WWW Wednesday: 27 July 2022

Published on by Margaret

WWW Wednesday is run by Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

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

I’m currently reading J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. This is a book I’ve read several times over the years since the first time I read it, just after I left school (a long time ago). I have finished Book 1, The Fellowship of the Ring and have nearly finished Book 2, The Two Towers. This time round I am struck by Tolkien’s world building and his powers of description of the characters and the locations, but most of all by Tolkien’s storytelling – superb. I am reading this hardback book slowly, taking my time over it, just a small section each day – letting the story soak into my mind.

The other book I’m reading is A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, which is also a fantastic story. I’m reading this one quickly on my Kindle, so different from The Lord of the Rings, but although Shute’s style of writing in straight forward, almost plain language, is not at all like Tolkien’s he is also an excellent storyteller, bringing the characters to life. So far I am still in Malaya with Jean and her companions as they walk hundreds of miles around Malaya as prisoners of war of the Japanese.

I recently finished True Crime Story by Joseph Knox and wrote about it in this post. I didn’t enjoy it, as much as I had hoped, but after a confusing start it picked up at around the 50% mark. It’s a novel about a 19 year old university student who walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months and just disappeared. Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer Evelyn Mitchell begins piecing together what really happened in 2011.

As always I haven’t decided what to read next. I have so many books I’d love to read, but until I’ve finished The Lord of the Rings and A Town Like Alice, I just don’t know which one it will be.

15 thoughts on “WWW Wednesday: 27 July 2022”

  2. Yes, I’d rather like to reread The Lord of the Rings too, especially the first book as that’s my favourite. I read A Town Like Alice when I was a teenager and can’t remember a thing about it. I keep saying I’ll read more books by Nevil Shute as he wrote some crackers I believe.

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      1. You’ve probably worked out by now I’m a fan of the earlier adaptations of books. My husband laughs when I say “Do we really need another version of Pride & Prejudice?” 😁

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  5. Some books are worth re-reading, Margaret, and I can see how you’d include LOTR among them. And I’ve not read Shute’s work in a long time; I ought to re-acquaint myself, and A Town Like Alice is sa good ‘un.

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  7. I read LOTR for the first time only a few years ago. I loved the series, struggled a bit with the second book, but I could absolutely understand why people loved it so much. I must admit, I enjoyed the Hobbit more. Enjoy your re-read!

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