Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Not yet convinced that I like it. It might have won a Pulitzer, but I continue to wait for the story to start and I'm almost a quarter of the way through.
I was disappointed in this book as well. I've tried it twice and couldn't really do it either time. Which is disappointing because The Virgin Suicides is one of my top ten reads of all time.
(Eugenides has an anthology coming out next year with the alluring title My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead.)
I just gave up on The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber. Between the pages of description of what an intellectual property lawyer does (unnecessary, IMO) and the fact that I've got to page 30 and there's still no indication of any plot starting, I just couldn't get into it.
So now I'm starting on Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence, which I just got as a big fancy all-in-one volume.
Double Bind is what I'm listening to on CD in my car (commuter entertainment).
and I'm reading The Other Boleyn Girl at home when I get a chance of it.
I've just started Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I seems like everyone and their mother have read this book so I thought I'd give it a whirl. The subject matter is really not my cup of tea but I'm enjoying it nonetheless.
I'm reading "Taken on Trust", the autobiography of Terry Waite. Okay, so it's not fiction, but it's great. How unthinkable would it be to be kidnapped and held hostage in a foreign country. I can't believe what these hostages go through.
I'm re-reading a Jonathan Kellerman, The Conspiracy Club. I'm bored and out of books, but as I've forgotten almost all of it since my first reading, I'm enjoying it.
I'm half way through 'Fall of Kings', the third book in David Gemmell's 'Troy' trilogy (co-written with his wife Stella, because sadly David died before he could complete it.)
I never thought I'd enjoy this type of book, but the first in the trilogy was lying around (my husband's an avid Gemmell fan) so I picked it up to have a browse, and was hooked from page one!
I'm reading 'Bad Men' by John Connolly. It started of quite spooky, as before I went to bed it already started messing with my mind. I got back into it yesterday, and it feels like a complete different story now. Typical bank robbers and murders reunite, and trying to hunt down someone for revenge now. This will end up at the Dutch Island-which has a spooky feel to it.
I'm SO glad I have no delusions of writing like this guy -- he blows me away. I'm loving it so far, but it takes me so long to read one of his because I keep re-reading passages that just plain rock.
Later today, I have three books to start: A Bradbury short story collection, Good Omens and a book by one of the blokes who made Red Dwarf called Incompitence. Looking forward to all three.
I'm at least 2/3rds the way through "Younger Next Year" and I'm dissapointed that it's about 90 percent pep-talk and only 10 percent hard info.
Also reading "Best American Science Writing 2004", a collection of various articles. There's a longish one on the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy and how it happened, beaurocratically as well as technically, and it's enough to make you cry.
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