I’m ba-aa-aa-ck. I think.
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 ARC for Moonbound by Robin Sloan (a book I’m terrified that I’m going to have to describe soon), 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies and am listening to Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire, read by Emily Bauer on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Shannon Knight’s Grave Cold (yes, I finally did it!) and After the Storm by Linda Castillo, read by Kathleen McInerney on audio.
Oh, also:
Chasing Empy Caskets by E.N. Crane, The Good Samaritan Strikes Again by Patrick F. McManus, The Secret & Hunting Virgins by Wayne Hawk, Price to Pay by Dave Sivers, The Olympian Affair by Jim Butcher, The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson, and All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be the ARC for Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart and my next audiobook should be Dark Days by Derek Landy, read by Rupert Degas.
WHat’ve you been up to lately?
allysonyj
Welcome back! I had some books saved up to comment on but this meme didn’t surface for a couple of weeks, so there is a backlog to work through.
I am currently reading Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and liking it very much – more than I did when it was required in HS. Also reading N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize winning “House Made of Dawn” set in Navajo country but WAAAAY different from Tony Hillerman’s take!
Tried to read but did not finish “The Book of Doors.” I re-read your review and you mentioned that at one point you almost put the book aside but stuck with it and were glad you did; I’ll bet that the chapter from the POV of the Woman, an incarnation of evil, was the spot that you got stuck on. I could not get past it. I also did not finish a non-fiction work “Our Moon.” Just too dry, despite some good info.
I found “The Menace from Earth” a collection of short stories by Robert Heinlein, to be quite dated. The title story, appropriate for YA, was oddly the best.
“The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” is based on epigenetics, a theory that learned behavior can be passed on to one’s descendants. It would have been better if the author had not jumped around in time AND pt-of-view and made the story unnecessarily confusing. Afong Moy was a Chinese lady who was brought to the US in the 1800’s and put on display. Her life would have been sufficient as a story without being used to serve the epigenetics theory.
Sara Paretsky abandoned her detective V. I. Warshawski to write “Ghost Country”, a tale of homeless life in Chicago. It’s a real page turner, with a strong message.
Also while traveling I read some fluff: Agatha Christie’s “Ordeal by Innocence”, a classic whodunit, set on a country estate with multiple motives for the murder and a
varied cast of suspects. The victim is a do-gooder who adopted five children, each of whom grew to hate her. “Charity Girl” a classic Georgette Heyer romance, with the requisite descriptions of clothing, use of period slang, and happy ending. And a re-read of Dorothy Gilmore’s delightful “The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax”.
So now we are up to date.