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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| The World Entire by Jo Perry |
Songs for Other People’s Weddings by David Levithan with songs by Jens Lekman, read by Jefferson Mays |
A year-and-a-half late on The World Entire, which has bugged me all along. Now that I’m almost halfway in and can say with a degree of certainty that this is Jo Perry’s best work to date, it really annoys me that I let this slip through the cracks repeatedly. It’s just excellent on several levels–and probably more than I’ve seen yet.
Levithan’s latest is wonderful–flawed, but wonderful. I’m finishing it today (and not just because Libby is taking it away this evening).
What did you recently finish reading?
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| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis |
Small Favor by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters |
I’m a few months behind schedule on my Chronicles of Narnia read, but revisiting this first volume was just as good as expected. And yes, I’m reading them in the (correct) order by publication.
Thanks to a wonky work schedule, Small Favor is still my last audiobook (that’ll hopefully change later today)
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| And to All a Good Bite by David Rosenfelt |
The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks, read by Emma Gregory |
There are few pleasures more certain than an Andy Carpenter book.
As it is wont to do, Libby dropped a bunch of audiobooks on me last week, so I had to derail my planned next book. This one looks promising, and like it should tick a lot of boxes. Looking forward to diving in.
You have any recommendations from your recent reads? Any big “must get to”s before the calendar flips to 2026?
allysonyj
Hmm, where was I? Since the month started I have completed vol 3 of Philip Jose Farmer’s classic “Riverworld” series – not as absorbing as the first 2 volumes, partly because it was originally intended to be a single volume comprising both “The Dark Design” and “The Magic Labyrinth” but the publisher thought a 900 page volume would be a tough sell. “Design” has that muddy-middle feeling where the author just wanted to get the plot down and meant to come back later for character development.
I also finished my Book Club obligation (and that’s what it felt like) Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass” a long and preachy set of essays on “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants.” Maybe when it came out in 2013 it was a fresh view of interaction with the world, but 12 years later it seems I’ve been hearing forever about how much better the Indians treated the land and how ghastly our consumer society is for the natural world. Kimmerer’s vignettes of her walks with nature and her recounting of indigenous myths are charming, but it felt like homework to read her recurring recriminations.
I’m currently reading “The Magic Labyrinth”, and still working at Fanney Burnery’s “Evalina”, a Victorian age best-selling epistolary novel.
Next I’d like to read the new epistolary novel “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans, which I’ve heard a lot of buzz about, but my library doesn’t have it yet. Maybe I’ll pick up another book off my TBR shelf. There’s a new John Irving out, and I have one by him I haven’t read, so “Maggot” may be the one.
HCNewton
The Correspondent was nice, I think you’ll like it more than I did. I’ve been seeing a lot about the Kimmerer book lately–or at least have been seeing the book everywhere. Thanks for making it clear that I shouldn’t indulge any curiosity I might have had.