WWW Wednesday - 25 January 2023

The Three Ws are:

What did you recently finish reading?

What are you currently reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Recently Finished : 

 

I finally finished The Winter King and it was absolutely amazing. It ended up getting three blog posts all of its own -- plus the mention in last week's WWW Wednesday "Currently Reading." It you want to see some teasers, they were posted Tuesday, Friday, and in the wee small hours of Monday. I almost went straight into the next one in the trilogy as it's already on my actual bookshelf, but the whole "should be reading" guilt got to me and I grabbed from my NetGalley shelf instead...

 

Misha Popp's A Good Day to Pie wasn't quite what I was expecting as a follow-up to Magic, Lies and Deadly Pies -- one of my favorite debuts of 2022. It wasn't bad and I flew through it in maybe a day and a half, but it was far more "cozy mystery" and less "serial killer heroine" than the first.

Currently Reading:

I had no idea who Ben Macintyre was until I watched Rogue Heroes on Epix and before the first episode was completely done I had quite a collection of Macintyre books on the way. I threw them all on my bed before heading out to work Tuesday night, closed my eyes, and just grabbed one at random. Operation Mincemeat won the random grab.

Amazon Description:

 The “brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful—and certainly the strangest—deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor

“Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else.”—Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book World

Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.

Ben Macintyre’s dazzling, critically acclaimed bestseller chronicles the extraordinary story of what happened after British officials planted this dead body—outfitted in a British military uniform with a briefcase containing false intelligence documents—in Nazi territory, and how this secret mission fooled Hitler into changing military positioning, paving the way for the Allies’ drive to victory.

It's not at all my normal type of read but I think that might be exactly what I need right now.

 

 

What's Next?

Yeah, it should be a NetGalley. There are sooooooo many. I figure I'll just keep alternating my NetGalley shelf with what I either already actually own or books I "should" read before the ones on NetGalley because of series continuity and whatnot. I keep getting books that aren't the first in a series so backtracking is a must. I'm still largely avoiding romance because I've already cried every day for 47 days straight and I really would rather not continue that trend .... but pretty much anything I read that's good will cause tears anyway because once upon a time (like, 48 days ago) they would have then been shared .... but whatever.  Operation Mincemeat (really, any of the Macintyres) would most certainly fall into the "ooooh he would love this" category and will probably need at least one box of non-romance-related kleenex so maybe not the best option for the "Currently Reading." I'll try to pick something he wouldn't care about for whatever comes next....