WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog! Feel free to leave a link to your own down below as well.
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Currently Reading
I’m still in the middle of reading Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, and the experience continues to be an interesting one at the very least. His essays are excellently written, but what I’m having diminishing returns with is how much he writes about music and sports. I dislike neither topics, but don’t have an especially big interest in them either. The football essay was especially in-depth, though fortunately I used to play so I was able to appreciate much of it, even if I’m not an active fan of any league. Often his discussions of these subjects do tie into greater ideas about culture as well, which is all the better. I just can’t help being a little disappointed in what he chooses to focus on.
Over the weekend I started reading The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. It’s a classic science fiction novel about a village that has a visitation from a UFO that makes everything in the village fall unconscious. A day later it is gone and soon after it’s discovered that all the women in the village are pregnant. What I’m pleasantly surprised by with this book is how much it has been exploring the social impact of sudden, inexplicable pregnancies throughout a village. I would have expected it to gloss over this part of the story, but the troubling implications of the event and the ways women are handling it is being explored more than I thought a novel written in the 1950s would.
Recently Finished
Nothing for this week. Shame on me. June has been a slower month for some reason. Certainly feels like it, anyway.
Reading Next
I’m definitely going to start The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor next, though I would like to at least finish up with Eating the Dinosaur first. Lot 37 will be a supplemental read too, so I do still have to figure out what novel to read next, but there is plenty of time for that. In terms of comic books I will likely read A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, Rafael Albuquerque, and Rafael Scavone. It is a graphic novel adaptation of a story that appeared in Giaiman’s collection Fragile Things. I’m excited to see it adapted into a visual medium.
Until next week, thank you for reading!
Muse with Me 
Eating The Dinosaur sounds interesting indeed! Have a wonderful week and happy reading! Here’s my WWW.
It really is, just not quite what I was expecting. It sure has been great for mixing things up a bit though, since I picked it up on a whim and just dove in.
Enjoy your reading!
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Thank you! I hope you do as well.
The Buying of Lot 37 sounds interesting. Enjoy! My WWW
Thanks! I’m looking forward to revisiting the episodes from that volume.
I like your selection of reads; they’re very interesting – I’m intrigued by your description of The Midwich Cuckoos, will have to give it a read!
Wyndham has been consistently intriguing for me, especially compared to other older sci-fi authors. Apparently Margaret Atwood consider Midwich Cuckoos to be his masterpiece too, which I just learned last night, and I’m starting to see why. I hope you enjoy checking it out!
Interesting fact, makes me want to read it even more!
Yeah I think I would struggle with essays that are heavy on football and music. It does sound like an otherwise fascinating read though.
I’m actually surprised how accessible he has made the essays about music, having read a couple more since yesterday. It’s a medium I appreciate but am very out of touch with, yet I haven’t felt out of my depth while reading this book.