So, it turns out I reserved, and checked out, the ebook for What You Are Looking for Is in the Library last week, whoops. Back for another 6 week wait on that one. It’s been a week of writer’s block and fatigue so far–maybe not block, but writer’s dissatisfaction. Which is results in the same thing. But hey…let’s do a quick WWW check in anyway, and I can pretend I’m a consistent blogger.
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?
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| My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby |
On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune Godedited by Matthew Barrett | How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley, read by Clare Corbett |
Cosby’s first novel isn’t as polished as his second one–but he hits you with his talent on every page. (at least so far) Yeah, Blacktop Wasteland was a leap ahead of this one. But I’d buy a handful of books of this caliber without a complaint.
I should finish with the Barret book by the end of the week–I should be done with it by now, actually. It’s not a book that should be read this quickly–and when I re-read it, I will take weeks longer to do so.
I’m not sure what to think of Pooley’s novel yet. There are parts that are a lot of fan–and there are parts that are just there. It’s Gayle’s All the Lonely People meets How the Penguins Saved Veronica with a dash of Richard Osman thrown in. I’m not quite at the halfway point as of this writing–I’ll have more to say soon.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt |
Starter Villain by John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton |
Hopefully you’ll see my thoughts about The More the Terrier this week, but the short version is: reliably entertaining with a dash of holiday cheer.
It took me a little longer to finish Starter Villain than I expected–it was just one of those weeks. That just prolonged the time I got to spend in that world. I’m ready to listen again (well, not really…it’s still too fresh. But give me a couple of months…)
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke |
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller, read by January LaVoy |
I wondered if Olivia Black was done with the Record Shop Mysteries by the end of the last one, and it certainly appears she is with the launch of this new series. So, what is it? It’s got an Odd Couple-ish pair of roommates solving supernatural mysteries in Boston. The grumpy roommate is a new ghost, and the younger, happier woman is alive. Hard to get more mismatched than that.
The Library brought me Lula Dean’s Little Library again, so I can finish it–and decide if it was worth coming back to.
Tell me what kinds of things you’re reading that I should add to my pile.
Mike Finn
A New Lease On Death sounds like gentle fun. I’ve wishlisted it for when it comes out in the UK
HCNewton
I’m at 30% so far. Gentle fun sums it up pretty well.
allysonyj
I’m currently completely between books, unless you count my bedside book, Paul Theroux’s essay collection “Sunrise with Sea Monsters”. Theroux is a good writer, but these early essays show a superciliousness which poisons his observations on his travels – sort of like “I’m a traveler, but you, poor reader, are only a tourist.”
I just finished Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”. A perfect Halloween novella. Ooh – a haunted mansion, a mass murder, an untrustworthy narrator… super spooky!
I also finished F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night”, a “Classic” which I read on the recommendation of my son, a Fitzgerald fan. It is an intimate portrait of the dissolution of two lives., based, I was surprised to find, on a network of actual acquaintances of FSF. My book group found it confusing, with too many points of view, flashbacks, etc. but compared to my recent Kate Atkinson DNF’s it was a cleareyed vision of the corruption of wealth and privilege.
Next I am going to my TBR shelf for “Bucking the Sun” by Ivan Doig.
HCNewton
IIRC, Tender is the Night is the Fitzgerald book I liked more than his other non-Gatsby works. But I don’t think it’d be something we’d still be reading if it wasn’t for Gatsby. What do you think?
I should get around to reading that Jackson novella one day