My Immediate Book Meme

It’s one of those internet things, this one started by DarwinCatholic.  He (or is it she?) says:

There are plenty of memes that want to know all about your book history and your all-time greats and your grand ambitions, but let's focus on something more revealing: the books you're actually reading now, or just read, or are about to read. Let's call it The Immediate Book Meme.

 It’s just six questions with short answers.  No elaboration.  Here goes.

1. What book are you reading now?

Washington Square by Henry James. 

 

Well, that’s the main one; there are three others, that I’m bouncing around with.  I might as list them too:

Gerard Manly Hopkins: Poems and Prose, Selected and Edited by W. H. Gardner.

Julius Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy.

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, by Prue Shaw.

2. What book did you just finish?

Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain.

3. What do you plan to read next?

The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis.  For Lent.

4. What book do you keep meaning to finish?

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo.

5. What book do you keep meaning to start?

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6. What is your current reading trend?

19^th Century American.

Feel free to list your answers here or link here to your blog.