Currently reading
Almost No Memory
Selected Poems
The Tiger's Wife
Charles Dickens (Penguin Lives)
The Mansion of Happiness
Schriften
ooch, pretty crappy imo. "Amelia had once heard someone say that you could tell what a woman's orgasm would be like if you heard her sneeze." (p. 127)
I wouldn't put that in anyone's mouth, not even a character I despised; it's just too lame.
At the same time it's an easy read with a decent entertainment factor, if you can stand a cringe here and there. Also too much banal interior monologue.
The Stephen King blurb says "Not just the best novel I read this year, but the best mystery of the decade." - Ok, now I know why I don't read mysteries.
My mom left this at my house. Anybody want it?