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 zany Big Trouble in Little Italy by Nicole Sharp, and am listening to Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith on audiobook (if only so I can remember how good the rest are in comparison).
What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Alex Robins’ Panacea and The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song, read by Natalie Naudus on audio. Two books that were heavier than I anticipated (which says more about my expectations than anything)
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be Ways and Truths and Lives by Matt Edwards and my next audiobook should be Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by MJ Wassmer, read by Stephen R. Thorne. Yes, that audiobook was in this spot last week, too. But I hit play on the wrong app before I remembered that fact.
How’re you wrapping up August?
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Been awhile since I commented, as I have been on vacation, supervising home repairs, etc. Not much reading going on. Currently bookmarked on my reading pile is Hannah Irwin’s “The Women,” a harrowing tale of Army nurses in Viet Nam and their lives on return to the US mainland, while Paul Theroux’s “Sunrise with Sea Monsters” collection of essays is on the bedside table. I may DNF “The Last Outlaws” as this bio of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid doesn’t add much to what I already learned from the movie.
Some weeks ago I made the mistake of picking up a copy of R. F. Delderfield’s “God is an Englishman” and just meant to refresh my memory of this classic a bit. Of course, at 11PM I was hundreds of pages into this page-turner tale of a Victorian dynasty a-building. If you like 800+ page family sagas (and be warned, there are at least two sequels nearly as long) you can’t go wrong with this best of Delderfield.
I just finished Larry McMurtry’s “Sin Killer”, Volume one of “The Berrybender Narratives.” This is a farce replete with stereotypes: the bibulous English lord obsessed with hunting, the stodgy German fraulein who seeks a farm, the icy titled British lady won over by the monosyllabic bravado of the buckskin-clad frontiersman, and more. It begs to be made into a TV situation comedy – and I have Volume two on hold at the library.
Next – I might read Penelope FItzgerald’s novelette, “The Bookshop” although I think I have read it already and forgotten it. There is still Ruth Ozecki’s latest on my stack. Or I might go with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night” — one of those books which I somehow missed when it might have done me some good back in college.