Wednesday What Are You Reading

[kafj]

I haven't been reading much the last few weeks. Not a huge amount to report this week, either.

Recently finished

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion. This had the old compulsive plot thing going on, but I felt very uncomfortable reading it, and if it hadn't been for book club I'd probably have abandoned it. The portrayal of the protagonist felt caricatured and geared for cheap laughs. All the way through I felt it was mocking my friends, and possibly me.


Currently reading

European History for Dummies, Seán Lang. Does what it says on the tin - very much in the honourable tradition of Horrible Histories, but with actual dates and stuff, which is what I need at the moment. I could do without the feeble puns in the section headings, but otherwise I'm reasonably impressed.

The Naming of the Dead (Ian Rankin), for the other book club. Not getting on very well with this: Rebus annoys me. I'm hoping it will pick up.


Up Next

I picked up The Bishop's Mantle (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) in a charity shop the other day. I've seen this recommended around and about as a kind of American Barchester, so rather looking forward to this.


Poetry
Allen Ginsberg
Emily Dickinson
John Donne


Other media

Pretty much exclusively Wimbledon at the moment.