WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesday is now hosted by Sam @Taking on the World of Words.

I haven't joined in this meme for a long time but (thanks to various changes in my family and work life) midweek has now evolved into a good time for me to reflect on my reading plans for the week.

The Three W's are: 

What are you currently reading? 

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

I'm half way through this tremendously good classic read for #Woolfalong.

Dubliners by James Joyce

I'm slowly working my way through these misery Irish short stories for my #ccspin read *sigh*

The After-Room by Maile Meloy

Only a few chapters left in this terrific page turner that I started during Dewey's 24hr Readathon.

What did you recently finish reading? 

River of Ink: Genesis by Helen Dennis

Another Night in Mullet Town by Steven Herrick

Australian Classics by Jane Gleeson-White

I finished these three books during the Readathon on the weekend.

Reviews to follow.

What do you think you’ll read next?

Next month brings us the Sydney Writers Festival.

So far I have booked myself into four events and hope to attend a few of the free ons as well.

One of the chats is with Gloria Steinem, therefore I hope to read her latest book before then!

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. 

She reveals the story of her own growth in tandem with the growth of an ongoing movement for equality. This is the story at the heart of My Life on the Road.

Although I'm not attending the opening night featuring special guest Kate Tempest, I am curious about her book, her style and her rap poetry. 

The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest

It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.  

Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of stolen money. Taking us back in time - and into the heart of London - The Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us intimate stories of hidden lives, and showing us that good intentions don't always lead to the right decisions.  

Leading us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people, their families and their communities, Kate Tempest exposes moments of beauty, disappointment, ambition and failure. 

Wise but never cynical, driven by empathy and ethics,The Bricks the Built the Houses questions how we live with and love one another.

I've been having a discussion on another blog about commenting and the best ways to be able to comment on all the blog types. In recent times, I've only come across one blog that I simply cannot leave a comment on no matter which account I use.

I have a google, wordpress and discus account so that I comment everywhere I go, but was wondering about OpenID? It looks like it's a way to combine all your account details so that you just use the one password etc. 

Does anyone use this? What do you think? 

WWW Wednesday

What are you currently reading?

Becoming George Sand by Rosaline Brackenbury. I love the look and feel of this book. Rough cut pages and an old fashioned style. But Maria (the modern day protagonist) and George Sand are driving me crazy with their selfishness and neediness.



What did you recently finish reading?

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.
Love, love, love.
Rave review pending - when I can think of something more profound to say than "love, love, love"!



What did you think you will read next?

Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier.
I've now had 3 positive recommendations for Juliet Marillier in the past 2 weeks. I cannot ignore such obvious signs any longer!


Hosted by MizB @ Should be Reading.

WWW Wednesday

MizB hosts WWW Wednesday on her blog 'Should Be Reading'.

The rules are simple:
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…


(1) What are you currently reading?

I'm currently about 6 chapters into an advance reading copy of Bitter Greens by Australian author Kate Forsyth.  

Juliet Marillier, author of Daughter of the Forest and Heart’s Blood declares "History and fairytale are richly entwined in this spellbinding fairytale. Unputdownable!"

I'm loving it so far and would certainly recommend it to lovers of French historical fiction, although it's too early yet to give you many details about it.

(2) What did you recently finish reading?


I've just finished reading the biography on Australian rock band Powderfinger. It has been a huge disappointment.

I've loved Powderfinger for nearly 2 decades so I knew their bio would not have any major scandals to reveal. They're just 5 nice guys doing something they love.

But the writing is appalling - it has been a chore to get through it.
The best bit was the photographs and memorabilia...and of course the CD that came with it.

(3) What do you think you’ll read next?

Next on my list is a teen book.

A "chilling, edge-of-your seat thriller" called 172 Hours on the Moon" from Norwegian author Johan Harstad.
"Three of them will go on the trip of a lifetime. Only one will come back."

172 Hours on the Moon has won the prestigious Brage prize for children's literature in Norway.
A huge global marketing campaign will coincide with the April release date. Judging by the number of blogs who have this title on their Waiting for Wednesday/In My Mailbox list suggests that they're doing a good job of getting the message out there so far...I just hope it lives up to the hype!