WWW Wednesday 7-2-2014

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

• What are you currently reading?

Note: This is the cover of the UK edition.

I am finally reading the new Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling novel, The Silkworm.  Maybe you’re one of those people who never read the Harry Potter books, because, you know, kid stuff. I suggest you dip your toes into this mystery series set in London, and see what all the hooplah is about.

Jo Rowling writes fabulous characters, descriptions, and has been known to throw some awesome plot twists in the reader’s path. There’s a reason she’s so successful, and I have yet to read a book she wrote that I didn’t love.

Okay, correction. Sort of. I couldn’t bear to read that stupid Tales of Beedle the Bard so didn’t. So I guess it still stands true that I haven’t read a book she wrote I didn’t love, because I didn’t read that one. Or, for that matter, the Hogwarts textbooks. So let me correct my statement: I have yet to read a novel she wrote that I didn’t love.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Since this book was written in 1928, it has had a gazillion covers. This one is simply the most recent, and specifically for the audiobook.

I just finished listening to The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer. Delightful tale of cross-dressing Jacobites and in pure Heyer fashion, the ‘gentleman’ always know all, see through all pretenses, and appreciate the heroine for everything that sets her apart from the crowd, good and bad. I’ll admit, that one aspect of Heyer does get on my nerves from time to time, the omnipotence of the heroes in her books, but it’s minor in the general scheme of things, and I presume she was writing the kind of hero she likes, since she was so consistent.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

Note: After the first book, the publishers are now using the same covers on US and UK editions. Good for them!

I just pre-ordered the new Ben Aaronovitch/Peter Grant mystery from the UK, which I am sincerely hoping drops prices between now and September, because the exchange rate is going to kill me. It’s expensive being a purist on such things. But I am. If they would release it in the US at the same time I’d simply download the audiobook and wait for a sale to purchase the hardcover, but the only way I can read the book in September is pre-order, so I have.

And of course, I’m doing constant re-read of This Crumbling Pageant, since I can’t write the sequel without dipping backward to check details!

 

What about you? What have you been reading lately? Put the link to your WWW Wednesday entry in comments, or just tell us!