Monday, February 24, 2014

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

I've been having an interesting reading week. When I went to England I saw and passed on a book called The Marrying of Chani Kaufman, long-listed for the Booker Prize about a young woman getting married in the London Jewish Orthodox community. I sort of regretted passing on it but then I found out it's coming out here in April. Then I found a galley at work! So I read that book this week and enjoyed it a lot. I'll review it closer to the release date but keep your eye out- I recommend it.

As far as what I'm still reading, I'm still working my way through Hild and The Siege of Krishnapur, both very good if not exactly page-turners. But they are good. They are just very slow reads. With Hild, I need at least an hour to read to get into it and it's rare that I have that much time at a stretch. It's so worth it when I do though!

I'm also reading Deirdre Madden's Time Present and Time Past, about a Dublin family and their secrets, past and present. The main characters are Fintan and Martina, middle-aged brother and sister, who each have things to discover about themselves and others. Fintan takes an interest in old autochrome photography and starts having hallucinations; Martina is a successful entrepreneur with memories from the past which insist on resurfacing. I love the book. This was another that I bought on my trip and that is now set to come out in the US later this spring. I'm really glad I'm not waiting to read it!

What about you? What are you reading this week? See more at BookJourney.wordpress.com.

2 comments:

bermudaonion said...

I have to be in the right mood to read books like that. I'm reading Byrd by Kim Church.

Mystica said...

Such an interesting mix of reads. The last book specially.