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 chipping away at Video Game of the Year by Jordan Minor, though I’ve been making more of a concerted effort this week to getting it finished, and I’m happy to report that I feel like I’m in the home stretch. I’m still enjoying the book well enough, though as it has started to cover more modern games I have found Minor to be a little too opinionated at times; this isn’t to say that the topics and issues he brings up aren’t relevant to the background details around the games being discussed, I just feel he occasionally digresses a little too much and editorializes more than I would want from a book like this.
Recently Finished
I’m especially happy that I was able to finish The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens over the weekend, making good on a recent commitment to reading through more books from the library instead of buying them. Though my progress was a little slower due to it being nonfiction, I enjoyed this book quite a lot, and it got me thinking about how so little seems to actually change over time. Even hundreds of years ago, skeptics were publishing very similar arguments against ghosts as skeptics make now. It’s also really amusing to learn that phantasmagoria, which involved lighting effects creating ghostly effects on a stage, came first; the effect wasn’t created because that’s how people reported seeing ghosts, people started reporting seeing ghosts as floating, glowing apparitions after those shows became popular.
Reading Next
I’m still not entirely sure what I’m going to start reading next, but what I do know is that it’s going to be fiction. I don’t have anything against nonfiction, but there’s been a little too much of that going around for my liking. I need more narrative in my life now.
Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.
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