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

Last week I started reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. So far, I’ve only read the introduction, the notes on the text, and then the first 30 pages or so. Considering it’s a book over 1,000 pages long, I’ve barely scratched the surface. Still, I have come away with a few things. For starters, it’s interesting to learn that some consider this to be a children’s book due to the nature of its plot and how it is told, no matter how long it is. Having read some of it I can kind of see where they’re coming from, however, as it is very digestible so far. Whereas I often found myself struggling with the language of Moby-Dick, I have not run into the same problems here. I’m pretty happy about this, because maybe that means I’ll finish it faster than I think I will. Also, this is apparently a rather new translation that I’ve gotten a hold of, with most English versions actually dating back to the 19th century, or so this tells me. Learning that those older English versions compromised some of the original text for the sake of prudishness, I’m happy I managed by happenstance to pick up something less concerned with such things.

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Recently Finished

Last week I finally finished reading Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. I feel that this novel took me entirely too long to finish, but I’m glad I did it. It doesn’t rate among my favourite Star Wars novels—not even close, to be honest—but it was not without its charm. It felt a little hamstrung by the fact that The Rise of Skywalker hadn’t come out yet, so there was only so much they could do with the characters I really cared about from this era, but it did give a surprising and modestly distinct texture to this time in the franchise’s history, which was a bit too blurred at times in the films, and the returning characters from other expanded media was a nice touch. Despite this being the sort of book I would normally skip as of late, I actually feel motivated to write a review for this, which I’ve already started. I’m hoping I can get myself into posting reviews again more often, but time will tell.

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Reading Next

I’ve got a bunch of Absolute Universe DC comics from the library as well as incoming One-Punch Man volumes to read, so I will no doubt be finishing those here and there as I pluck away at Monte Cristo.

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