INTRO
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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| Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames |
Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya, read by Traci Kato-Kiriyama |
Bloody Rose has been on the top of my To Be Read pile since it was published in 2018, but I wasn’t sure it could live up to its predecessor, so I put it off, and off, and off, and off…I have to stop running from it. The first 100 pages don’t live up to Kings of the Wylde, but what does? It’s still plenty of fun (as I expected)–and there’s plenty of time for it to get better.
When this posts, I’ll be about 30 minutes into Bibliophobia, so I really don’t know much about it. But how do I not get sucked in? I mean, look at this first paragraph from the blurb:
Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter. Sarah calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners”.
This book is a memoir about her life with some Life Ruiners. I don’t know that I can think about books that way (check with me in 7 hours of this), but it sounds fascinating.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs |
Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg, read by Eric Conger, Nicol Zanzarella |
Breaking Bread with the Dead is another stack of reasons that I want to be Alan Jacobs when I grow up.
As I said about Ashes Never Lie last week, Sharpe & Walker + Eve Ronin = fun.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett |
A Little History of Music by Robert Philip, read by Zeb Soanes |
As intimidated as I was to start Bloody Rose, I’m even more intimidated by A Drop of Corruption. The first in this series is one of the two best books I read last year. I doubt I’ll say the same about this one, but I bet it’ll be in teh running.
As for A Little History of Music? Eh, I was in the mood to learn a little something. Seemed like a good fit. (although I have a few library books on hold, if one of them comes through I can remain a little ignorant a bit longer)
CLOSING QUESTION?
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I’m currently reading “Writers on World War II” a wonderful compendium of poems, novel excerpts, letters, memoir and historical writing edited by Mordecau Richler. Also reading a trashy Regency romance, “Double Wedding” by Alix Melbourne. I was hoping this tale of twins separated at birth would be another in my much loved stories of twins and doppelgangers, ranging from “Lisa and Lottie” which inspired Disney’s “the Parent Trap” and which enthralled me at 7, and “The Scapegoat” by Daphne du Maurier, “Brat Farrar” by Josephine Tey, and many more. No, I’m afraid this may end up in my DNF file – just can’t keep the characters straight! Also reading Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime” as my bedside book. South Africa under apartheid – a modern country in medieval behavior.
Just finished Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “An Unfinished Love Story”, her memoir of the 60’s in American. I had a hard time reading this – it was so depressing to contrast the early 60’s so full of idealism and hope – the Peace Corps, the Great Society, the “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” mantra – compared with our current situation.
Next I hope to get back to Michael Chabon’s “The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” but I will probably have to start at the beginning, it’s been so long since I looked at it.
And I will read Rosemary Hayward’s “Strait Lace” – a story of a suffragette in the wild world of England in the 1900’s. I have read much of this in early drafts – Hayward is a wonderful writer and careful researcher. A well -written historical novel is the best history lesson.