After the Winter...

After I finished The Winter Vault I went on a bit of a junk food reading blitz. Suffice it to say, I really didn't know why that book was a Giller Nominee... oh well, there is no accounting for taste! Anyhow, I just finished And Another Thing, by Eion Colfer which is the 6th in Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy... yes, it's trying to be that cute. The book fit well in the series in tone and plot and character. Colfer did a nice job.

I still need to find the 5th Giller Nominee.

I have also been reading a lot of plays - submitted ones and ones for my class. Here is a sample (but not all of them):
The Rez Sisters
Les Belles Souers
Hosanna
Leaving Home
Vimy
Perfect Pie
Lion in the Streets
Village of Idiots
The Threepenny Opera
Cabaret
Nine
The Penelopiad
Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil
and a whole bunch more...

I Don't Know How It Happened...

A year or so ago I picked up two interesting looking books that I found in a used book store. They were by Jasper Fforde. I meant to read them, but they went into the 'stack of books to read' and I forgot about them. Then, the other day, I packed up the first one and thought it would make a good 'car reading book'. It was The Eyre Affair. I LOVED IT! I quickly tore through the next book in the series and then when I was about 25 pages from the end of that one I drove to two book stores to find the next three books in the series. If you like books (and reading about books), if you like funny books (like Douglas Adams kind of stuff), if you have read a lot of books, particularly classics and you would enjoy reading about a universe where the Complete Works of Shakespeare is legally mandatory in all hotel rooms (right next to the Gideon's Bible, the Koran, and various other religious books), then you would like this series. I am halfway through the 3rd book (Well of Lost Plots) and very much enjoying it!