Why do I keep doing this to myself? “I’ll need a break from this Non-Fiction book occasionally, so I’ll read this novel, too.” It almost never works well, and I end up making tiny progress in both–yet I don’t want to press pause on one to just finish the other. Am I alone in this silliness?
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?
The books sabotaged myself by reading simultaneously are The Camelot Shadow by Sean Gibson and Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past by Tore C. Olsson. I’m listening to The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman, read by Fiona Shaw on audiobook (and I’ll be about to hit “that” moment about the time this posts…alas).
What did you recently finish reading?
James T. Lambert’s Steam Opera and the audiobook of Storm Front by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Rise of Akaisha Morningstar by Kataya Moon (I’ve been curious about this for months) and my next audiobook should be Swiped by L.M. Chilton, read by Georgia Maguire.
How many books are you juggling? Do you regret it, like me, or does your brain work better this way? (and yes, Allyson, I’m looking at you)
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Whoah! A shout-out to my lengthy reading lists!
I’m currently finishing the last sin (Lust!) in the Great Books anthology “Even Deadlier”, (a sequel to “7 Deadly Sins”). Of course, these are great short stories, with contributions from Balzac, Fitzgerald, Huxley, as well as more modern writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Pam Houston. I wish this had been my high school English text!
ANd I’m nearly done with Max Malloran’s memoir of his life in archaeology along with wife Agatha Christie
I am determined to try again with Ruth Ozeki’s latest, “The book of Form and Emptiness” I’m only 27 pp into it (520 pp to go!) and it was a bit too whimsical for me; after my recent more serious reading I may be up for it.
I just finished Vikram Seth’s “An Equal Music” (a re-read). Seth is amazing – he has written a 1400 page family epic (“A Suitable Boy”) which was an unlikely best-seller, a memoir about his grandparents, several books of poems, including some translations from the Chinese and an entire novel written in sonnet stanzas, and this powerful novel about love, loss, and music. And all of it is immensely readable. (A sequel to “A Suitable Boy” was promised, and is about 15 years overdue.)
If I don’t make it with Ozeki, I will read A.S.Byatt’s “Ragnarok”, part of a series commissioned by Canongate publisher in which modern writers are invited to re-imagine classic myths. (An earlier publication, Margaret Atwood’s “Penelopiad”, was terrific – I’m searching for more. )
And then it’s back to the TBR shelf…