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
HEIR OF FIRE by Sarah J. Maas: Finally, I started it! There are so many POV in this one. But I’m loving the additional cast of characters. Maas does such a great job depicting trauma, even considering this is her first book series. The first two books are good, but this third one might be what hooks me, we’ll see. I’m 60% in.
MINISTRY OF TRUTH by Steven Benen: I don’t know why I’m reading yet another political book. But I guess when I have the desire to read one I should listen to it because it doesn’t happen often. I’m not too far into this book, maybe 30% or so. While I hadn’t truly forgotten about the disinformation campaign that the 2020 election was stolen, I’d forgotten in the sense that it’s just gotten so much worse and the news is a deluge. It’s just stunning the lies they tell and equally horrific that so many people belief them. “A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time…”
Just Finished
THE FRENCH INGREDIENT by Jane Bertch: This is a lovely memoir about an American expat who starts a cooking school in Paris. The more time she spends there the more she understands and appreciates French culture. So, she shares her astute observations in this approachable memoir. My review for this will be up next week.
BABY X by Kira Peikoff: As I said last week, I don’t usually read thrillers. But the Gattaca comparison snagged my attention. Looking back, I wouldn’t say this was absolutely mind blowing for the genre. After all the reveals it made sense. One surprise minorly annoyed me because it was anachronistic with the other POV. But it was entertaining enough and can recommend it as a good intro to the thriller genre.
I also DNF two books: CLEAR by Carys Davies and MADLY, DEEPLY by Alan Rickman and others. CLEAR isn’t a long book, but I just couldn’t keep everything straight in my head while listening via audiobook. It initially interested me because it’s a historical fiction about the Scottish Clearances, which I had never heard of until I stumbled across this book. And as much as I wanted to like MADLY, DEEPLY, I didn’t realize it’s literally just short diary entries (until I saw Janette mention it). It’s not very interesting, which is a shame because I bought the book a few years ago. Oh well. Kind of a waste of my money, honestly.
Reading Next
I think my next few reads will be ARCs. I might start with A FAE IN FINANCE by Juliet Brooks, which looks like a nice light read after my current reads. While I certainly have other ARCs with earlier publication dates, that’s just how I roll sometimes.
I remember downloading A Fae in Finance and thinking I would read it early. I’m glad you reminded me about it, I still have time!
Definitely still time to read it! I’m going to pick it up next!
Looking forward to your thoughts on A Fae in Finance!
Going to start it next! Hopefully I like it.
It was a shame about Madly Deeply. I did find some of the entries interesting but I was hoping for a more interesting memoir. I’m looking forward to your review of The French Ingredient though which definitely sounds more interesting.
You’re certainly being a glutton for punishment with a second political book. I hope that this isn’t too depressing. I always think the worst thing about this type of book is the feeling of anger and helplessness that you get.
I also wanted an interesting memoir. I don’t know what the point was of publishing his diary entries. Was it a money grab? To preserve it for austerity? Laziness instead of taking the time to turn it into a memoir? No idea!
Yep, reading political books does make me feel angry and helpless. I haven’t picked it up recently because I haven’t done anything too mind numbing these last few days. Instead I’ve been listening to THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
I think that not understanding why they had published his diary entries was my main take away after reading it. A lot of them were meaningless unless you were part of that circle of people so I didn’t really see the point
A Fae in Finance sounds like such an interesting read? 😂 Two words I never thought I’d see together though! I hope you enjoy it 🙂 Happy reading!
It looks nice and light, which is what I’m looking forward to right now! Although I’m super tempted to go straight into the next Throne of Glass book, but I’ll be traveling and don’t want to lug it around.
I’m sorry to hear about the DNFs, especially for the book you brought, it’s always frustrating when those let you down. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed some other books though and hope you continue to enjoy the Throne Of Glass series.
Yea, the Alan Rickman book was a let down. I was hoping it’d be a memoir. I guess I didn’t read the description close enough when I preordered the book a couple years ago.
Throne of Glass is going well! I just finished book 3 today and loved it.
I’d have assumed the same thing tbh, I guess its what readers tend to assume when they see a book by a celebrity.
Yay that’s wonderful. I’m glad you enjoyed that one so much. Throne Of Glass is definitely one of my favourite series. I hope it stays strong for you as you read on 🤞