I finished my Goodreads Challenge last week, which was a nice little dopamine hit–the books I’ve been reading have basically been nothing but dopamine hits, but who doesn’t want more of that?
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 Judgement of Powers by Benedict Jacka |
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters |
Jacka’s new series keeps going in places and directions I don’t expect. I’m eager to see how he confounds me this time.
I remember Turn Coat having one of the more powerful endings in the Dresden Files (nothing compared to a few others, but still). I’m steeling myself already.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| The Last Colony by John Scalzi |
The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks, read by Emma Gregory |
The Last Colony is yet another of those books that I intended to read years ago (since 2011, according to Goodreads). I am so angry at myself for wasting all that time not being able to re-read it.
I’m honestly not sure what Brooks was going for in his book. There were some interesting bits, some decent writing, and solid characters–but I need to think a little more about it to know if it was worth it.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis |
Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox & Nelle Fortenberry |
Caspian might be my favorite Narnian book, so this is going to be fun.
Speaking of fun, Fox (and Fortenberry) writing about that strange period in his life when he was shooting Back to the Future and Family Ties and then narrating it? Sure thing.
How’ve you been sourcing your dopamine lately?
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I’m currently reading “Destiny of the Republic”, Candice Millard’s excellent chronicle of the rise and assassination of James Garfield. I picked it up after a long neglect after watching and really enjoying the same story told by the Netflix series “Death by Lightning” Not sure I’ll be able to finish it, though, as we are past the assassination and only halfway through the book. I fear the last half will be full of the grisly details of Garfield’s 70+ days of lingering under the malignant care of his doctors.
Also still working on Fanney Burney’s “Evalina”, which is pretty ridiculous but oddly fascinating.
Just finished rereading a later Narnia chronicle than your “Prince Caspian”, C. S. Lewis’s “The Silver Chair.” I love Jill in this book, though Eustace has become a bit of a bore, after having been sucked into Narnia so unwillilngly but entertainingly in “The Dawn Treader ” (perhaps my favorite of the series.
Next I may take another crack at “The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, now that I’m caught up on my Goodreads challenge (actually a book or two ahead,though not near finishing. )