Currently Reading
NW by Zadie Smith
This is on my Big Book Summer challenge list (416 pages). I’ve had the hardcover on my shelf a very long time, as it was published ten years ago. Of course, now — halfway through — I’m sorry that it took me so long!
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
I have no recollection of why I put a long-ago hold on this novel from 2019, but when the suspension ended and it showed up for me, it looked like a light summer read and I brought it home. I’m about 50 pages in, though, and am just about ready to set it aside. The main character is a young woman in the man’s world of late-night comedy TV, with Hugo Best being the aging star of a show that’s been canceled by the network. It’s not that I don’t like dark humor, but maybe I’m just too old or this book hasn’t aged well. I could be comparing it unfavorably to Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, which I read a few months ago and loved and is about a young female TV comedy writer.