Fun Fiction

[Catrin]

Lph - I LOVE that series, good reading!

Malkin, there are several collections of Orthodox women saints and desert mothers that I dip into from time to time, I always bring positive things out of that.

[indysteel]

Most of what I read is either relatively heavy contemporary literature or historical nonfiction. I recently started a book club with some coworkers. We had our first meeting yesterday and discussed The History of Love. It went very well and the book made for some great discussion. I'm also just about to finish Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which just won the National Book Award for fiction. I'm enjoying it, but it plays to my politics. I'm also reading The Great Bridge by David McCullough. It's about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Interesting book and subject, but I can only read a bit. It's a good book to mix in with some fiction.

My guilty pleasure over the past year, however, has been The Spellman Series by Lisa Lutz. It's a five-book mystery series about a private investigator and her wacky family and love life. The books are pretty light but are both funny and poignant at times, too.

I misspoke. Billy Lynn was a National Book Award finalist but didn't win. The winner is also in my queue (The Round House), so I'll be eager to see if I agree with the decision (like my opinion matters in this regard!).

[Jolt]

I'm more of a nonfiction person as well, but I have enjoyed reading some of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. They're about a woman who takes a job as a bounty hunter (b/c she really needs a job and she has a relative in the business) and the ridiculous situations she gets into. Really funny, light reading.