I anticipated having nothing but energy after a week’s vacation, and yet…anyway. I managed to get this put together, and hopefully I’ll have a post or two tomorrow of substance.
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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| Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir |
The Summer War by Naomi Novik, read by Ella Lynch |
I’m about a hundred pages into Gideon the Ninth and I’m not sure this book is for me–but I’m interested enough to keep going (also, the book club meeting is Monday, and I want to be ready for it).
It’s been too long since I’ve spent time in Novik’s writing. The premise of this short work intrigued me, too. Pretty sure this brief book is going to hit hard.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Callus & Crow by D. B. Rook |
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow |
Rook takes a bunch of ideas and genres and mashes them together. Mostly successfully. This is a creepy read with some characters that are going to stay with me.
I’m not sure I think that Doctorow’s prescriptions are the right way to go (I sure can’t think of better ones, though–at least they’d be good starts), but his “why everything suddenly got worse” feels pretty spot-on. The book isn’t that hopeful, because I really don’t see a lot of people being interested in fixing things.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi |
An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict Jacka, read by Will Watt |
Time to actually make progress in The Old Man’s War series!
Time to get a quick refresher on The Inheritance of Magic series!
You been reading anything good while the leaves turn around you?
Bob Germaux
I’m currently reading “12 Months to Live,” a joint effort by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. Usually, I stay away from books by famous authors and . . . often a son or daughter. In this case, since I’m a huge fan of Lupica, I decided to give it a try. And I’m glad I did. There are a LOT of chapters (over 100). I suspect Patterson and Lupica traded off writing chapters. At any rate, I’m enjoying it immensely, especially the way most of the chapters have cliff-hanging endings. The protagonist, a defense lawyer named Jane Smith, is very likeable, and she has a life issue to deal with throughout the case she is trying. So far, I recommend it.
I just finished reading “The Paris Novel” by famed foodie Ruth Reichl. I wasn’t sure I would enjoy this book, since, unlike my wife (who recommended it), I’m not a foodie. But Cynthia said anyone who’d been to Paris (where we spent our 40th wedding anniversary) would like this, and she was right. Even if you’re not a foodie and haven’t been to Paris, I think you’d like this, too.
Next up will probably be “Mel Brooks: All About Me.” I read the sample and laughed out loud several times. Also, Mel was born twenty years before me and is still around at the age of 99. Gives a fella hope.