ivan Doig family epic set of course in Montana, but this time in the 1950’s rather than the 19th century. A fine read, a page-turner, but wrapped up a bit too fast, as though Doig got tired. Also re-read “Framley Parsonage,” a comforting Trollope set in Barsetshire with many familiar characters. I had a shot at “Good Omens”, the Neil Gaiman/Terry Patchett pastiche, but abandoned it as a bit too British in its humor. (But then I never could get into “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” either, despite several attempts.)
Next I will read “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” by Jamie Ford, a book group selection that I know nothing about in advance. Then I’ll be traveling for a couple of weeks, so it depends on what I can get downloaded to my iPad or fit into my backpack.
HCNewton
I don’t know if I’d have made the Gaiman connection, but I can see it now. Sorry it didn’t work as well for you.
I’ve never been able to get into Good Omens myself, and have tried a handful of times.
Your other titles look intriguing, as always.