It’s Monday, what are you reading?—a weekly blog meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
It’s going to be a crazy week, people! I just enjoyed one of my last peaceful weekends for a while, now that the semester/concert season is in full swing. On Saturday I finished reading The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Robert Kirkman (and saw Buddy Guy perform!). Review coming up soon, hopefully tomorrow!
I always have the worst trouble starting a new book. I just agonize over it, for some reason! I stand in front of my bookcase staring for several minutes. Then I open up my iPad and stare at my ebooks I’ve downloaded. Then I go back to the bookcase. Repeat repeat repeat. Yesterday I finally settled on Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink, though, partly because I had just read a couple books by male authors (I’m more aware of this now since I started keeping a spreadsheet for my reading this year… self-overanalyzing is happening, people) and Five Days is another from that 2013 book-buying binge that I’m finally starting to try to whittle down. It’s a little dry but less textbook-y than I was expecting, which is good. I’m hoping I can finish it this week but it’s a bit of a chunkster—almost 500 pages! We’ll see.
What are you reading this week?
Self-aware zing is definitely here. I posted Saturday on stats relating to what formats I’m reading now versus five years ago. Metadata is sometimes a curse.
Thus week I’m back in WWI with A Farewell to Arms and Sleepwalkers. Also reading Least Heat Moon’s PrairyErth.
Oh my stupid smartphone keyboard! That is NOT what I meant to type. This is closer to what I meant:
Self-analyzing is definitely here. I posted Saturday some stats relating to what formats (audiobooks, ebooks, print editions) I’m reading now versus five years ago. Metadata is a curse sometimes.
This week I’m back in the Great War with A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway and Sleepwalkers. I’m also reading Least Heat Moon’s PrairyErth.
Hope you’re enjoying your Great War books! I would love to delve in to some, but I really want to get through my already-bought books (and I’m going to miss the discussion for The Guns of August anyway, boo).
I am enjoying them. I’m skittish about A Farewell to Arms because I believe it’s a tragedy (I’ve never read it before or any other Hemingway). Sleepwalkers is making me a sleepwalker. I hope it improves soon.
I too should limit myself to already-bought-books. Sadly, I seem to lack willpower. Ooo … shiny. 🙂
I do the same back and forth between the shelf and kindle and word press reader until I pick one. Crazy!
I know! I just want the next book I read to be UH-MAZ-ING, always. I’m a “mood” reader too, and go on genre or subject binges. But joining annual challenges gives me lists of books I “should” read, which complicates matters!
I have Five Days at Memorial on my TBR thanks to Literary Disco, I really should hurry up and read it. Sounds like an awesome book, enjoy your reading week
Oooh, I hope you’ll like it! Right now we’re just a week off the ninth anniversary of the storm, too.
The first half of Five Days at Memorial is really interesting but the second half gets really dry and a little boring. Overall though it is a fascinating account.
I’m afraid it’ll probably take me a long time to get through—super busy this week!