Every title in this post is one that I own. That doesn’t happen too often–it’s rather nice to have a bunch of things to decrease Mt. TBR all together like this.
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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| Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology edited by L. J. Hachmeister |
Running and Jumping by Steven Kedie |
The Late Lord Thorpe by Peter Grainger, read by Gildart Jackson |
I need some shorter reads that I can dip into here and there, so what better time to finally get around to this collection? Urban Fantasy stories starring some of my favorite fictional animals–how have I not read this yet?
And yeah, I decided to squeeze in another title before Kedie’s work, but I am getting this read now.
I’m still working through The Late Lord Thorpe–my job has been actively working against me listening to it a lot over the last few days (and will continue to do so through the end of the week), so I have no idea how long it will be before David Smith and his creator show me how wrong I was last week.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham |
I think DS Miller’s first adventure was a bit more on the amusing side–but this second book is so good that I didn’t care. This was a really compelling and twisty read.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| 1-800-CallLoki (The Loki Adventures Omnibus) by Dawn Blair |
This omnibus has been sitting near the top of my TBR for too long, it’s time to knock it out.
Given how long the new Grainger is taking me, and library due dates coming up, I honestly have no idea what my next audiobook will be (yes, the audiobook of What You Are Looking for Is in the Library had to be returned unlistened…the amount of work I’m putting into listening to this is outweighing my expectations, but at this point, it’s the principle of the thing)
What authors and titles have caught your attention lately?
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I’m still reading Paul Theroux’s “Sunrise with Sea Monsters”, an uneven collection of his early essays. Pretty good as a bedside book. Consigned Sabatini’s “The Sea Hawk” and Drabble’s “The Needle’s Eye” to DNF status – one just too swash-buckling for credibility, the other too placid, low-key, and British.
I read “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin for a book club – turned out to be a re-read but I was impressed again by how well Toibin evokes the thoughts and (sometimes bad) decisions of an 18 year old Irish immigrant girl on her own in Brooklyn. Since it was a re-read, I went ahead and gobbled down the sequel, “Long Island” which picks up the same girl 20 years later. You are thinking “Phooey, women’s fiction”, but these two books are much more than that. Eilis is still, at 40, making doubtful decisions as her nice suburban world is rocked, and the supporting cast is superb. Highly recommend the two.
I also knocked off Karleen Koen’s 1980’s best selling “Through a Glass Darkly” – all 755 small-print pages. This is not Georgette Heyer’s Regency romance, but a sweeping saga of illicit passion, betrayal, debauchery, ambition, all dressed up in gorgeous settings with real historical figures making cameo appearances and delicious literary allusions (John Donne, Shakespeare, the King James Bible) slipped in here and there for literary flavor.
Next I may go to my TBR shelf. I had another trashy novel lined up, but put it away until I had finished my book club obligations and now I can’t find it. I may have to read something worthwhile.