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WWW Wednesday – January 14, 2026

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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

I’m currently in the middle of reading One-Punch Man Vol. 5 by ONE and Yusuke Murata. I’ve been on something of a reading break this past week or so, as I often do at the start of the year, though strictly from novels and the like, just to give myself a bit of a refresh. Comics, especially a parody action series like this, make for lighter, fun reading, so I don’t feel like I’m cheating myself out of my break. I’ve watched the first two seasons of the anime before, so this is really just a refresher on a story I already know. The third season recently released and is apparently rather subpar, so I decided I’m not waiting on that anymore and will just borrow the manga from the library.

Recently Finished

Like I said, I’ve been reading One-Punch Man, so I have four other volumes under my belt. Other than that, I started the year reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. Despite my desire for a break, my reservation for this book at the library came in and I didn’t want to keep a high-demand book away from the other people waiting for it, so I made sure to quickly read through it. This was an excellent nonfiction book that is wonderfully accessible to outsiders to the topic while also being very informative. As the title suggests, the book is about humanity’s history with tuberculosis, the impact it has had on society, and our ever-changing cultural attitudes toward it. Intertwined with this history is the story of Henry, a young man Green met in Sierra Leone, whose story helped influence the writing of this book. I highly recommend reading it.

Reading Next

What I decide to read next may change on a whim, but right now I’m inclined to start Ice by Anna Kavan once I’m finished with my break, a novel about a man pursuing a mysterious white-haired girl across a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape.

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

WWW Wednesday – December 31, 2025

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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! I’ve finished the last of the books I wanted to get through this year.

Recently Finished

Yesterday I finished reading The Spirit by Thomas Page, a 1977 horror novel recently republished by Valancourt Books. I ended up liking this book a lot more than I was expecting to, especially considering its fairly straightforward premise of hunting a Bigfoot that has a penchant for decapitation. It’s not that that didn’t sound like a good time, I just didn’t expect a lot of depth from it. Though the Bigfoot hunt is very real, it’s much more of a stark depiction of obsession and determination, the creature becoming something of a white whale for one of the characters, offering an altogether more spiritual story than you’d expect from a pulpy-looking horror novel, ruminating on self-discovery and finding purpose in life. I’m really happy that my reading endeavours for the year had such a pleasantly surprising and satisfying conclusion.

Reading Next

I’m a little at odds with circumstances at the moment because I’ve been itching for a bit of a break from reading prose in particular. I do intend to start reading One-Punch Man in the new year, which is manga and thus wouldn’t interfere with this break, but before I do I will be reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green, a nonfiction book about the history of tuberculosis infection and treatment and its ongoing impact on humanity. I got this from my library a couple of weeks ago because my reservation happened to become available, but I wasn’t quite ready to read it yet. So, I’m going to try to read it quickly at the start of next month before I take my short break from prose, just so I’m not withholding the book from the next person waiting for it.

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

Happy New Year!