I don’t have quite as much to recap this week compared to my last WWW Wednesday post. However, I do still want to share what I’ve been up to since I won’t review everything I read this month.

WWW Wednesday was revived and hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The idea is to answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses.

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Currently Reading

WITCHFUL THINKING by Celestine Martin: I won this in a publisher-backed book blogger giveaway a while ago and finally got around to starting it. It’s easy to read and entertaining enough. At >60% through, however, it feels safe to say that this isn’t blowing my socks off. In fact, I’m just a wee bit bored. The author writes the mechanics of the chemistry well (banter, etc.), but I just don’t feel it. They’re just taking their sweet old time to get to the point of discussing past hurt feelings. If I wasn’t reading this for Trope-ical Readathon, I’d probably DNF it. It’s not bad, but I’m not clicking with it like I want to.

THE MONUMENTS MEN by Robert M. Edsel: I’m slowly listening to this audiobook. It’s about 14 hours, which is about my limit for audiobooks. It’s about a group of men authorized to save or protect various cultural buildings during the fighting. They also retrieved and returned art that the Nazis stole.

Recently Finished

LORE OF THE WILDS by Analeigh Sbrana: Oh, I had such high hopes for this! I had an ARC, then received it as a Fairyloot Romantasy subscription special edition (which is gorgeous). Then I read it and it fell so flat. I won’t get too much into it here since I actually wrote a review for this one. I’m sad that I didn’t appreciate it nearly as much as I hoped because it had so many elements that I like in romantasies.

DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP by Satoshi Yagisawa: I keep picking up Japanese-translated literature in the hopes that I’ll find one that I click with. Alas, once again this was not the case. In fact, this is my least favorite of all of the ones I can remember reading. I often feel that the emotions, lessons, etc. are too subdued or subtle for me when it comes to books translated from Japanese. Of course, maybe I haven’t found the right one yet. Stepping back, the story itself is a nice one: woman experiences infidelity, finds herself again working at her uncle’s bookshop, and then goes back into the world. But the sexism in Japanese culture came out in several conversations and I was just over it.

Reading Next

I’ve had some average or dud reads recently, so I really hope I like my next one more. I’ll pick from my Trope-ical Readathon list. At the moment I’m leaning toward YELLOWFACE. But I make no promises since I’m a mood reader. Another contender is THESE TWISTED BONDS.

What are you reading? Do tell!