Currently reading
I didn’t get as much reading done last month as I hoped, but I did manage to read Peter Geye’s beautiful Safe from the Sea, which happened to be my first book read start-to-finish on an eReader (a Kindle). Â I’ll be reviewing it soon. Â I also recently finished A.S. Byatt’s Possession, about which I had heard much praise — well-deserved, I can now attest! Â After reading her A Whistling Woman last fall (not realizing it was the last of a quartet), I knew I had to add her to my “deep reading” project — where I read all the titles by a particular author — and decided I might as well continue with the one for which she is most well-known. Â That was a good decision.
Now sitting at the top of the stack is Stacy Schiff’s biography of Cleopatra. Â I’ve had my eye on this since it came out, and after downing the first chapter in the bookstore where I was gladly spending a Christmas gift card, decided this was one I’d definitely want to keep. Â I also just picked up from my library The Line, Olga Grushin’s follow-up to her debut The Dream Life of Sukhanov, which I enjoyed (and reviewed) a couple years ago.
What are you reading?
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