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!
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 making my way through The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, but with it being the only book I’m currently reading I think I’m going to give it greater attention before I move on to anything else. It’s time this got finished. The funny thing I realized while reading further is, while the arc in this volume concerns the use of Lot 37, the actual buying took place many episodes ago. Episode 37, in fact. This collection starts with episode 50, so as it turns out they waited a fair bit before starting to make good on this subplot. I just find it funny that the actual buying of Lot 37 does not take place in the book The Buying of Lot 37. How about that.
Recently Finished
Over the weekend I decided it was high time I continue the Doctor Aphra series of Star Wars comic books with the third volume Remastered by Kieron Gillen et al. I actually thought this volume was where Simon Spurrier would be taking over as writer, but it turns out that’s not until the next volume. Spurrier only wrote one issue here. I thought this volume was excellent, in any case. 0-0-0, the psychotic murder-droid, has Aphra at his beck and call, forcing her to bring together a delightful menagerie of questionable characters to uncover the secrets of where his programming came from and what his life before his software was quarantined was.
I also finished reading Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson just yesterday, which I’m happy to add to my finished pile of new Star Wars novels. I should have a review up for it soon. The reading experience for this book was a little bizarre for me. I appreciated how it tried to tell a different sort of story in this universe, but the bulk of the novel stumbled a bit for me. There was something missing in the telling that left the narrative’s hold on me a little flimsy. The final chapters, however, were actually excellent. Most of the book is essentially a flashback, told by a spy being interrogated. Once the revelations of this tale effects the present I was way more engrossed in what happened next. It’s given me such mixed feelings.
Reading Next
I still have every intention of reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid next, but I want to finish Lot 37 first. In the meantime, I will be reading volume four of Doctor Aphra soon too: The Catastrophe Con by Simon Spurrier et al. I suppose this is the real test if Spurrier has legs with this character or not. His addition to the previous volume was seamless, so I’m hopeful. I wish I was better at making up my mind about what comics to read next. I’ve got plenty left unread, I’m just picky if it’s not Star Wars or Hellboy for some reason. I vex myself.
Until next week, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.
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Can’t say I’ve read a book with most of the story explained in a flashback. Not sure how I’d feel about that. Happy Reading, Ryan!
Flashback isn’t quite the right word; it’s more that the bulk of the novel is framed around an interrogation where the one being interrogated is made to tell the story. It’s not a character literally dictating the story, but the bulk of the novel takes place in the past relative to the frame’s present.
Exit West has been on my shelf since it came out but I keep getting distracted with other books. Hope you get to it. Here’s my WWW: https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/www-wednesdays-july-17-2019/
That’s pretty much the boat I’ve been in with it as well, which is why I’m making a point of getting to it now. Have a good week!
Enjoy your reading!
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Sounds like you’ve had mixed luck with your reads. Hopefully you’ll manage to get Lot 37 finished and your next reads will be good ones.
Thanks, it hasn’t been all that bad though, I am consistently enjoying Lot 37, so I won’t need to get through that before reading becomes more enjoyable. Phasma did throw me for a loop a bit though. It ended strong but I felt like I had to push through so much to get to that point.