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).  I’ll be reviewing it soon.  I also recently finished A.S. Byatt’s Possession, about which I had heard much praise — well-deserved, I can now attest!  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.  That was a good decision.

Now sitting at the top of the stack is Stacy Schiff’s biography of Cleopatra.  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.  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?

13. January 2011 by Mindy
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