WWW Wednesday – June 24, 2020

In an attempt to try and be more consistent with my blogging, I thought I’d try doing the WWW Wednesday tag hosted by Taking on a World of Words. Since I don’t have any semblance of a posting schedule and don’t review every book I read, I figured this might be a way for me to give some quick thoughts about what I’m reading. 

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

I am currently reading both The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien. 

I put The Hate U Give on hold through Libby back in April and June came along and I still had over a six-month wait. I’ve been trying to buy fewer physical books but when the #BlackPublishingPower challenge was happening, I thought it would be a good time to buy this book. (I also bought Black Enough which is an anthology put together by Ibi Zoboi). I am only about 140 pages in but already it is very impactful especially considering the target audience is YA. Getting these messages to people when they are younger is vital to change in future generations.

I am also reading The Fellowship of the Ring right now. This is for the #MakeYourMythTaker readathon prompt to read a book featuring a magical battle. This is a reread for me; I haven’t read this since high school. Since I don’t typically read fantasy, it is a bit dense but I’m listening to the audiobook while I read along and it’s been a good time. I’m a little over halfway through (just past the council of Elrond). I still have one book after this for the readathon but I’m not sure I’m going to finish on time. Oh well.

I recently finished reading Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Libby said I had another three weeks to wait on this book but just as I was about to go to bed, I got an email saying it was ready. Needless to say, I stayed up quite a while reading. I will talk about this more in my monthly wrap-up but I loved the experience of reading this book and devoured it in less than two days. Amazing.

Next up for me is These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling. This will fulfill the last prompt for the readathon I’m participating in this month – read a book with occult themes. I am excited to read this book though I know there are some mixed reviews floating around. I might not finish it in June but I will still carry it into July because I’d really like to get to it soon. After that, I am going to try to read Black Enough and Home Before Dark by Riley Sager since I got both of them this month. We shall see!

Have you read any of these books? What are you reading? If you participate in WWW Wednesday, link me your posts!