I can’t think of an introductory paragraph (or even a sentence) today. So let’s just jump into things:
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 |
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox |
I’m almost certainly finishing the Kedie book today–it’s intense. I don’t know where it’s going to end up, but my blood pressure will be better when it does.
Instinct is a mixed bag–but mostly good. The Jim Butcher story made me so glad when I read it I wouldn’t care if the rest of the stories were horrible (they’re not, but I really would be fine with that).
Jesse David Fox is the kind of guy I’d like to talk comedy with, I have so many follow-up questions about the material in the first half of this book (not because he didn’t give enough information, I just want more). This is the kind of book I’ve wanted for ages.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Teen Titans: Starfire by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo (Illustrator) |
The Late Lord Thorpe by Peter Grainger, read by Gildart Jackson |
I really liked this take on Starfire (and Cyborg)–giving her Ehlers–Danlos syndrome was an interesting move (and might have got my daughter to read the whole series).
I’m already missing David Smith (and, yes, Grainger fooled me).
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan |
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue, read by Nasim Pedrad |
Altered Carbon is one of those that I think I might have read a couple of decades ago, but I’m not sure. Anyway, this is the book for the Sci-Fi book club.
it was a while ago that I put a hold on I Hope This Finds You Well at the library, and I honestly don’t remember what it was about the book that intrigued me. It looks promising, and I trust post-me. Mostly.
Tell me what you’re reading–help me feel like I’m not in this rut I’ve been in lately (you’ll note how slow things have been turning over here lately).
allysonyj
“I’m currently reading Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon”, which is a very challenging work filled with multiple dysfunctional characters, multiple points of view, non-chronological narrative. I loved her “Beloved” and “Song” was apparently her first book to attract wide attention. This one, though,,, I’m having a hard time figuring out who I’m supposed to root for, as most of the characters are either criminal or crazy. And I still have Paul Theroux’s “Sunrise with Sea Monsters” on my bedside table. I like his travel writing, but when he writes about his own country (the US) the view is quite jaundiced. His essay about his high school reunion is quite dour.
Next I’ll probably read something straightforward, like Ivan Boig’s “Bucking the Sun” or even relapse into Sarah Maas’s romantasy series that I swore not to bother finishing.
I finished Kathleen Koen’s “Through a Glass Darkly”, a huge family saga set in Regency England, but much darker than the usual dimity-clad Regency romance. So as an antidote I picked up a normal Regency romance, Amanda Quick’s “The Paid Companion.” (I thought it seemed famiiar but enjoyed it just the same, even though I realized afterward that it was a re-read.) I also re-read Coim Toibin’s “Brooklyn” and went on to its sequel, “Long Island”. Good writing about ordinary people in awkward situations.
HCNewton
Sounds like you’ve earned a relapse into Maas and the Quick re-read!