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 this week; I’m between books again, which is good, though I feel bad that I missed the last couple of weekly posts. Two weeks ago I just felt like I didn’t have enough to say, and last week I just ended up being way too busy to make any time. I’m happy to be reporting back in.

Recently Finished

On Monday I finished reading Hellboy: The Dragon Pool by Christopher Golden, and goodness I’m really not sure how to feel about this one. In many ways, the writing is perfectly competent; I can’t think of anything particularly bad or awkward-sounding, and the regulars we know and love are characterized properly without any real issues. I just couldn’t escape the feeling that the entire story was a waste of time. An ancient dragon king is unearthed, wreaks some havoc, and then they defeat him. Hellboy’s relationship with Anastasia is touched upon, but they stay separated and it doesn’t amount to more than tension between the two. There’s tension with the Chinese government a little, because it takes place in Tibet, but that doesn’t come to a meaningful head either. It just goes through the motions, written well enough, reaching a predictable conclusion and overall being rather boring. I feel it deserves a little lower than a 3 out of 5, even, but I’m having trouble actually settling on that. I don’t know if I’ll ending up writing a full review on this one or not.

Reading Next

I’ve done a rather poor job of reading comics, as I continually complain about, and I’m really thinking I need to more thoughtfully go through my digital backlog and make a more concrete list of things I want to read this year. It was so much easier when I had series I wanted to catch up on/finish, but with luck I can get myself treating such a list in the same way.  Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman should still be first on the chopping block, as it were, I just need to figure out what else I want to push myself to read finally. So many of them have languished there for so long, it’s about bloody time.

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