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 chipping away at Watership Down by Richard Adams; I’ve made some progress in the last couple of weeks, but not nearly enough. I actually determined that I allowed a full two weeks to pass without reading a single page of it. I guess I’ve just been a little thrown for a loop lately, which is a shame, because I had some decent reading momentum going before this. At any rate, I’m still enjoying the book fine. I’m particularly interested in the ideas posed by the text about humanity as compared to animals, with the rabbits marking themselves and animals as distinct from the nature of humans, but it is notable that they actually act a lot more like people than this rhetoric suggests, especially in darker ways. A lot of what’s going on feels analogous to human societies, but I wonder how much this is incidental or intentional commentary on the part of Adams.

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Recently Finished

Over the weekend I read through Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Ghosts, a graphic novel anthology by various artists telling ghost stories. I’ve taken to peaking at the graphic novels at the library and just grabbing something and this one caught my eye. It’s funny, I’d never even heard of the show The Storyteller before (starring John Hurt), but the combination of ghost stories and Jim Henson was enough to grab my attention anyway. It turns out there’s quite a few of these volumes now too, with the titular character and his talking dog just playing host to tales collected under a theme. It’s wonderfully accessible, and this was a really solid collection that went to some surprisingly dark places for something with Henson’s name on it. I don’t know if I’ll hunt down any more to read, but this was a nice brisk reading experience.

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Reading Next

Though I still need to keep my attention focused on Watership Down, I decided to take out another book from the library that I will hopefully start chipping away at in the same way that I did with Video Game of the Year; I picked up What If? 2 by Randall Munroe. I really enjoyed reading the first one, which I read an ebook copy of, and instead of fussing over what format I’d want to pick this next one up in, I’m just borrowing it instead. The idea, if you’re not aware, is the author gives serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, which makes for great bite-sized reading, if you’re in the mood for that. I’ll likely start it soon, so long as it doesn’t distract too much from what I need to finish already.

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