WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking On a World of Words that highlights three questions:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you'll read next?
What did you recently finish reading?
I re-read Cinder by Marissa Meyer over the weekend after deciding I wanted to complete The Lunar Chronicles series after reading the first book about 12 years ago now. I really enjoyed this sci-fi cinderella retelling, it's cleverly done and has a super fun plot but I thought the ending was very abrupt.
What are you currently reading?
I've been dragging my feet with Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple a little bit considering I started it on the first day of the month and I'm barely 60 pages in. I'm going to focus on it over the next few days and see how I go but so far the writing isn't grabbing me.
I've only read the first chapter of The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya and I'm intrigued to see where the story goes from there. I picked this up as I'm trying to partake in StoryGraph's Read Around the World Challenge and this is for the country Afghanistan. Not sure it's normally something I'd pick up but always fun to venture out of your comfort zone.
What do you think you'll read next?
I need to get a move on with my library books cause I've got about three weeks before they need to go back (and I need to renew my account so can't borrow them for longer) so The Enchanters by James Ellroy is up next.
Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash.
The freewheeling Freddy tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux -sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.
It’s the Summer of ’62, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away.
Have you read any of these? What were your thoughts? What are you currently reading and hoping to pick up next? Leave a comment or link your own WWW Wednesdays below for me to check out!
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