The last 22 hours have really slipped out of my control, so instead of three posts during the day, I get one up in the evening today.
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 Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter |
A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay, read by Andy Serkis |
Very interesting societal worldbuilding; a magic system that is brutal, bloody, and intriguing; fantastic battle scenes; and a protagonist that is as captivating as he is pitiable. I’m so glad I opened this one up.
I didn’t realize this was Serkis doing the reading of Kay’s first novel until I just looked it up for the above. The book is even worse than I thought it was if I’m as disinterested in it as I am with Serkis elevating the material (at least, I assume he is). I’m less than two hours from the ending, and if the last 15 minutes are any indication, I might end up recommending the book–but you’ve gotta work to get to that point.
What did you recently finish reading?
I was hoping to have a full post up about Fawcett’s delightful new book today. But we’re all going to have to settle for “delightful” for at least another eleven hours. We’ll see if I can do better after that.
I knew going in that I was going to have a lot to disagree with Fugelsang about–but I anticipated something I could enjoy, learn from, and disagree with. This screed is filled with arguments that were tired in the early 20th Century (and before) is so filled with errors, fallacies, and historical inaccuracies that I couldn’t appreciate whatever points I was sympathetic toward. It’s just a mess.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg |
The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley, read by Jacques Roy |
Our favorite arson investigators chase down a serial arsonists with something else even bigger keeping their focus. Can’t wait. Also, I’m using this as a palate cleanser between two huge Fantasy novels full of magic and stabbing. I’m really going to need that, might as well go with a sure-fire winner. (no pun intended)
That’s two audiobooks in a row that haven’t delivered what I wanted. Let’s see if The Fact Checker can break the streak.
What books have gotten under your skin lately?
Bookstooge
Glad you knew going in that you were going to have issues with Separation of Church and Hate. Did you end up getting upset, or just disappointed about it?
HCNewton
ooooh, good question. Never upset–atheists gonna atheist, right? Very annoyed and irked, somewhat disappointed. A lotta double-standards, reading the worst into everything, and not actually interacting with the best of “the/an other side.” A lot of his interpretations of the Bible were tired and shown lacking in the early 20th Century.
There was a way to write that book where I could disagree, but still appreciate it. That is not the book I got.