Take a moment to admire the tidy dovetailing of this week’s WWW Wednesdays post with the actual correct day of the week.
What are you currently reading? The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. If having read the first sentence of something can be said to be “currently” reading it, this is my current read.
What did you recently finish reading? The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. After a laborious month of reading this classic, during which I took a double-mystery hiatus to read Elizabeth Speller’s excellent novels, I have finally concluded my reading of The Odyssey. My prior reading of it in college, I now realize, must have been an abridged or abbreviated version, as I read many parts and tales this time that I had never known before. Is it my favorite book? Well, no, not at all; but I am glad to have read it.
What do you will think you’ll read next? One of the many library books I have checked out, including but not limited to The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear, or The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan (featuring selkies).
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