WWW Wednesdays #51

Mark Joseph Jochim

May 29

WWW Wednesdays is a bookish meme that was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by "fledgling writer" Sam A. Stevens on Taking on a World of Words. To participate, you just answer the Three W's:

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

Currently Reading:

^{The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell (published January 20, 2015)}

I was inspired to read The Train to Crystal City by Susan Meissner's novel The Last Year of the War. It's a fairly easy read extensively detailing the southern Texas camp that housed Japanese, German, and Latin American internees during World War II.

^{The Trackers by Charles Frazier (published April 11, 2023)}

The Trackers is another classic by Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier, this time set in the American West of the 1930s with the plot involving a painter of post office murals.

^{The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living}^{by Ryan Holiday (published October 18, 2016)}

Recently Finished:

^{Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly} ^{by Kenneth C. Davis (published November 22, 2022)}

I got a number of good reading recommendations from Kenneth C. Davis's Great Short Books -- classics and more contemporary works.

^{Argylle by Elly Conway (published January 4, 2024)}

Argylle is quite good, mostly involving a search for the legendary Amber Room. Only the titular character remains from the recent movie and the expected prequel to that probably is based upon this book as it gives his backstory.

Reading Next:

^{The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (published January 23, 2024)}

This will be a month set in the U.S. West and Southwest, starting with Elizabeth Gonzalez James's magical realism novel The Bullet Swallower and continuing with Frederick Nolan's brief history of the region.