WWW Wednesday: March 19th, 2025

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at 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?

Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday.

Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!!

Happy Reading!

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What I am currently reading:

Alissia Roswell left her abusive, childhood home immediately following her high school graduation–swearing she would never return. After ten years of hard work, she’s finally satisfied with her place in life. Highly independent, she takes great pride in needing no one other than herself. When she learns of her father’s sudden death, she decides to return to her hometown for the funeral. A visit to the old oak tree concealing her teenage diary pulls her into an alternate world, where her body begins to change in mysterious ways. As everything spins out of her control, with danger lurking around every corner, she’s forced to rely upon others. Her mind soon becomes her enemy, haunting her with memories from her past, while her heart strays from her control, teasing her with the incomprehensible notion of love.

Join Alissia on her perilous quest full of adventure, magic, and romance as she travels the challenging road of finding one self–maybe even love along the way.

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What I recently finished reading:

FROM #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATHERINE KING
The first chapter in The Tangled Series

All of my life I had dreamed of opening a restaurant of my own someday in California. Taking the General Manager position at Reid Vineyard’s new restaurant would give me the experience I need, the only thing lacking on my resume. Meeting someone like Lucas Reid wasn’t part of my plan…

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What I plan on reading next:

The wall isn’t to keep them out…it’s to keep us in.

They are coming for you…
…they got me yesterday.

Remember the retweet you made last week?
The Facebook like yesterday?

They were government messages intended to get you to self-identify.

Anderson came home from the wars to hard times.

Broke, divorced, and working a low paying job, the only place he sees the American dream is on television.

Then a mysterious man offers him $5 million dollars to kill five people.

Can he complete his mission and escape?

Or is he just another detail to be cleaned up?

He is the spark.

Bobby Calhoun is a TV reporter in Houston.

When a new terrorist organization starts sending him messages, he becomes the target of the FBI.

Will he assist or resist?

Did he try to stop a massacre? Or did he cause it?

He is the patsy.

The largest change in over 150 years is coming to America.

A decade ago Carl Milibank told reporters that he would be the world’s first trillionaire.

He hasn’t been seen in public in over three years.

He is in charge of the American response in the trade war with China.

Can he deliver the dystopian plan?

If he fails they will kill him.

He is the manager.

It starts with the murder of a cop in Houston two days from now.

A large family saga set in a coastal tourist town.
One sister chained by family tradition.
The second stunted by her sister’s shadow.
The youngest propelled by desperation.

Gwen is the oldest of four children in the Aaldenberg family, and the one who seems to have it all. She’s also most desperate to escape. Betta, having nursed their dying grandpa for the past three years, is anxious for Gwen to go, so she can finally have reins to the family business. And Esmerelda, viciously determined to follow in Gwen’s footsteps, vies for popularity as a freshman in high school, only to learn she must sell her soul, reputation, and most prized possession for acceptance.

As their father struggles with retirement and their mother with depression, Gwen discovers the debt her grandfather’s passing left them in—and during a time of year when their coastal town, dependent on tourists, can barely sustain itself. Gwen and their father agree Betta can’t take over the store under such stressful circumstances, not when she’s been carrying the load for so long, and to protect Betta, they play it off that she needs some time to rest.

When Gwen’s fiancé moves to town, Gwen does her best to resign herself to a local life, while Betta struggles for meaning without the store. In order to carve out a place for herself, Betta must decide to what lengths she’ll go in order to become her own person, and Gwen must decide what’s more her sister or her future.

Can this family pull through their disappointment, jealousy, and regret? Or will they cling so tightly to their desires that it ruins them?

She doesn’t trust people. But can she team up with a service dog to save a missing child and catch a murderer?

Animal behaviorist September Day protects her broken heart by keeping everyone at arm’s length. Still distraught over her husband’s death in the line of duty, she heads back to her Texas home to launch a dog-training business. But her grief takes a back seat when her autistic nephew goes missing in a freak blizzard.

Partnering with the boy’s support pup Shadow, September uncovers a shocking conspiracy hiding a deadly “miracle drug.” Hounded by vengeful enemies, human and dog must learn to work together and sniff out the source of corruption before more vulnerable kids die.

Can September and Shadow forge a bond and stop a ruthless conspiracy and relentless killer?

Lost And Found is the first action-packed installment in the gripping September and Shadow series. If you like dark suspense, novice detectives, and courageous animals, then you’ll love Amy Shojai’s roller-coaster thrillers.

DEZ: If my life were a movie, this would be the pivotal scene: a guy peering through his bedroom window at a beautiful girl. I’m the guy, seventeen, somewhat troubled, watching the girl sit on her porch step, crying. The camera closes in on the guy’s face, tighter and tighter. He smiles, but it’s not sweet. It’s…odd. The kind of smile that gives the viewer that prickly feeling deep in their gut.

Yeah, I do this a lot—watch my life through the eyes of a director. Maybe because I want to be that one person in charge. I wish I didn’t crave control. But I do . . . badly. And though I might not be able to control Riley, I can help get her to where she needs to be. Convince. Persuade. Protect. I’ll make Riley love me, even if it means I have to play the villain.

RILEY: I won’t let this destroy me. I’ll just keep my head up, ears closed, and try not to look at their faces at school tomorrow. I should be used to it by now. This is just how it goes around here. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it’s social death row. I’m the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone.

Dead girl walking.

Thank God I have Dez. Sometimes I feel like he’s the only person who understands…