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

At the moment, I’m about 40 pages into The Spirit by Thomas Page, a 1977 horror novel recently republished by Valancourt Books and featured in Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix. So far, it has an old-fashioned feel in how it throws us into the premise without much buildup. I don’t know how common this truly was, but for what it’s worth, this is what I was expecting. We’re given some background on the characters, but otherwise it dives right into our one protagonist, “The Indian”, beginning his vision quest and the other, a hunter named Raymond Jason, already in the wilderness with three other men, their encounter with Bigfoot imminent. I’m not very far in so I’m reserving my judgement, but I feel I could take it or leave it so far, as I don’t feel particularly hooked by any of the characters or their respective pursuits of the creature.

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Recently Finished

Last week I said I wanted to read another graphic novel but hadn’t settled on one. Since then, I came across Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown at the library, a biographical graphic novel about the professional wrestler Andre the Giant. Though I didn’t want to buy it, it had been passively on my radar for a while, so it was a little exciting to come across it at the library. At first, I found it a little unfortunate that it didn’t look to be going into that much depth, a limitation of the medium perhaps, but my attitude turned around by the end. While by no means as exhaustive as biographical prose, it did a great job of creating a narrative portrait of his entire life, highlighting where he came from, the highs and lows of his career, the almost mythical tales from his life and career on the road, and the daily struggles he endured due to his condition, despite how much it contributed to his fame.

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Reading Next

Nothing for the rest of the year! I’m planning for The Spirit to be my last read of 2025. I need a little break.