It’s been over 1.5 months since I participated in WWW Wednesday. The main reason is I took a soft blog hiatus in March. And last week I didn’t feel like spending the time to write one. But I’m still around! Don’t worry, I won’t include everything I’ve read in the last 1.5 months or so…that’d be a long post!
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
QUEEN OF SHADOWS by Sarah J. Maas: I’m over 70% through this 650-page book. SJM loves to shock her readers near the end of each book. So I’m sure I’m in for a surprise or two. Everyone’s storylines haven’t quite crossed paths yet, but things are getting set up.
MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe: This is an audiobook I checked out via Libby. I almost decided to let my hold lapse, but I’m glad I didn’t. It’s really entertaining, but also brings up a lot of societal irony about hardships single mothers deal with and how to make ends meet. I’m loving the relationship that’s growing between Margo and her father. Right now it’s coming off as one of my favorites of the year. “A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.“
CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Seolyeon Park: This fiction title caught my eye as I was browsing my library’s new books section a few weeks ago. I’m only 25 pages in or so to this 190-page translated book. It’s set during Japan-occupied Korea in the early 20th century. No strong opinions yet, but I like what I’ve read so far. If I wasn’t trying to finish CROWN OF MIDNIGHT I probably would’ve finished this one already! “Winner of 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Award, this work is based directly on the life of Kang Juryong, a female worker who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in Pyongyang in 1931, climbing the roof of Eulmildae to protest working conditions.“
Just Finished
The last book I finished was THE DEMONIC INVENTIONS OF AURELIE BLAKE by Mara Rutherford. If you missed my review, you can read it here. This was the first book of Rutherford’s that I’ve read. Overall, I liked it. It’s upper YA and mostly reads as such.
One of my gripes isn’t about the book itself, rather that I wish publishers would be more up front about what new book is part of a series. This was not described as the first book in a series (duology? I don’t know) when I received a widget. If it had been properly advertised as such, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up because my TBR is massive.
Reading Next
I have a good amount of ARCs I really need to read, as described in my April 2026 TBR. However, my library hold came in for NOBODY’S GIRL by Virginia Giuffre. And I know the holds list is quite long, so I need to read it now or wait another couple months. It will undoubtedly be a very heavy book. “The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
I do think that it’s irritating when a book is clearly going to be part of a series but they don’t signal that up front. You don’t always want to commit to a series. It’s even worse when they don’t tell you that a book is part of a series and it’s not the first one. I’ve had that a couple of times on NG recently. It didn’t matter for the first one but the second definitely relied on you having read the first. Annoying.
I’m really interested to see what Nobody’s Girl is like. I suspect it might be a difficult read .
I’ve been trying to avoid committing to a new series when it’s an ARC…I have enough in my house that I need to finish/start!
I’m 120 pages into Nobody’s Girl and it is definitely a difficult read. I have a pretty tough resolve for most content warnings, but my stomach was hurting after reading some of the SA in it.
I’ve read three books in the past two months that aren’t listed as the start of a series, but when you get to the end, clearly there’s going to be another book! I don’t get it, I’m wondering if publishers are waiting to see if the book does well first before they commit, but why end it on a cliffhanger?
That’s a good theory, but the book very clearly doesn’t have an ending, so the publishers should be courteous and at least say it’s the first book. 🙁
I loved Margo’s Got Money Troubles! Glad to hear you’re enjoying it, too!
Margo’s Got Money Troubles was great! I think it’ll be a favorite of the year for sure!