I’m having another one of those weeks where everything is taking approximately 50% more time to do than it should, and I’m distracted from doing everything 70% more than usual. Put the two of those things together, and you get…silence on this here blog. So, here I am trying to make a little noise.
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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| Nice Places by Vicent Chu |
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love edited by Alice Hoffman |
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames, Katherine Fenton |
I haven’t made much progress in Nice Places, and I’m really not sure where Chu’s going with this. But I’m really enjoying the journey.
I’m tackling an essay each evening for the next couple of weeks from The Best Dog in the World. Bonnie Garmus has convinced me to give Lessons in Chemistry a try because of hers. I’m assuming she won’t be the last one to do so.
Following on the heels of Kings of the Wyld, I decided to tackle Bloody Rose on audiobook (if only to reduce Mt. TBR by a hair). Putting the two so close together, I’m doing a better job of understanding and appreciating the differences in tone and focus between the two.
What did you recently finish reading?
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| Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames |
The Terminal List by Jack Carr, read by Ray Porter |
Kings of the Wyld had everything I remembered–humor, heart, action, and fantastic fantasy creatures. It’s one that I’m glad to see holds up to multiple re-reads.
Well, The Terminal List proved that I will listen to Ray Porter read anything. That’s all I can say about it.
What do you think you’ll read next?
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| Go Gentle by Maria Semple |
The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander, read by Words Take Wing Repertory Co |
The library due date for Semple’s new book is looming, time to jump on it.
I forgot I had The Arkadians waiting for me. Ooops. So, it’s again the next one on my list 🙂
Tell me something good about a book you just finished and/or are working through.
allysonyj
currently re-reading “the Forsyte Saga” because I mentioned to my husband that I thought we had a copy but couldn’t find it and he bought the first volume for me for my birthday. Also just started “the Quidcunx” series by Charles Palliser, a huge tome picked up off the library 25-cent cart. Also started “Flashlight” by Susan Choi, an award-winner with some great writing, excellent use of different points of view – really liking this one. And nearly done with “The Chinese Typewriter” which I am finishing only because I’m compulsive – the Acknowledgements and Foreword were so beautifully written, but the book itself has descended into academianese.
Just finished Sigrid Nunez’ “The Friend” – a sortof memoir in which she examines death, grief, memory, friendship, loyalty, and the mystery of what dogs think of the world. Unfortunatey, she indulges in the kind of narrative trick at the end which wins book awards (it won the National Book Award for fiction) but leaves the reader feeling a bit cheated.
Did not finish Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories “Smoke and Mirrors.” I usually like Gaiman’s twisting of traditional fairy tales and myths, but this collection was REALLY DARK. (It includes “Snow, Glass, Apples” which was redone as a very lovely -though dark- graphic novel).
To make up for the darkness, I read “Eleanor and the Marquis” by Janet Wilby, a bit of Regency fluff. Not up to Georgette Heyer, but a nice relief from all this modern seriousness.
I’m off on a three week walking tour of Portugal and Spain tomorrow, so I don’t expect to finish much of the above.
HCNewton
A walking tour of Portugal and Spain? My feet and ankles hurt just reading that (and my knees refuse to consider the notion), as appealing as that sounds. Yeah, not much reading is going to get done–but what an experience!