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

Though I’m not nearly as far along as I feel I should be, I’ve gotten a little over a quarter of the way into Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. I could have talked about this book a little last week, but I didn’t feel that I’d gotten far enough into it to give many impressions. So far, I’m enjoying it pretty well; it’s making for easier reading compared to my last book, which is weird considering this is a Russian science fiction book and not an English children’s book, and it also has a different feel in terms of style that I attribute to it being a translated text. In contrast to a lot of other science fiction, I like how much this one feels like humanity is groping blindly at trying to understand advanced alien artifacts; even the institute that the protagonist works at is largely at a loss. Typically, the trope is that uncovering alien tech jumps us forward, so it’s refreshing to see humanity more humbled by it.

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Recently Finished

Since my last post I read Woven by Joshua Barkman, his latest self-published book collecting the comics he released online every day in November of 2023. I actually read this one before the 15th, but I was a little busy and decided to put off talking about it until I could write a more substantial post. Technically, this is my second time reading this story, but it was nice to go through it in one sitting collected together like this. Though these books have consistently told stories about wildlife in a fairly realistic art style, I really appreciate how Barkman has adopted different visual styles with each project; the muted blue and the red contrast really well with each other. It’s also a nice little story about creativity and struggling with discouragement and embracing your passion.

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Reading Next

I’m not really sure what I’m going to start next, even as far as comics go, though I’m always giving myself grief about that. I did, however, finally finish my review of Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh, which I finished reading all the way back in March. I don’t know what’s wrong with me that it took me so long, but I’m glad it’s finally done. Other than that, I just want to focus on what I’m reading right now so that I don’t end up taking too long again.

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