What's Everyone Reading - 2009

[magrat]

I just finished The Thirteenth Tale. It was...very gothic. I won't say I didn't enjoy it, but you'd have to like things in the Victorian gothic style to like it. The writing was very good though, and there were definitely some unexpected twists.

Just started The Nakesake and I'm really enjoying it so far.

[honeygirl]

I finished Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi last night and then quickly followed it with a quick chick lit novel called Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham. She's the same author that wrote the Shopaholic series, but is using a different pen name now (maybe her real one?).

Reading Lolita in Tehran required attention and focus, and I found it taking me longer than usual to read through. It is both a instructional type book (she's an English Professor) but also an intensely personal memoir of her life and experiences in Iran during the revolution. I highly recommend it, especially if you're a English lit fan.

Cocktails for Three on the other hand was a silly, quick, novel. It was a fun switch after the more serious Tehran subject, but not exactly one I'd recommend.