Vermis III – Muse with Me

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 still plucking away at the Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein. I don’t have much more to say on it, as it doesn’t exactly change as you get through it. I’m simply continuing to have dorky fun learning the distinctions between similar things and ideas.

Recently Finished

Late last week I finished reading The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Shin’Ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta. Really I had already finished the story, as it was only about 45 pages long, but the remainder was a lengthy essay about the background of the story and cultural/literary inspirations for it, which helped to put it into a lot better context for me, especially in how it describes the sociopolitical climate in Japan at the time and how that worked its way into the story. It also goes into depth about how, of all things, the original Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting had a huge influence on the story and Mothra in particular. One of Lofting’s stories features a gargantuan moth that flies Dr. Dolittle to the Moon to treat the animals that live there, and translations of his books had made their way to Japan some decades prior, to great success. Angles (the translator of this book) drew such clear connections that the influence is undeniable. It’s always fun to see how ideas are birthed from each other.

I also finished a couple volumes of One-Punch Man, but I haven’t got much to say on them. It’s a fun series, but each volume flows into the next in such a way that I don’t really have much of note to say about them.

Reading Next

I’m likely going to read Vermis III: Old Curses & Buried Horrors by Plastiboo soon, and I’ve also got a few more graphic novels from the library that I want to get through so I don’t hang on to them too long. Besides those, I’m not sure what novel I might start next.

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

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 still reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, the 29th Discworld novel and the 6th about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. I didn’t update last week because I wanted to get a little further along into reading this, especially as I haven’t been reading much of anything else. As expected, I’m really enjoying this novel, perhaps even a little more than the last couple of City Watch books. Taking Vimes and thrusting him 3o years into his own past and forcing him take up the mantle of another man while mentoring himself as a young man was an inspired choice that I’m really enjoying. It’s nice to get the focus almost solely on Vimes too. Though he’s typically a main character, there are usually more POVs he has to share the novel with. I’m also really enjoying the stark contrast between what the Watch was 30 years prior and what it has become over the course of the entire series. It does a good job of making fun of and highlighting the flaws in policing while also upholding a higher standard that can and should always be aspired to.

Recently Finished

Nothing for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been more singularly focused and have taken a bit of a break from the shorter books.

Reading Next

I’m not entirely sure what I want to pick up next in terms of longer reading, though I am finding myself still drawn toward finishing series that I’ve let languish for a long time. There’s the rest of my life for new books, but I shouldn’t let the series I’ve already started and bought the books for just sit there for ages. In the meantime, I do intend to read Vermis III: Old Curses & Buried Horrors by Plastiboo because I simply love these art books, and I’ve also picked up a couple more volumes of One-Punch Man from the library to keep my progress on that series steadily moving forward. Thinking about the Spring to-read list I just put out as well, there’s a really good chance my next read will be The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Shin’Ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta. Time will tell.