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WWW Wednesdays :-)

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Via Should Be Reading, another game, w00t!

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

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

My answers . . .

What are you currently reading? This is a bit of a dupe from yesterday of course — Charterhouse of Parma,  a 19th century French novel by Stendhal.

What did you recently finish reading? Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and An Absence of Angels by Julie Harris. (Historical fiction, enjoyed it very much!)

What do you think you’ll read next? I just found out this morning that Wickedly Charming, a novel by Kristine Grayson, a.k.a. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is available for free this week on Kindle. Rusch’s husband Dean Wesley Smith writes that the book is “about publishing. It is wonderful fun and even has Sheldon McArthur the book dealer as a character.”

I downloaded a copy and I bet that’s what I read next :-)

No royalties necessary, a bit of biscuit is fine

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Joe Woodward, at Poets and Writers, explores the narrated-by-critters genre, which (he notes) started with George Orwell’s Animal Farm and in the past few years has grown to include Timbuktu, by Paul Auster; Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, by Sigrid Nunez; and The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer.

Woodward then goes on to review this year’s newest additions, Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile, Verlyn Klinkenborg (February, Knopf) and Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, Sam Savage (next month, Coffee House Press).

The article doesn’t mention Paul Gallico’s The Silent Miaow. But that was, strictly speaking, non-fiction, insofar as it was a how-to manual for stray cats. So the oversight is understandable.