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.
Currently Listening To
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
In Jordan Castro’s inventive, funny, and surprisingly tender first novel, we follow a young man over the course of a single morning as he tries and fails to write an autobiographical novel, finding himself instead drawn into the infinite spaces of Twitter, quotidian rituals, and his own mind. — From the Publisher
Recently Listened To
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill – from the Publisher
I don’t know what happened, but I wasn’t caught up on the Hawthorne and Horowitz mysteries! (Now I am.)
This post is linked to “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Check out the link-up party there for more book lists!
It’s funny when we put books on our TBR lists then don’t read them for years, finally get to them and have no idea how they ended up on the list in the first place. Life is too short to read books that don’t work for us.