WWW Wednesday September 4th, 2019

With the busy summer I have not had a chance to write a whole lot, but I have been able to get through some books and wanted to join WWW Wednesday this week!

The Three W’s for WWW Wednesday are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

I just started reading Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.  It’s okay.  I like that it is a fast read, but I feel like it is a story I have heard before and told better.  The book won a lot of awards so maybe the best is yet to come.  And I should also point out that when we were headed out to a sports practice I asked one of the kids to pick any book off my night stand for me to read.  This is the one they chose – and maybe I would like this one if I read it a different time?  I don’t know.  Time will tell.

What did you recently finish reading?

I recently finished Dead Wake by Erik Larson.  I have to make a confession – I am not much a fan of non-fiction books.  I spent so much time reading non-fiction through all my years of schooling that when I got time to read the LAST thing I wanted to do was pick up another piece of information.  Fiction books were my candy – my treat.  BUT I have found a few non-fiction writers that I can read (and enjoy!).   Erik Larson is one such author and I love his books.  This one did not disappoint and was a very interesting and enjoyable read about the sinking of the Lusitania and America’s entrance into WWI.

Before that I read You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld.  This book was a collection of short stories and I really enjoyed reading them.  So much so that I will be checking other works by Sittenfeld in the future.

Before that I read A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.  I really enjoyed this book.  The Count’s attitude and demeanor in such strange circumstances never did disappoint.  A true gentleman.  From Goodreads: In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Before that I read I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb.  I chose this book because I have really enjoyed other works by Lamb.  Not going to lie, the story was kind of silly.  Fantastical at best.  But I really enjoyed the main character.  I learned that if you give me a great main character then I guess you can do any sill thing you’d like with them.

Lastly, I read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.  I really liked this book.  Not sure if this is a spoiler but you kind of knew where this book was headed from the start.  But the story was very engaging and the characters, likeable.  And on a side note, I always enjoy looking at the cover a book after I’ve read it to see how the graphics on the books cover applied to the story.  This one did not disappoint.

What do you think you’ll read next?

Not sure, but if things don’t get better with the book I am reading now, one thing is for sure.  I am picking it out myself.

Thank you, Sam for hosting WWW Wednesday!