So, I’m relaxing on this bonus quasi-holiday and my wife casually asks, “When are you going to start the crock pot?” Eeep, an hour ago! And in the ensuing dash to throw things together for the extended family dinner tonight, I realize that I didn’t get a pretty important and flavorful ingredient. So…in the tradition of Men Everywhere who put things off, I rush off to the store. Thankfully, not for gift shopping…but still. I now return to the safe ground of talking about books. I can be trusted with books.
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 Last Battle by C.S. Lewis |
Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike, read by Doug Tisdale Jr. |
I’m wrapping up my time in Narnia today.
Son of a Liche is very clever–occasionally hilarious, a little touching, with plenty of intrigue and stabbing. It bugs me that I’m probably leaving it untouched for a few days thanks to my work schedule. (not so much that I’m going to go to work when I don’t have to, mind you)
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire |
Cold Days by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters |
Time with the Wayward Children is always well-spent. This latest installment is just more proof. I should have a full post up Monday–it will be very positive.
Cold Days was just so much better than Ghost Story.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Through the Corner of Circles by Meg Ashley |
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher, read by Robertson Dean |
I was given this book by Ashley’s son, and it sounds pretty good. A little contemporary fantasy, a little Lakota myth. Sounds like a fun combination.
I’d looked at Dear Committee Members before, but never got around to it. I was reminded about it in a conversation last week and decided to give it a whirl.
Are you going to get any reading done over the next few days, or are you going to be occupied with friends/family?
allysonyj
Currently reading an ARC of “The Good Mother Test” by Michael French. I’ll write the review when the book is published and it can do Mike some good. (Mike has written a number of well-received YA books, a couple of self-help non-fiction books, and several novels. Look forward to this one.
Also reading at Nikos Kazantsazis’ “The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel”. It’s a 775 page small print effot to imagine what happened after Ulysses made it back to Ithaca, summed up very well by Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” in only three stanzas. I’m feeling a bit OC about keeping at it.
Have just started “Ending Isolation: the Case Against Solitary Confinement”, a non-fiction work featuring essays by incarcerated people and edited by activists in the effort to end solitary confinement as “cruel and unusual punishment.” Harrowing.
I finished reading “The Flanders Panel” by Arturo Perez-Reverte, translated from the Spanish. A great page-turner – combines art restoration, the discovery of a mysterious clue to a centuries-old murder, a plucky heroine, and chess. If you liked “The Queen’s Gambit” (book or TV series), if you marvel at the discoveries of art restorers, if you have ever visited the Prado Museum in Madrid (some of the key scenes are set there) or just want a change from all those cozy mysteries set in Paris or Florence, this is a fine read.
Next I will read “The Queens of Crime” by Roseanne Limoncelli, which imagines what might happen if Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, and Margery Allingham had gotten together for a girlfriend’s weekend and were confronted with a real mystery to solve. (but how did Limoncelli leave out Josephine Tey?)
And Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfarer” is on hold when it comes in at the library. You know how much I admire his work, looking forward eagerly to his first historical epic.
HCNewton
all sound like worthy reads–or challenges. Something tells me, however, that “Harrowing” is underselling Ending Isolation. Even thinking about reading that book makes me uncomfortable.