Found in a state park gift shop

I’ve been busy this week catching up on stuff after a crash weekend trip to visit some of my husband’s family in Kentucky.  I took a couple books with me, expecting not to have access to any reading materials, but made a pleasant discovery while killing time in a state park gift shop: a like-new copy of a recent Indiana Review for 75 cents!  I’m trying to acquaint myself with the overall “bent” (tone, theme, editorial style, readership) of various literary journals, but haven’t spent time with this one yet, so it was a serendipitous find – and a bit of a gem amidst the tarnishing keychains and magnets bearing the state logo (but made in China)!

On the drive back, in addition to catching up on some of our favorite podcasts I started reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans.  Finished it last night, and still processing – but I promise to post a review soon.  I also owe you a review of  Haven Kimmel’s Something Rising (Light and Swift), which I read last week.  (The books on my finished-and-waiting-to-review shelf are starting to topple!) 

I’m still working my way through Gooch’s biography of Flannery O’Connor and my husband’s biography of Katherine Parr, both of which are balancing out my sudden plunge into fiction — something I find myself doing from time to time.  (Do you ever just need to get away from your own life for awhile and find nothing but a big stack of novels will do the trick?)  I’ve also been lingering over the latest issue of Poets & Writers and the Spring/Summer Persephone Biannually.

So tell me — what are you reading this week?

03. June 2009 by Mindy
Categories: Currently reading, Your turn | 4 comments

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