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 made some pretty good progress in Alien 3 by Pat Cadigan; I only have a little over 100 pages left to read, so I’m really hopeful that I will have it done by Halloween. I must say, my enthusiasm for this book has mellowed the further I’ve gotten into it. I don’t actually think that I like the changes they’ve made to how the Xenomorph works, as its ability to infect others seems so effective that it feels arbitrary who does and who does not become infected. I was hoping it was more of an on-the-fly adaptation than such a dramatic change. It’s making me think this story had a huge influence on future projects like the film Prometheus too. I’ve also learned that this book is based on the first draft, which had more of an action tone, while the second draft felt more like Alien with only a few creatures; I really wish the novel followed the latter.
Recently Finished
As per my plans, I managed to read through the entirety of The Haar by David Sodergren on Monday. Unlike my last, fairly recent read-through of a book in one sitting, I liked this book a lot, though it didn’t end up being what I expected at all. This will perhaps sound cornier than the execution, but it was infinitely more of a “my monster boyfriend” type of story than I was expecting, though it includes some exceptionally grotesque descriptions of gore and takes itself appropriately seriously. It really resonated with me as a “folk” horror novel, and I really loved Muriel as a protagonist. Though it wasn’t as scary as I was hoping, if you look below the surface of the story as it unfolds it is potentially a lot darker than it lets on, making for something perhaps more ambiguous than you might at first realize. This book has passed as a test reading, at any rate, and I now plan to buy more of Sodergren’s books in the future.
Reading Next
For now, I don’t have many concrete plans. I’m strongly considering reading through a digital copy of the art book for the video game Scorn that came with my copy, since I’ve recently beaten the game, and I still want to read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman before Halloween too, but I haven’t decided on a full novel yet.
Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.
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