I’m sure it wasn’t the most appropriate way to commemorate the day, but I really enjoyed the bonus reading day on Monday — and, for a change, I took advantage of it. I’m at least one book ahead of where I expected to be today. I’m not going to be able to pull all of it off–but my January TBR is feeling largely doable. For today, anyway.
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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| Twelve Months by Jim Butcher |
The Librarians by Sherry Thomas, read by Louisa Zhu |
The fact that I’m posting this, or working, or acknowledging I have a wife and dogs while I have Twelve Months to focus on is rather surprising. I’m just in full geek-out mode.
I’m still getting a sense of The Librarians, the setting and characters are charming as all get out–but I’m still waiting for the plot to start. We’ll see how it goes from there.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Lit by Tim Sandlin |
Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor |
Sandlin’s cozy doesn’t feel all that cozy, but technically is one. It’s a hoot. Idaho does not come off well in this book, I will recommend it soon regardless.
Oh wow. This audio version of Ozark Dogs is just as powerful as the novel–only losing a bit of its punch because I revisited it. Cranor is a fantastic narrator, I should add.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson |
The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard, read by Stephanie Németh-Parker |
I’m looking forward to seeing for myself how Anderson’s book lives up to the description (click the link) or to the good things that people are saying about it (like Jodie did)
I don’t remember what it was about Chouinard’s book that got it put on my hold list–I’m just going to trust that former me knew what he was doing. It’s been a minute before I dabbled in a light-hearted serial killer book.
Any book(s) have you excited lately?
allysonyj
Currently reading “The Wayfinder”, Adam Johnson’s 700-page saga of the South Seas. Not sure I love it yet, but I’m tenacious. Also reading non-fiction – Mulhally’s “The Chinese Typewriter”, a scholarly work about an arcane subject (heard of “technolinguistics” anyone?) and so well-written. Also “Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement”, edited by my friend Terry Kupers, including essays by the people who have endured time in the Hole.
Finished reading “The Frozen River” by Ariel Lawton, a compelling book about a midwife in post-revolutionary war (1789) Maine. And “Pearls Before Swine” a light-hearted comedy of manners and mystery by Margery Allingham, which I picked up because she was included by two authors of historical fiction as one of the 1930’s “Queens of Crime”, and I had never heard of her. If you like Dorothy Sayers’ shorter pieces about Lord Peter, you might like Allingham’s Albert Campion and his circle of society friends.
Next I will likely read “The Hate U Give”, which has been made into a movie, and which was recommended to me by a son when I asked him some time back “What does ‘woke’ mean?” It’s been sitting on my TBR shelf ever since – I guess I didn’t want to know that badly.
HCNewton
I need to read Sayers’ mysteries. And maybe Allingham, too.
Mulhally’s work sounds potentially interesting–and potentially stultifying, too.
I thought The Hate U Give was great–especially for a YA book. It’s worth the time, IMHO. (dunno about the movie, I didn’t want to mar my memory of the book)