Hey, I managed to get this up! (didn’t get anything else done today, but let’s accentuate the positive)
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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| A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett |
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown |
Bennett is knocking it out of the park again. I may be enjoying this one more than last year’s, but that’s just because I know what to expect from these characters. I certainly don’t know what to expect from this world, which is even stranger this time out. I got to the part of the book where a character utters the title today, which is always worth a cheer. It wasn’t used the way I initially took it, either, which is perfectly satisfying.
Speaking of satisfying…Alton Brown reading this essay collection is my front-runner for Audiobook of the Year. It’s just ridiculously entertaining.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames |
That’s Not Right by Scott Meyer, read by Luke Daniels |
As I said last week, Bloody Rose is not Kings of the Wyld. While that’s somewhat disappointing, but it’s good that it wasn’t. I put off reading this for far too long, I’m so glad I got to dip back into this world.
I opened the “wrong” audiobook last week, so I’ll have to circle back to A Little History of Music, after I clear off a few Library reserves (why do they insist on becoming available in stacks?). Instead, I had some quirky fun with Scott Meyer. This was not his best, but not his worst either (and his worst, it should be noted, is still plenty of fun). Solid fun, some really good lines, and (as you expect) some great performances from Luke Daniels.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto |
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin, read by Holter Graham & Saskia Maarleveld |
Do I know what this return to the world of Vera Wong is about? Nope–and I don’t care. I just want to watch her meddle some more.
Serpent & Dove is one of those I’m listening to based on a recommendation (name withheld in case I don’t like it, no need to shame the lad). I’m really not sure this is my bag, but I hope to be surprised.
What’s keeping you up at night/filling your day?
Allyson Johnson
I’m currently reading Michael Gabon’s Pulitzer Prize winner “The Aventures of Kavalier and Clay”. I had put this aside and had to start over, but it’s a fast and fun read so far. Also keeping at an ancient Pocket Book collection of Short Stories – so old that as I turn a page it falls out. But they are great stories, ranging from Hemingway to Thomas Mann to Saki – a great overview of the genre. And also reading “Writers on World War II” edited by Mordecai Richler – lots of snippets about the war in chronological order – I’m as far as Germany’s surprise attack on Russia. Also enjoying my bedside book, Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime.”
Finished Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir “An Unfinished Love Story” which I found very hard going – it is a chronicle of the 60’s as remembered by DKG and her husband Dick Goodwin who was a speechwriter for JFK, LBJ, and RFK and present at many of the high and low points of that troubled decade. It was hard to read because it brought back so many vivid memories. My book group loved it, though.
Also finished Rosemary Hayward’s new book “Strait Lace”, a historical fiction about the women’s suffrage movement in Britain at the start of the 20th century. Hayward brings the broad history into focus through the protagonist, Harriet Loxley, the well-brought-up daughter of an English vicar who becomes a radicalized activist in the course of the movement. Some VERY vivid scenes of what the suffragist supporters went through- self-righteous cruelty endures in many guises.f
Gave up on “Regency Miss” – just couldn’t keep the characters straight, or maintain interest. Have I sugared out on Regency novels? Could be…
Next I will probably read the new Suzanne Collins entry in the Hunger Games series, as my husband just got a copy. Guilty pleasure. (I skipped the last one about the past of President Snow, but I’ll probably get sucked into this one.)
HCNewton
Kavalier and Clay was such a good read.
Reading that collection of short stories must come with more tension than usual. “Do I get to finish this before it disintegrates?”