It’s Wednesday again, time goes so fast it seems. After last week, I managed to finish several books, more than I thought. Were this the books I intended to read, or did I go rogue again and picked what my mood was wanting me to pick? It’s time to find out, isn’t it?

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words, where bloggers share the books that they’ve recently finished, what they are currently reading and what books they are planning to read next. Essentially you have to answer three questions (the Three Ws): What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Since I’m a mood reader, you have to take my last W with a grane of salt though. So, let’s take a look into my 3 W’s, shall we?

What are you currently reading?

The book I currently am reading is one of my most recent additions, Where Time Stands Still by N.S. Perkins. I knew it’s a romance novel with lots of serious themes and so far, it’s indeed pretty serious, but the writing is making me fly through this novel in a breeze. I’m close to the halfway mark already and I didn’t have much time to read over the past days. I’ve started this on Monday, so let’s see whenever I finish this!

What did you recently finish reading?

After last week’s WWW Wednesday post, I indeed finished If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. I always had the author’s name wrong, oops. However, I don’t belong to the right audience for this novel. I strongly recommend it to readers who love both murder mysteries and Shakespeare, it’s very niche.

After finishing this book, I read 2 originally Dutch novels in two whole different genres, Reünie in Spanje by Anna Thomas and Geheimen passen niet in een verhuisdoos by Marike Goslinga. Both have been sitting on that digital shelf of mine since 2021, so it was about time. The first book is the final one in a four-book series. In the Netherlands, we have a separate genre for feelgood novels, in which this book belongs. In English, I think it’s just general fiction, I’m not 100% sure. However, it was fine at best. The second book is a middle-grade, even though the characters are older. The main character is 14, but there are older characters in this story who really act like they’re much younger. I guess I bought this book during Children’s Books week, which is about to start again pretty soon. I wasn’t a fan of the execution of this book, characters and plot stay on the surface pretty much.

The final book I’ve started and finished this week has been sitting on my TBR even longer, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. I got myself a copy during the Covid pandemic and I think I left it on the shelf for so long as it’s a story set in 1980s Chicago during the AIDS crisis. However, I finally read it but am not sure if I feel like reviewing it. Anyway, I’ve been left disappointed. Many people seem to be intrigued by it, but for me it was just so-so.

What do you think you’ll read next?

Here we go again, that dreadful question which is always a problem for a mood reader like me. I think I will pic up a heavier book as my energy levels still seem appropriate for it now and the chance of me falling asleep whilst reading are smaller than later in the fall season. With daylight savings it’s most likely going downhill pretty quick, so I think now is a good time to read The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao or Born From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Especially the first two books require quite a bit of focus, maybe the third one as well. But that setting is familiar to me, so I’ll still be fine if I zone out a little.

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What does your WWW look like?