WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World Of Words.
Each week we answer the following three questions:
-What have you recently finished reading?
-What are you currently reading?
-What are you reading next?
Despite the number of books that I finished in the past week, I was disappointed with half of them so it wasn’t as great of a week as it may look. November 9 by Colleen Hoover was AMAZING! It literally blew my mind and I can’t wait to do the Maybe Someday readalong with the Bibliophile Gathering Goodreads group next month! My audiobook reads were also great. The Fellowship of the Ring was a reread for me and the only part I didn’t like about the narration was the narrator’s singing voice haha. The Return of the Native I have never read before but I started it the day that Alan Rickman passed away because he narrated it and I needed to hear his voice.
Onto the disappointments… Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics was a book that I had been looking forward to reading since October. I won it in a giveaway, which is good because I ended up not liking it at all. Even though it is a really short book, it was torture trying to get through it. Same thing with Nirvana. It was just a weird, confusing book. I didn’t like it. And Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict… not so good.
Currently I have some great reads going on! I just started the audio reread of The Two Towers (which is my personal favorite of the trilogy). I also started The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. It is my second book written by Ness. So far I’m a little confused by the setting but I’m barely into the book yet. The Passenger by Lisa Lutz is my current eARC read via NetGalley. So far it’s promising. *Last week I said I was going to start Betrayed by Lynn Carthage as my eARC but for whatever reason it doesn’t display every other page on my Kindle Fire so I started The Passenger. It does display properly on my phone app so I will still be able to read it.* And I have made a little progress on Under The Dome by Stephen King. Erica and I aren’t making this book a priority since it is so big. Taking it slow and steady.
And up next I have a few review copies to catch up on since I will have completed my January TBR with The Knife of Never Letting Go. I won Never Tear Us Apart and The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander through LibraryThing for review. And I won Perfect Days through Shelf Awareness for review. I’m excited to read all of these.
What have you been reading lately?
Chaos Walking is all excellent. The Knife of Never Letting Go is very good, if a little repetitive. The animals, in particular, are a joy.
I have November 9 on my TBR as my CoHo “second chance” novel after I didn’t like the characters in Confess 🙂
Here’s my WW: https://clairehuston.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/www-wednesday-20th-january-2016/
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I hope November 9 gives you a better opinion of CoHo. I really loved that book.
So far I am loving Manchee in The Knife of Never Letting Go! He reminds me of Dug from Up.
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I’m sorry Daughters Unto Devils didn’t work for you! That’s a bummer. But I’m so glad you liked November 9 and are going to read Maybe Someday!! Can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
I look forward to hearing what you think of The Passenger. I had considered it, but wasn’t sure I’d like it.
Happy reading!!
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Yeah, I was pretty bummed about Daughters Unto Devils. Might have been because I had a mega book hangover from November 9. I can’t wait to get to my next CoHo read.
I’m not very far in The Passenger but so far it is intriguing.
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I recently finished reading and reviewed Shadow of Night the second book in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy and I’ve started reading Named of the Dragon by, one of my favourite comfort writers, Susanna Kearsley 🙂
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I need to get to Shadow of Night! I loved the first book. And the first Susanna Kearsley book I ever read was A Desperate Fortune as an ARC and I loved it. I have a couple of her others but haven’t read them yet.
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I haven’t read A Desperate Fortune. I have read The Rose Garden, The Splendour Falls, Marianna and most recently The Shadowy Horses; and I enjoyed them all!
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Glad to hear you enjoyed them all! I have Mariana and The Rose Garden on my Kindle to read as well as my paperback of The Winter Sea.
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I hope you enjoy 🙂
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I loved November 9! It was a great emotional roller coaster. I look forward to see what you think of Under the Dome. I’m not a fan of King, but the plot is fascinating.
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Such an emotional roller coaster! I loved that book and can’t wait to read more from Colleen Hoover.
So far Under the Dome is an interesting read but I haven’t gotten very far in it yet. I’ve only read one other King book (‘Salem’s Lot) and I did not like it at all.
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Is it your first from her too? I’m not even sure where to start next lol.
Good to know about Under the Dome 🙂
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I had read Finding Cinderella of hers a couple of years ago but that was a novella. I’ll be reading Maybe Someday next month with a group in Goodreads
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Nice! Was Finding Cinderella as good as Nov 9?
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No, I think it will be hard to top November 9!
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That’s the truth!
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November 9 has to be one of my favorite books! It was so good! I need to read Passenger by Lutz soon! Hopefully you continue to like it! Here’s my WWW for the week. Happy reading!
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I loved November 9 as well! And a shame you didn’t like Daughers Unto Devils; I was really looking forward to it as well. Chaos Walking is one of those series I HAVE to finish this year; I loved the first book despite the painful cliffhanger ending. And I have been doubting whether to pick up Under The Dome myself, but I think I’m going to tackle some other big reads first. (Outlander, A Dance Of Dragons)
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Yes to Outlander! That is a definite must before Under the Dome.
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I really need to read Outlander ASAP! I tried last year but I was in a readingslump at the time and I couldn’t find enough time to read… But I’m definitely going to try again next month!
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I want to listen to the LOTR audiobooks. I think I am going to do that at some point this year. 🙂
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