I literally just remembered it was Wednesday. Better get this done.
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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| Guns of Brixton by Paul D. Brazill |
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach |
My first Brazill book will not be my last. This is fast, frenzied, and oh so fun (and not nearly as bloody as I thought it would be when I started…although I still have 40 pages to go, so I could be wrong).
Replaceable You is your typical Mary Roach–packed with a lot of info, some interesting conversations, some quality jokes, and jokes I wish she’d lost in editing.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Soul Taken by Andrew Givler |
Enemy of My Enemy by Alex Segura, read by Michael David Axtell |
I had a blast with Soul Fraud, as I mentioned a few times earlier today.
Enemy of My Enemy was a great mix of Crime Fiction and Super-Heroes. I should have a post up about it tomorrow.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Worse than a Lie by Ben Crump |
This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page |
I’m in the mood for some Crime Fiction with a conscience. I’m glad I have Crump’s book sitting on my desk.
This book from Page is either going to annoy me greatly with how treacly it is, or will make me swoon.
Are you using a book to distract yourself from Tax Day? Or are you too busy scrambling to get them done for something that frivolous?
allysonyj
oh, you did post! I didn’t scroll down far enough. Here’s my response:
I’m still reading at “The Chinese Typewriter” by Thomas S. Mulhaney. The Introduction and Acknowledgements were so beautifully written that I was seduced into reading the main text – unfortunately, that has subsided into a morass of academic references and cross-references. I wish this author would write a memoir or a novel!
I just finished “Theo of Golden”, a surprise bestseller from a self-published author who now has a contract with Simon and Schuster and a bunch of YouTube videos chronicling his success. I wish, of course, as any indie author would, to find the key to fame and fortune from his story. The book is right in the genre of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” and “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” – a feel-good story about someone who sees the good in everyone and makes it happen. I skimmed a lot.
And I finished David Niven’s “Bring On the Empty Horses” which has been my bedside book for so long I haven’t been mentioning it. This is a sprightly collection of anecdotes about the stars and movie moguls of Hollywood’s Golden Age, which Niven puts from 1935-1960. Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy – Niven knew (and apparently went fishing) with them all. A perfect bedside book as you can pick it up anytime and read another story.
Next, I will read “The Last Spike” by Pierre Bouton. I thought this would be about Leland Stanford and the gold spike at Promontory Point, Utah, but instead it is about the completion of the Canadian cross-country railway. A story well-known to everyone north of our border, apparently, but totally new to me.