WWW Wednesday -- 20 October 2021

I've been hunting for new places to linkup to since my reading life has gone a bit haywire ... but in a good way. I've typically done Tuesdays and Fridays but what about the books that get started or even finished in the meantime? I have so many posts piled up waiting to be published right now and the books keep coming in and they keep getting read and I don't seem to be able to stop myself ... nor do I necessarily want to. I've got a mini vacation coming up in December and I've already got posts ready to auto-publish when I'm gone, but that only takes care of a couple of days at most.

Way back in early 2017, before my life started being problematic, I participated in WWW Wednesdays over at Taking On A World Of Words. I only meant to take a brief respite but, well, better late than not at all, right?

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

My Current Read : 

At the time of this typing, I am reading Jane K. Cleland's Jane Austen's Lost Letters, thanks to NetGalley and the kind folks at St. Martin's/Minotaur. I was more than a bit hesitant about starting this because it's the fourteenth book in a series I have never laid eyes on before. If you've been here ... ever ... you probably know about my fixation on reading things in order. BUT. There must be some exceptions and Jane Austen will probably always warrant an exception being made to just about every rule.

Luckily, so far anyway, I don't feel at all lost for not having read any of the previous thirteen books in the series. Even better? I now have thirteen new-to-me books on the ever-growing TBR. I don't know much about the world of antiques and never really figured I would care to know, but now I'm more than a bit fascinated at least with what goes into the art of authenticating letters. It helps when those letters may have been written by one of my favorite people. It's too bad the expert on the method that most intrigued me (dealing with weight and pressure points and whatnot) got knocked off fairly early in the book. I certainly hope Josie Prescott is good at solving murders and the person is dealt with most heinously. I'm guessing all will be resolved satisfactorily.  It is the fourteenth book, after all.

Recently Finished :

Thanks to another NetGalley grab, I read the first two books in Heather Redmond's A Dickens of a Crime series -- A Tale of Two Murders and Grave Expectations. Those will be reviewed/teased/posted this coming Friday and then the ARC in question probably next week. To be completely honest, had it not been for the ARC, I might not have bothered to continue after the first book. At least it was better than another ARC that I was in the process of slogging my way through. That one ended up making me a bit ranty so I scrapped it and took a mental health break with Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper's amazing Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village -- which you can find rambled about and teased here. After my brain breather I continued on with the second in the series. I may not squeeze the third one in, but I'll likely backtrack for it at some point.

What's Next :

I do, of course, have Heather Redmond's The Pickwick Murders coming due for review. That's set for release on the 26th of October which is a Tuesday which works perfectly with the regular swing of things around here. 

Beyond that, I have a bunch of back ARCs that got lost in the shuffle that I could/should get around to reading and there are two coming up in mid-November that I could grab. What I'll probably do, though, is get a start on Robert Bryndza's Kate Marshall series with Nine Elms. The ARC for the third in the series is already calling my name and that's not out until December. I should have plenty of time for the first two. Besides, I didn't have an "N" title for my Alphabet Soup challenge yet.