Things got away from me today, so this is going up later than it should. But I’ve been blathering too much as it is…
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 Rites of Passage by M.D. Presley, and am just about finished listening to Dark Days by Derek Landy, read by Rupert Degas on audiobook.
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished the ARC of Rob Hart’s Assassins Anonymous—and you’re going to want get your hands on this one—and Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire, read by Emily Bauer on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be First Frost by Craig Johnson (assuming I get to Shared Stories by the time I finish Rites of Passage) and my next audiobook should be The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister.
How are you closing out the month?
allysonyj
Currently reading Gabrielle Kim’s “His Last Duchess”, an interesting expansion of Browning’s poem. Also N. Scott Momaday’s “House Made of Dawn.” It’s set in Navajo country, but reads more like Joseph Conrad, with lush descriptions and shifting points of view.
Or maybe it’s that I just finished re-reading Conrad’s “Lord Jim”, a beautifully written though leisurely paced tragedy of high ideals and good intentions clashing with the ugly and unpredictable real world.
Also binged on re-reads of Books 1-3 in Dorothy Gilman’s “Mrs. Pollifax” series of spy romps. Most upbeat series with a heroine of a certain age since Miss Marple retired.
And zipped through two YA graphics novels “Sleepless” and “Sleepless Volume 2” simply because the covers are so pretty (I often, I confess, judge a book by its cover at the library). These, by Sarah Vaughn w/ illus. by Leila del Duca, are unusual in that most of the characters are BIPOC, and the blond princess has a bad case of acne. I had to go back and reread the last pages to figure out exactly what had happened – partly due to my having trouble distinguishing which of the guys with curly hair and beards was the king, which one the ambassador, and which, in the end, was the villain.
I dipped a toe into Ruth Ozeki’s latest “The Book of Form and Emptiness” but I think I’d better finish the Momaday before I dive into this one.
Next I will read Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” for a book group. And maybe another Pollifax, as a guilty pleasure.