Yup. I’m late with this. It’s not even Wednesday for many of you…it’d been a day and I needed some good no-screen time today, and thankfully my wife drug me away from them. But I’m home now, and have time to finish this off.
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 urore-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 (and meant to finish yesterday) the ARC for Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne—it might be my favorite thing in this series, I am making progress in On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God edited by Matthew Barrett, and I’m listening to Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman, read by Peter Giles on audiobook. (Giles’ raspy, tough, Bales-as-Batman narration has had to have shredded his vocal cords, I hope he was taken care of)
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What did you recently finish reading?
I just finished Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and #CrimeTime by Jeneva Rose and Drew Pyne, read by: Abelardo Campuzano, Jennifer Damiano, Phil Thron, Gary Tiedemann, Peter Berkrot, P.J. Ochlan, Nancy Linari, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Piper Goodeve, Kevin R. Free and Samantha Desz on audio.
What do you think you’ll read next?
My next book should be The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo—a book I told Russo I’d read before March 20 of this year. Ugh. My next audiobook should be An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka, read by Will Watt. I don’t know if I can handle Jacka with a different narrator (as age-appropriate as he might be compared to Gildart Jackson)
What are you working through?
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I’m on the last volume of the Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry. I almost didn’t go for it, as the third volume didn’t have much momentum, but I figures I’d gotten this far, I’d better close out the series. I do like the protagonist, Lady Tasmin Berrybender, and her husband, frontiersman Jim Snow, but the intervals of frontier violence are staggering and hard to un-read.
I also started reading “Bear” by Julia Phillips but it was a bit too dark after a bout of Berrybendering, so…
I took a break and revisited my old friend “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, basic template for every Gothic romance written since 1800. It’s pretty amazing to realize that two of the most popular genres and memes of “women’s fiction” came from just two women who lived at the same time and in the same country – Charlotte Bronte for the meme of the poor-but-spirited girl who falls for the dark-mysterious-stranger-with-a-secret, and Jane Austen for the Regency Romance and the meme of the witty-self-confident girl who is attracted to the glamourous Wrong Man, but eventually ends up with Mr. Right. “Jane Eyre” is just so solid, and my copy (circa 1943) has wonderful woodcut illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg.
Next I may give Kate Atkinson one more chance with her “Shrines of Gaiety” and then I swear I will pick something from the TBR shelf.
HCNewton
oooh, woodcut illustrations? Those sound fun. JE is one of those books I could read any day, any time, and walk away satisfied