
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’ve not made any progress on Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson since last week. I’m also between books at the moment. Things have been a bit busy. Essentially, I’ve started training for a freelance remote job, on top of my full time one, which has and (hopefully) will be taking up more of my time, so my reading progress will likely slow as I rearrange my priorities.
Recently Finished
Over the weekend I finished reading Hellboy: The God Machine by Thomas Sniegoski, and even managed a pretty quick turn-around on the review and got it up on Monday afternoon. Go me! This book has wound up being my favourite among the Hellboy spin-off, mostly non-canon novels, though ultimately I only rated it a little higher than average. The book’s focus on the villainous characters really helped it to stand out among the pack, making them both monstrous and sympathetic. A few of them were a little too one-dimensional for me by the end, but their leader and a couple others stood out well. The climactic showdown was conceptually fairly rote, but in the execution managed to be something quite memorable and exciting too.
Reading Next
I meant to have started reading Sensor by Junji Ito already, but like I said I’ve been busy, so I haven’t had a chance to just yet. It isn’t very long, so hopefully I can have it read and reviewed by next week. I also plan to start reading Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis. I’ve followed the author’s video work on and off for years now and even preordered this book for its release last year, but sadly I let it languish instead of reading it. Now, the sequel is coming out soon, so I’d better actually read this. Getting this done will keep me on top of the reading challenge books I put together for a Summer TBR too.
Until next week, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.
Enjoy your reading!
I just started reading Dune!
I hope you enjoy it. I’m often curious about checking it out, but I find the page count intimidating.
Congrats on the freelance gig! I hope it goes swimmingly for you. I started a new job in April and it has taken me this long to iron out the when and the how of reading and blogging. I doubt it will take you that long.
Love Emily Dickinson. There is an amazing book of her poetry that she wrote on found piece of paper that fit to the shape of the scraps – crafty poetry I called it – and she won me over again.
Thank you, I’m hopeful it will work out well, though I’ll be a lot busier than normal.
Dickinson’s poetry really is lovely, I just have trouble reading poetry like this. I too easily zone out, reading the words but retaining nothing. It takes a lot more focus, but I want to expand some of my reading habits too.
I have always wanted to be the kind of person who could spout out memorized poetry but, so far, I only have one Robert Frost poem in the brain box.