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
At the moment, I’m reading Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse, a novel set between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. At one point I actually intended to read this book before the latter film, but I didn’t want to buy the hardcover, so I picked up the TPB that came out later and it has languished on my shelf ever since. Admittedly, I’m not especially enthusiastic about this book. In part this is because I’m not especially enthusiastic about reading any prose right now, regrettably, but also because I’m afraid I’ve come to this book a little too late. Apparently, this was meant to be a culmination of a lot of what they had going on in the new canon novels set after Return of the Jedi, with many characters from books such as the Aftermath trilogy making appearances, but it has been so long since I read those books that I’m afraid I won’t be able to recall very many of them, though so far I’m not completely lost. I think some characters were in the Poe Dameron comics, though, which I haven’t read, so that’s a shame. I’m only about 80 pages in right now. I certainly don’t hate it, but I’m not hooked yet either. It’s mostly just dealt with the aftermath of TLJ.
Recently Finished
I’ve read a number of graphic novels in the last two weeks. First was Let Me In Your Window by Adam Ellis, a collection of short horror stories. Overall, it was a fun collection with some rather good creepy stories within, though some were rather weaker than others. It reminded me of things like Tales from the Cryptkeeper, so I’m happy it exists, even if some of them stretched credulity a little too much, and some of them were legitimately quite good. I’d like to read the first collection now. I also read The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg, which is an imagined, mythologized history of people who lived on Earth before our own history began. I enjoyed its folkloric approach to weaving its web of connected tales and the theology it crafted for its world while having elements that resemble stories familiar to us. Lastly, I read Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. Though I find the origin-story approach of jumping back and forth between past an present a little tiresome, I really loved this book and the way it introduced this version of Diana Prince. It’s a more hardcore interpretation of the character, having her raised by the witch Circe in the underworld, but she’s full of such heart and innate goodness that it was balanced out really nicely.
Reading Next
First and foremost, I’m going to read Absolute Wonder Woman: As My Mothers Made Me by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman next. I was fortunate enough to be able to borrow the second volume so soon after reading the first, so I’m going to make sure I get through it. After that, I have two more volumes of One-Punch Man on loan that I need to get through. Then, I will be embarking upon a more substantial undertaking: I’m going to start reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Maybe this isn’t the best of ideas as I’m in a bit of a reading slump at the moment, but I’m actually hoping that something a little more challenging will engage me better and help me get out of it. Time will tell, I just need to finish up these graphic novels first so I don’t let them run overdue.
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