WWW Wednesday – July 30, 2025

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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 Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson, though I took a break from it last week, which I’ll get into. I’m just about 100 pages shy of finishing it, though, so with luck I’ll have it done very soon. I’m still enjoying this final book quite a bit, though it feels at a point of suspense at the moment. While there is a general unrest in Jared’s life due to recent events, it doesn’t feel as if anything is urgently a threat at the moment, yet I can’t help feeling like there’s going to be yet another explosive incident. I wish the stakes were a little more apparent than just waiting for the implication of a threat to become more obvious. Still, it’s an enjoyable period of relative quiet for the character while he tries to get a handle on things. I think I’m rather going to miss reading this trilogy once I’m done with it.


Recently Finished

Last week I decided to hell with my apprehension and started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in preparation for a monthly book mixer that occurred on Saturday. The theme this month was pirate books, so this was the perfect opportunity to read the pirate book. I almost didn’t make it, but I finished the book in six days, which I’m quite satisfied with. The language was a little antiquated, as expected, which made it a little more challenging, but it was ultimately a rather breezy read. I was surprised by how violent the book ended up being, as I’ve always heard it’s considered children’s literature, with even our child protagonist himself needing to shoot a man in the face in self-defense. The book includes the exact words “I’ll blow your brains out” too, and with how popular and influential it is, I’ve been wondering ever since if that’s the first time that phrase was ever written down.


Reading Next

I’ve got a good handful of library reads lined up, but I haven’t settled on one to start just yet. You’ll have to wait until next week, when I expect I’ll have finished at least one of them.

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

WWW Wednesday – July 16, 2025

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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

Yikes, I’m only just realizing how I missed two whole weeks of these. Two weeks ago I just hadn’t felt I had enough to write about, and last week I was vacationing at a cottage. At any rate, there have been a lot of changes in that time. First and foremost, I’ve been reading Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson, the third novel in the Trickster trilogy. Though I liked the previous book well, I am especially enjoying this one. Trickster Drift slowed things down a bit as Jared struggled with settling into a new place with unfamiliar family and his commitment to sobriety, so there was a subtle atmosphere of suspense, which erupted at the conclusion of that book. This book has continued the trajectory, and I’m really enjoying the domino effect as the fallout continues. I’m only about 120 pages in, which isn’t nothing, but I should be further along since it’s been a couple weeks, I’m just not very good at reading on vacation.


Recently Finished

Likely about three weeks ago now, I finished reading Curses by George Wylesol, a book collecting various surreal comic book works by the author from over the years. Many of them didn’t have much of a narrative to speak of and were very abstract, so my mileage varied a little. The final story involving ghostly possession, prophecy, and the end of the world in a deeply strange town was a lot of fun, though, and I really appreciate this author’s unique visual style that is really unlike anything else I see in comics right now, so I can’t help but be fond of this. I do want to track down another of his books that seems more singularly focused though, as I think I’ll like that more.

This week I read through Ew, It’s Beautiful, the new False Knees comic collection by Joshua Barkman. It’s not really a narrative thing, so I don’t have much to say except I was delighted as usual by the strips, both old and new, and continue to love the art, which is beautifully realistic but somehow just as evocative as a cartoon.


Reading Next

I haven’t quite decided what I’m going to read next. This month’s theme at a monthly book mixer I go to is pirates, so I was thinking of reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, but with the pace I’ve been going at this week I’m not sure I can actually get to it in time, as I don’t want to shelve Return of the Trickster to do it. We’ll see where things take me.

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

New Books & Novel Discoveries (June 2025)

Goodness me, I’ve let it happen again: I’ve waited far too long into the next month to post one of these, but I feel like I’ve got a decent excuse this time. You see, the first week of July I was fairly busy with work, and then all of last week I was on vacation. So, this was left to languish, but I was at a cottage! Surely you can understand. I’ve had some last minute remembrances of what I bought, so it’s one of those months, but I believe I’ve got them all remembered properly now.

Let’s see what I picked up.

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Book Review – Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel

Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel is the third and final novel of The Themis Files. For the past ten years, Rose, Vincent, and his daughter Eva have been stuck on an alien planet. Through Rose’s ingenuity, the alien invaders who made Themis and massacred 100 million people were persuaded to leave Earth, taking their creation with them. Unbeknownst to them, however, Rose and company were celebrating inside Themis when she was beamed away. Though initially prevented from leaving, Rose, Vincent, and Eva have managed to make their way back to Earth using Themis, where they hope they can finally return to living a normal life. Things are never quite that simple, however, and 10 years is a long time following so much destruction and so many lives lost. Humanity and their understanding of who they are in the universe has forever changed and must be reckoned with before peace can ever be attained again.

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Books on My Summer 2025 To-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme run by That Artsy Reader Girl. This topic is actually from a couple weeks ago. I meant to post about it then, but work has been a little busier lately and I believe that kept me from remembering to do it. At any rate, this week’s topic is a freebie for any previous topic, so I’m taking advantage of that now. I actually finished 7/10 books from my Spring TBR list this year, so I’m hoping this will be a good way to help cement what I want to be reading this season too.Read More »