I got new glasses today and the vertigo-ish feeling from wearing them is not my favorite thing in the world. I can’t wait for that to be over with.
Also, to paraphrase a certain Fez/Bowtie/Stetson-wearing Mad Man: I wear trifocals now. Trifocals are cool.
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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| Robert B. Parker’s Buzz Kill by Alison Gaylin |
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis, read by Keval Shah |
Weeks after I initially tried (aka the week it was released) I get to dive into Gaylin’s second at-bat with Sunny Randall in Buzz Kill.
Dreadful is a fun light fantasy with a lot of heart, and I really wish I got to spend more time listening to it today.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke |
Constituent Service by John Scalzi, read by Amber Benson |
I’m going to be writing a post for A New Lease on Death soon, but the tl;dr version is this: of the four Blacke novels I’ve read/enjoyed, this is the best.
Consistent Service is zany Scalzi SF humor with a dynamite job from Benson. (she’s gotta be in the running for my coveted 1st Annual Narrator of the Year designation)
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Spook Street by Mick Herron |
Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. Taylor; read by Ray Porter |
Spook Street is likely up next. Not (just) so I can watch the new season of Slow Horses.
And unless I hear about an audio review copy or a library hold that comes up, I get to catch up with the new Bobiverse book. Which should be fun. Maybe a little dark. But fun.
What’s keeping you busy/entertaining you/distracting you from life in general?
allysonyj
I’m currently reading “A Whisper Across a Sea” by Christina Holland, a family saga based on Holland’s discovery of letters and a diary from previous generations. Holland juggles points of view and changes in time so much better than my recent failures from the celebrated Kate Atkinson!
I also took a major whack at the classic “The Sea Hawk” by Rafael Sabatini, an author whose works were snatched up in films starring Errol Flynn. This one, though … I got halfway through and then suddenly realized I was swashbuckled out. I’m not sure I’ll be able to finish this one.
I got another chapter or two through Dostoyevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov”. This part was a long discourse from brother Ivan to brother Alyosha about the nature of God, Evil, Redemption, and Justice. Amazing stuff. I kept nodding in agreement: no matter how the Last Judgement reveals the Rightness of God’s Plan, how can it justify the suffering of innocent children? Ivan attacks this ethical conundrum with both barrels blazing. Amazing stuff.
I don’t think I have finished anything since my last entry. Next… oh, I started reading Margaret Drabble’s putative modern classic “The Needle’s Eye.” So far, I’m thinking it has a lot of words to describe not much.
I’m having an epidemic of DNF’s recently. I purged a couple of unread Dick Francis volumes from my TBR shelf – decided I don’t need to read about any more dead horses.
HCNewton
Oh, is that all? 🙂
I can see why you’d give all these a chance, and why not all of them would work out.