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
Nothing at the moment, I’m between books.
Recently Finished
Last week, I read through An Illustrated History of Urban Legends by Adam Allsuch Boardman, which details well-known and perhaps less-well-known urban legends from around the world, covering broader subjects like cryptozoology and UFOs and specific phenomena like Sasquatch sightings and various hauntings. On the one hand, I enjoyed the colourful simplicity of the art; it was pleasing to look at and made it easy to digest in a single reading session. I do wish it had indulged in being a little more creepy, however, befitting the subject matter. I read this book because I liked books like this as a kid, but this one was a little too sanitized. It would’ve been hard to get a spooky thrill out of this book. There were also an unusual number of glaring mistakes, such that I had to question who proofed this book. Still, I enjoyed this enough that I’d like to read more of the author’s work.
Yesterday, I finished reading Begotten: A Gothic Novel by Kate Cherrell. It feels like I was reading it a lot longer than I actually was, and I’m honestly having a hard time pinning down my feelings on this book. It’s atmosphere was immaculate, and while the characters felt fairly archetypal, they were also well fleshed out. However, I struggled with the pacing, which was slow and ponderous. In some respects this added to the atmosphere well, but I felt like I was waiting far too long for something to happen. The story was also too obscure for its own good. I do find myself tantalized by the mystery of what was really going on and why, but so much is obfuscated from the reader that it’s difficult to form any concrete interpretations. Though I have others queued up that need writing, I’d particularly like to review this book to get deeper into my thoughts on it.
Reading Next
The next novel I plan to read is Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson, the third and final novel in her Trickster trilogy. Until then, however, I plan on reading The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, a graphic novel I feel remiss in not having read despite being a life-long fan of the medium. I’ve borrowed it from the library, so I’m going to more singularly focus on this comic before starting another novel. Comics tend to be much faster reads, but this one is a lot longer than the average volume, and I have a feeling it is also a lot longer content-wise.
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