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

Freelance work has continued to be fairly busy, and while in many ways I’m very happy about that, it has hindered my ability to read as a result. My priorities have perhaps been a little scattered as well. So, in the intervening two weeks I have read more of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, but I’m only further by about 70 pages, putting my at just over 100 pages into the book. We’ve a long way to go. Over the course of these pages I have learned much of the depths of the dilemma Edmond finds himself in, as well as more about French history than I ever knew before, particularly the state of politics after Napoleon went into exile and just how the re-established kingship was utterly paranoid about him trying to make moves once again (a fear not unfounded, as it turns out, but still rather inconvenient for out poor Edmond).

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Recently Finished

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve read a number of graphic novels from the library; my sense of obligation to finish these more quickly has been to the detriment of Monte Cristo, so I expect I’m going to put more focus on these soon to get the rest done. The books I read were the first volumes of Absolute Flash, Absolute Green Lantern, and Absolute Superman. I enjoyed the first two about the same; I’ve never been a big reader of either character/title, but I knew enough to appreciate the twists on the idea. I liked Absolute Superman the best, especially the switch-up on his budding connection with Lois Lane and the parallels drawn between the systemic woes of Krypton and how that is reflected on Earth. His suit being somewhat technological with a degree of sentience is fun too. The only thing that has really held back every initial volume in the Absolute books for me is how tethered they are to being origin stories rather than just the beginning of the title. Once the second Batman volume escaped that I enjoyed it better, ditto Wonder Woman, and I expect the others may follow the same track.

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Reading Next

I’m going to try to pluck away at Monte Cristo more this week if I can, but I really want to read the next couple volumes of One-Punch Man by ONE and Yusuke Murata before I do. Hopefully, if I clear that all away I can better refocus my efforts.

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