The three ‘W’s are what are you reading now, what have you recently finished reading, and what are you going to read next, and you can find this week’s post at the host’s blog here if you want to check out other posts.
What are you currently reading?
I only have two books left on my currently reading list! Kushiel’s Dart, though I haven’t made any progress since last week, and Dark Sky, though I haven’t touched that in aaaages. I have a new project now where I have to finish two books from my currently reading list before I can start a new one, and that’s been going really well. Once I’ve caught up, it’ll be “two books from a series for one new book”, to make sure I actually make progress with that too!
What have you recently finished reading?
Yoon Ha Lee’s Raven Stratagem and The Godless, by Ben Peek. The former was awesomesauce, even though I stalled on it a while for non-narrative reasons. I finished it and just… daaaaamn. The latter, eh, I do not love it. I enjoyed some of the worldbuilding, but I just didn’t enjoy the characters or feel that everything was necessarily explained properly in terms of the actions people took and why. Pretty important whether people are doing politics on a grand scale or just interpersonal relations.
What will you be reading next?
Probably Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould’s book about the Burgess Shale. That’s what I’ve got queued up as my break from fiction in general and my currently reading list specifically. (It’s not that I don’t want to read them, I’m just fidgety in all things and like having a bit of variation.
What are you reading?
Wonderful Life is…wonderful!
I’m enjoying it! Though spending lots of time googling for the latest updates on stuff like Hallucigenia too… 😀
I heard somewhere that a formation of similar age in China has equally bizarre (and different) fauna.
The Maotianshan shales, maybe? But yeah, thank goodness for shale formations or we’d be missing out on so much!
I don’t remember the name, unfortunately.
I haven’t touched Gone With the Wind or The Fiery Cross in aaaaaages. Like…12 years. I stopped reading GWTW as a college sophomore. I know The Fiery Cross followed within six months. I STRUGGLE picking these two back up, even though I LOVE the Outlander series and so want to finish it. Isn’t it such a roadblock sometimes? I think your system is great!! I’m (kinda) doing something similar to get through my NetGalley back log (also another aaaaaages story).
Ugh, don’t mention Netgalley, I don’t even dare look at that backlog! One thing at a time. 😛
I still can’t get motivated to read. I really need to try and read tonight…it’s driving me mad! Hope you have a good reading week!
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Ugh, I bet! I can’t go without reading for too long or I get twitchy, even if I can’t actually get motivated for it.