Oh, hey, it’s Wednesday again already and time for the usual questions:
- What are you currently reading?
- What have you recently finished reading?
- What are you reading next?
Linking up with Taking on a World of Words.
What are you currently reading?
Somewhat on a whim, I started reading George McGavin’s The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life On Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow. Bit of a mouthful, but it tells you most of what you need to know about the book! It’s a bit random in its organisation, like a jumble of all the things McGavin can think to tell people about insects, but there’s some interesting stuff. I want to finish it today.
I’m also a little way into Seanan McGuire’s Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, which feels very much like a direct continuation of Lost in the Moment and Found. Most of these novellas stand alone a little bit, but this one feels like maybe the two should’ve just been one. Anyway, I hope to finish this today too.
What have you recently finished reading?
I think the last thing I finished was Debbie Tung’s Everything Is OK, which is an autobiographical comic about the artist’s journey with anxiety/depression. I think it also tries to be a bit of a general primer on surviving anxiety and depression, at which it fails dramatically through addressing only a very narrow slice of what struggling with mental health is like.
Before that I finished Gina Perry’s The Lost Boys, a look at the psychologist Muzafer Sherif’s life and his Robbers’ Cave experiment. It was not as illuminating as her book on Stanley Milgram, and didn’t feel like it came together as well, but it was interesting.
What are you reading next?
Not sure! I have a few books that I’m technically already partway through which are kind of on the backburner while I finish The Hidden World and Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, so probably I’ll just pick those back up. I’m partway through Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Emma Törzs), which is taking me some time to get into (perhaps mostly just because it’s a little long and I favour short fiction at the moment), and also The Book of Perilous Dishes (Doina Ruști), which I’d like to get back to as well.
There’s always something. What about you?
I hope you enjoy your next read, Nicky! ☕
Thank you!
I’ve never read anything by Seanan McGuire but I know a lot of people love her urban fantasy novels. I only just recently learned that she also writes fiction/horror as Mira Grant.
I really need to actually finish reading her October Daye books! I’ve read some of them, but only the first few. I’m waaaay behind.
The insect book sounds interesting! I just started the novel, “Ida Elizabeth”, and am about to wrap up with a short volume of reflections about trees.
I’ve just finished the book on insects and it was okay! A bit disorganised, I feel, but alright.
Ooh, trees! I have a friend who looooves trees/plants, so I find I’m constantly picking up books about plants thinking of him, hahaha.
Peter Wohlleben’s “Hidden Life of Trees” is the best I know!
I’ve read Seanan’s work under her other pen name, Mira Grant, and really love her. Hope you are enjoying your reads!
I reaaaally liked Feed and the rest of that trilogy! I’ve been meaning to read her murdery mermaids book for ages.
I never did manage to get into Ink Blood Sister Scribe and I tried twice. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it more than I did.
I feel like I’m still in the introductory part, even with 100 pages read… which doesn’t bode too well. I’m wondering when it’s going to get off the ground!