WWW Wednesday – April 3, 2024

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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

Watership DownThough by this time last week I had actually read up to page 203, I haven’t touched Watership Down by Richard Adams at all over the past week; things have been a little stressful with car troubles and whatnot, and for some reason that has made reading this book suffer. Still, I’m continuing to enjoy it, and I was surprised by the development that they’ve already reached the titular Watership Down. Where I’m at, their concern is finding female rabbits to attract to their new home so the warren doesn’t die out, as for some reason all of the rabbits that left the warren at the beginning with Hazel and Fiver were male. I can see how this will likely introduce conflict in the narrative’s future, so I really ought to pick this back up to see where things go.


Recently Finished

Vermis IOver the weekend, I did manage to push myself to read through Vermis I: Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods by Plastiboo, an art book that is constructed as a guide for a dungeon-crawler game that never existed. As I knew when I picked it up, I absolutely loved the illustrations and designs in this books, and it actually ended up being a rather creative way to tell the story of a strange little journey in a strange land, as it outlines a game’s quest and thus has you progressing from point to point, encounter to encounter, outlining objects that can be found and choices that can be made along the way. The only thing I chaffed against is that this book really needed a better proofreader; for the most part it’s still enjoyable and very readable, but a lot of independent clauses are joined by commas alone instead of being separated, which reads awkwardly, and there are a lot of cases of missing articles and subject/verb disagreement.


Reading Next

I haven’t made up my mind on what to read next, though naturally I have some ideas. It will likely be a graphic novel of some sort.

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

WWW Wednesday – March 20, 2024

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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

Watership DownI’m happy to report that I’ve made some fairly decent progress on Watership Down by Richard Adams since last week, considering that I haven’t had a huge reading window to sit down with it. I’ve finished Part One, which has me at nearly 120 pages in. Though I have no clue how things will develop going forward, I am excited by this story being an odyssey, though the promised land of the title that I presume they will be seeking hasn’t even been mentioned yet. Already they have faced many tribulations and encounters with other creatures and rabbits. I’m quite captivated by how many of the rabbits are characterized, with certain concepts being difficult for them to grasp; there’s an interesting balance between them thinking like people and thinking like the animals that they are.


Recently Finished

Nothing this week, as I have sadly continued to neglect comics and graphic novels.


Reading Next

Vermis IAs I laid out in the spring TBR I posted yesterday for Top Ten Tuesday, I want to make myself read more from my comic book backlog. Already I plan to be reading A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll soon, though this is hardly an old book that has been left waiting, but I also want to make myself read Vermis I by Plastiboo soon, a mystifying art book about a dungeon-crawler RPG that never existed. I hope I can make myself start or even finish these by next week, but we will see, as I’m not quite sure how my reading time will be divided up in that time.

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

WWW Wednesday – July 5, 2023

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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’m between books at the moment.


Recently Finished

Jurassic ParkMonday morning I managed to finish my reread of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton; I’m really happy I was able to follow through on my prediction that I’d be able to do so by this week’s post. It was an excellent book, and I have gained the greater appreciation for it that I was hoping I would compared to when I read it back in middle school or high school. Something glaring about what motivated me to read it though was the fact that I’d seen so much hyping it up as a scarier story than the film, but it really isn’t. It’s definitely darker and a little more violent, but it doesn’t really give a horror atmosphere. Maybe I’m just harder to scare, but it still felt pretty firmly science fiction to me. Still, I’m happy for the refresher, as I want to move on to The Lost World soon.


Reading Next

Vermis II can’t remember how certain I’ve been about what I’ll read next lately, but the other morning I apparently committed to starting Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, as I brought my copy with me in case I wanted to start it after finishing Jurassic Park. With my new-found reading time, I’m hoping I can finish this book within the month of July, but we’ll see. I’m also really considering reading through Vermis I by Plastiboo, which is a rather unique art book I recently purchased a copy of. It’s a guide book to a dungeon-crawling game that never existed, and it’s full of art that I simply adore. It probably won’t take much longer to read than a comic, and I’d really like to make myself read through it, as it’s something I could easily just let sit on a shelf like any other art book, but I really want to fully appreciate it.

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