It’s Wedneday again, so here I go answering the threes Ws:
- What are you currently reading?
- What have you recently finished reading?
- What are you reading next?
And linking up with Taking on a World of Words. I don’t know if I’ll keep participating, though, since both times so far I only got one comment back, even though I visited quite a few blogs and left a comment — I guess no one’s much interested in mine. Which is fine, but I have limited time and energy, and stuff that doesn’t catch anyone’s interest needs to be the first to go.
What are you currently reading?
I’m actually between books, sort of. I mean, I have a lot of books on the go at once, but they’re mostly a little bit stalled, or only just started — I often have a few of those around and one book that I’m really focusing on, and I haven’t picked that latter yet. I guess I’m most interested in finally finishing up Sailor’s Delight, by Rose Lerner: I really like the characters and the setting, it’s just that the yearning by a particular character was a little intense, and I was looking for something lighter at the time.
What have you recently finished reading?
I finished A City on Mars by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith last night, and I loooved it. It’s unfortunately quite pessimistic about the prospects for space settlements, but in a way that’s realistic rather than just trying to naysay or something. They have good reasons, relating to all the things we don’t know about human biology, the technology we don’t have yet, and the legal frameworks that don’t really yet have good safeguards. It’s a fun read, since it doesn’t get too bogged down in detail (it’s definitely for laypeople).
What are you reading next?
I’m not sure! I know that Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire is my #DoubleSpin book for the Litsy #BookSpin challenge, so maybe I’ll read that now and make sure I don’t leave it to the last minute. The new book in the series appears to have dinosaurs in it, so I’d love to catch up with the ones I haven’t read before and get to that!
What about you? What are you reading?
I actually never link up my WWW Wednesday posts. It never seemed to be used much (or generate any visits). I still do the posts (but I find them interesting and enjoy seeing them from others) but I don’t bother linking.
Sailor’s Delight sounds interesting… hopefully it will spark your interest enough again to want to finish it. 🙂
Ideally I’d like to keep doing it too, but I do some similar stuff elsewhere and it all adds up. I don’t know how I used to keep up with everything!
I really like Sailor’s Delight, I don’t know why I stalled on it to be honest! Just a bit too intense for my mood right then, I think.
A City on Mars sounds interesting – I enjoy space-y books, especially those exploring a particular angle of what might be possible.
I found it really enjoyable! And the writing style was really accessible too — sometimes when it gets overly technical I can’t keep my attention on it, even if I love the topic, but this was perfect.
I’ll admit the dinosaurs in the latest Wayward book have galvanized me to start that series, although I’ve been meaning to for a bit. And it saddens me that we may (probably) will not have a Mars colony in my lifetime, but yeah… the challenges are pretty immense!
I hadn’t realised how far away it really was, I must admit! It’s not a topic I paid a lot of attention to in the last few years, so I thought maybe we were closer… but nope!
Nice to hear about A City on Mars, it’s been on my TBR.
Enjoy your week
Ooh, hope you enjoy it too! I thought it was really well done.