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?

Currently I’m reading Regeneration by Pat Barker, the first in her Regeneration Trilogy, set during the First World War.

Description on Goodreads:

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers’s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients’ minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker’s Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.‘One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation’ Guardian Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker’s essential trilogy about the First World War. Discover the whole Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road

The last book I read was Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. This is the only book left I didn’t finish reading for my 20 Books of Summer Challenge 2024. It had been on my TBR list for a few years, so I was determined to read it. The reason I haven’t read it before is that I have a paperback copy and I’ve got too used to reading on my Kindle with the ability to enlarge the text.

I had high hopes that this psychological thriller was going to be good as so many people had enthused over it. Could it live up to all the hype? Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno meet on a train. Bruno manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. “Some people are better off dead,” Bruno remarks, “like your wife and my father, for instance.” It began very slowly and I’m sorry to say that I began to get bored, in fact I almost abandoned it. But I persevered and it did improve towards the end. But it didn’t live up to all the hype for me – maybe the wrong book at the wrong time. I’ll be writing more about this book.

What will I read next? At the moment I’m not at all sure. It could be Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen.

Description on Amazon:

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy.

In Getting Better, he shares his story and the lessons he has learned along the way. Exploring the roles that trauma and grief have played in his own life, Michael investigates the road to recovery, asking how we can find it within ourselves to live well again after – or even during – the darkest times of our lives. Moving and insightful, Getting Better is an essential companion for anyone who has loved and lost, or struggled and survived.

Or it could be something else.