Totally hopping on this new weekly meme that Birdie Bookworm posted about today. It’s called WWW Wednesday and it’s hosted by Taking on a World of Words, but it was originally created at A Daily Rhythm. To play along, just answer three questions on your own blog, and then leave a link to your post in the comment section at Taking on a World of Words!

The questions are:

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

What Are You Currently Reading?

I just started reading Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner. My book club will be discussing it next week and per usual I seem to be running behind with it. It’s a mystery with revolving narrators which seems to be very on trend right now. Here’s a description from goodreads:

Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace.

Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big.

Is Edith alive or dead? Was her ‘complex love life’ at the heart of her disappearance, as a senior officer tells the increasingly hungry press? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning?

What Did You Recently Finish Reading?

I just finished reading The Crown by Kiera Cass, which is the final book in The Selection series. I put this book off for awhile because the previous book in the series was frankly not quite up to par with the rest of the series. Or really, because the main character was borderline severely unlikable for about 75% of the book.

It’s clear to me that this was the author’s full intention and if you were hoping for a major amount of character growth, I promise you it is coming. The final book in the series completely makes up for the previous book and it was a wonderful, quick read that finally gives you the love story you were waiting for.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Here’s a description of the book but honestly, you have to go back to the beginning and read The Selection first if you are new to the series.

When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illéa to hold her own Selection, she didn’t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. She spent the first few weeks of the competition counting down the days until she could send them all home. But as events at the palace force Eadlyn even further into the spotlight, she realizes that she might not be content remaining alone.

Eadlyn still isn’t sure she’ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible—and more important—than she ever imagined.

What do you think you’ll read next?

Well I’m still trying to find time to finish Roseblood by A.G. Howard, a kind of modern retelling of Phantom of the Opera, which I started reading a couple of months ago but had to put down for the last book club pick and haven’t picked it back up again. I was really enjoying it though so I’ll probably try to get back to it before starting our April pick.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is our next book club pick, which:

“…intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.”

It’s a bit of a modern classic that a lot of people adore and I’m told it’s Larson’s best work. I truthfully  found the last book I read by him, In The Garden of Beasts, to be a bit dry. Apparently this one is supposed to be better. I guess we’ll find out!

What have you been reading lately?