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

Making good on my word last Wednesday, I started reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville on Thursday. Progress was a little slow at first, as this book is hard to get into, but I’m now sitting at page 132, so I’d say I’m getting through it at a decent pace. Goodness, is this book ever challenging, though. Part of me wants to blame its age, but it’s actually a younger novel than Frankenstein, which has a far more accessible writing style, so I’m going to chalk it up to the dialect it was written in. Still, I’ve been able to get into it fairly well, when Ishmael is focused more on what is happening around him and sermons aren’t going on for pages and pages. The Pequod has left Nantucket and it seems we’re finally about to meet Ahab. I found it surprisingly raw that Ishmael’s reason for working at sea is that this is essentially his self-treatment for depression.

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Recently Finished

Nothing yet, as I’ve still got much of this daunting novel to read.

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Reading Next

I haven’t settled upon the next novel I want to read to keep my focus on Melville, but I am certainly thinking longingly about some novels I would rather be reading. I’ll be moving on soon, if I can stay disciplined. Meanwhile, I have picked up my first library book for the year, as a book of poetry caught my eye at the bookstore, and as luck would have it the book was available at the library too. This book is Teeth by Dallas Hunt. It looks like it is more free verse poetry, which works for me, as I find this style to be the most accessible; it may not be the most elaborate structurally, but it helps me to read poetry when I otherwise wouldn’t, so I consider that a net positive. I’m sure I just need to set aside some time on a single day here or there to get through it.

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