The end of May looms, and I’m behinder than ever. What a problem–too many good things to read. Here’s what’s going in my eyes and ears this week.
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 Graveyard For Heroes by Michael Michel |
The Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven, read by John Banks |
Michel has my head spinning with this installment–fantasy readers need to get ready for this release next month (volume 1 is available if you haven’t done it yet). With a little less than 300 pages left to go in this, I’m already salivating over book 3’s release in January (the cover reveal for it will be here tomorrow, btw)
I’ve barely scratched the surface of the Poe audiobook, but already I’m hooked–and picking up on things I missed the first time through. As expected, really. I think this is one I’m going to have to read/listen to at least 5 times to get most of Craven’s moves.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Fifth Sparrow Rising by Cindi Hartley |
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith |
Hartley’s book is a sweet dose of encouragement–I’ll try to say more soon.
I had forgotten, somehow, almost all of this Rivers of London book after the first couple of chapters. Shame on me. There’s so much to enjoy.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Return to Sender by Craig Johnson |
Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin, read by Sally Phillips |
I keep letting new releases sit on my shelf while I’m working on other things this year–I’m putting my foot down now and will read the new Longmire book this week. That’s for many reasons–primarily because there are too many people in Real Life that are going to be annoyed if I can’t talk to them about it soon.
I’ve got nothing to say about Life Hacks… really, was browsing and it looked cute.
How are you closing this month?
allysonyj
I am currently reading “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski. This was a best-seller a few years back and I’ve had it on my TBR shelf for a while. Well-written with the sort of story that haunts you – in fact I was stuck at a bad place until my son saw it on my table and told me how much he admired it. Now I have to finish!
Also plugging away at “Writers on WWII”, a collection of snippets from writers of the period writing about the period, presented year by year. – William Manchester Andre Gide and James Jones kicked off 1943. If you are a WWII buff, this is a great collection, with plenty of resources for further reading.
Just finished reading Walter Tevis’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” A Great Read! So many surefire tropes – the orphan abused in the orphanage, the oddball who ciscovers a marvelous hidden talent, the girl who succeeds against all odds in a man’s arena – wondering why it took so long to make it to a TV series (which I watched after having read the book – the series was very good but the book is better.)
And finished “The Fox Wife” by Yangsze Choo which I picked up in an airport – couldn’t resist as my first novel (which tanked, unfortunately) also was framed by the Chinese legend of the fox spirit. This novel has two points of view, that of the fox-lady and of the detective who is trying to find her. Not bad, if you like Asian fantasy.
Next I may try to get back to “The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, which I stopped reading when I could see something bad was about to happen to a character I liked. (I’ve gotten to be a sissy in my reading, I guess.) I’ll grit my teeth and get past it.
HCNewton
I remember thinking that moments of Edgar Sawtelle were brilliant. I’m not sure about the rest 🙂
You’ve been plugging away at the WWII book for a while now…must be worth it to keep going.
I’ve put books aside for that very reason myself. Usually not for long, but I get it.