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?

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Currently Reading

I’m still slowly making my way through Video Game of the Year by Jordan Minor; ideally, I want to read two entries a day, but I haven’t quite gotten myself there yet. Still, I read at least two when I do pick it up, and it’s making for some great bit-sized reading. I’ve reached the 1990s, so it’s starting to get into games I actually have some experience with, with the exception of PC titles that passed me by. I’m really enjoying the addition of the “Extra Life” section after each entry that highlights another game of that year, as well as other semi-related titles, so that any possibly glaring omissions get some attention. The medium is full of great games after all, but only one can be featured for each year. I’m glad Minor was able to find a way to make room for so much more.

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Recently Finished

I’m happy to report that I managed to finish Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer the other day, sticking to my plan to get it finished before the end of January. I’m also really pleased with how different this book was from the film, as it feels like I can appreciate them better as separate entities now. By its very nature, as the story we’re reading was written by “the biologist” in a field journal, it’s painful yet tantalizing how much has been left mysterious. It’s clear that horrors lurk in Area X, and lifeforms there undergo startling changes in form, but why and how this is all happening and what has happened there as reported in past field journals is so hinted at yet uncertain that I can’t wait to read more. It seems the sequel, Authority, may be written more like a conventional novel (I am speculating), or at least from a more knowledgeable perspective, which I love as a shift in format, starting with an account written in the field—full of discovery and speculation—and then shifting to something more authoritative to grow our understanding.

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Reading Next

I’m still holding out hope that The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens will be returned to the library soon, so for now I’m just going to focus on Video Game of the Year and hope my patience pays off.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.