WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The three W’s stand for the following questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? To participate, make a post or comment answering the three questions, link up to the host (Sam)’s post, and check out what others are reading and talking about! I typically participate once a month, approximately in the middle of the month, as a halfway check-in on my monthly reading goals.
What Am I Currently Reading?
📚 Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age by Tony Reinke; Nonfiction – Theology
Current thoughts: This is a decent look at engaging with media from a Christian perspective, but it’s also kind of boring. Everything is true, but it’s not exactly compelling – there isn’t much “so what” thus far. But, I’m only about a quarter of the way through.
📚 Succeeding with Your Literature Review: A Handbook for Students by Paul Oliver; Nonfiction – Academic Writing
Current Thoughts: Why is there a pineapple on the cover of this book that clearly has nothing to do with fruit, tropical vacations, or anything moderately sweet?
Additional comments: Even though this is a textbook, I am including it here as a representation of all the books I’m reading for school. The nature of my current classes is that I am reading a lot of very short books, with none carrying over many days, but having only one book listed in the “currently reading” category feels deceptive since I am constantly reading a variety of books.
What Did I Recently Finish Reading?
For a full list of books I have read recently (mainly children’s picture books), see my Goodreads here.
📚 Tables in the Wilderness: A Memoir of God Found, Lost, and Found Again by Preston Yancey; Nonfiction – Theological Memoir
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My thoughts in a nutshell: Lots of interesting thoughts from a reasonable perspective. I’m going to be mulling over this for a while.
📚 Strange Planet: The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature by Nathan Pyle; Children’s Fiction Picture Book
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My thoughts in a nutshell: An extremely fun picture book that I highly recommend!
📚 Cast Away: Poems for Our Time by Naoimi Shihab Nye; Poetry
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
My thoughts in a nutshell: Interesting! Not all were to my taste, but definitely interesting, especially since this collection is marketed to middle school and upper elementary children. I expected the author to be younger than she is.
What Might I Read Next?
In addition to a thousand more picture books…
📚 A Nest for Celeste: A Story about Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home by Henry Cole
What I’m looking forward to: This is a novelization of John James Audubon’s life and apparently includes a lot of aspects about art and nature. It sounds uplifting and relatively cute!
📚 A Christmas in the Alps by Melody Carlson; (Christmas) Contemporary Christian Fiction
What I’m looking forward to: This book is set largely in France! And, the story sounds encouraging.
What books are you excited about today, Reader?
Until the next chapter,
Jana
Reviews From the Stacks 
Tables in the Wilderness sounds like a book I’d love. I will look for it.
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