I'm getting a big kick out of Steve Kluger's My Most Excellent Year, which came highly recommended. I'm especially loving the blended family aspect and, as someone who is extremely familiar with the town of Brookline, it makes me smile to see the mish-mash liberties the author takes with locations and landmarks. The book is extremely fanciful, in a pleasing way. Augie is one of the greatest characters to come along in recent memory.
My summer TBR pile is, er, piling up. Next up I'm jumping feet first into Little Dorrit, then catching up on my Sarah Dessen (I'm at least two books behind). I've also got the big titles of 2009 to get to: Tender Morsels, Octavian Nothing Part 2 and The Hunger Games. Plus, I know it's not exactly beach reading, but I just added The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti to my wish list.
What's on deck for everyone out there? I'm a shameless reading list voyeur, and it inevitably leads to my pile getting out of control. Luckily having an out-of-control TBR pile is among my favorite problems.
Written material copyright 2009 Dawn A. Emerman
Loved that book. Steve Kluger's doing a reading at Porter Square Books tonight - I'm planning on heading out there after work.
Posted by: Laura | May 12, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Little Dorrit is, ostensibly, on my TBR list too. I've got a bunch of GNs to read, plus Kavalier and Clay for book group, and I'm going to finish Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, plus Disreputable history of Frankie Landau Banks (is it coincidence that she has same inits as Francesca Lia Block?)
My intentions are about as organized as that sentence. Oy.
Posted by: Girl Detective | May 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM