It’s the 43rd day of the year, also known as February 12. And you know if I’m resorting to counting the days, I don’t have a lot to say by way of introduction. So let’s just get on with it.
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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| Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire |
Passageways by Rebecca Carey Lyles, Editor |
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss |
I just started the ARC for the upcoming InCryptid novel from McGuire, and am eager to see what kind of mess was left after the last book.
1.5 years after I was given this short story collection by Becky Lyles, I’m done putting it off.
This book by Bliss is an interesting mix of humor and history (heavy on the former, but informed by the latter). Love the concept, if nothing else.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Anxious People by Fredrik Backman |
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, read by Barton Welch |
Backman’s Anxious People was hilarious, touching, sobering, heart-warming, and wise.
I appreciated going through Stevenson’s book again, I was able to better appreciate the structure, the way he set everything up, and so on without being distracted by all the twists, turns, and reveals.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson |
Long Past Dues by James J. Butcher, read by James Patrick Cronin |
Snow Crash is the selection for the SciFi Book Club this month–somehow, I’ve yet to make it past the first third of the book in the decades I’ve spent trying, as much as I’ve enjoyed that third. That streak ends soon.
I remember being thrown by the way Butcher’s second novel ended. It’ll be good to revisit this and to see how he laid the groundwork for it.
Do you have a date with a book for St. Valentine’s Day, or are you going for something more conventional?
allysonyj
I’m currently reading “Writers on world War II” for a class – most recent excerpt by Jean Paul Sartre brooding about how he is going to form the demoralized French soldiers into a French Resistance. I’ve also kinda started Nikos Kazantzakis’ “The Odyssey : a modern sequel – Actually there is a 37-page intro in very small print which I’ve waded through’ Next is a prologue, then I’ll finally get to the meat of the matter.
Just finished Amanda Jones’ ‘That Librarian”, a horror story about how internet trolls nearly destroyed the life of an award-winning librarian because she defended including books with LGBTQA+ and BIPOC protagonists. Could have used a good editor, but still very frightening.
Also finished Kate Atkinson’s “Death at the Sign of the Rook” a fluffy homage to Agatha Christie – not a jigsaw but a Rubik’s cube of a mystery.
No idea what I’ll read next
HCNewton
That Writers on World War II looks fascinating. And “That Librarian” sounds frightening indeed.