Reading...

[starzki]

I finished Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale last week and it is definitely going in my Top Five Books Ever Read, like Ever, List.  It was so good that I got really sad after I read it because I can never read it again for the first time.  It ended not at all the way I thought it would, and I'm the kind of asshole that skips ahead and reads the last few sentences of the story, so hat's off to Ms. Atwood for being able to pull that off.

So I went and bought another Atwood book and I'm really afraid I'll be disappointed because now my expectations are so high.  I haven't started reading it yet, though.

I am reading Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves.  I am not a stickler for grammar (I do my best), but I do like apostrophes going in the right spots.  If grad school has taught me anything, it's taught me to skim (how else can one read 800 pages of text in a week?), so I tend not to notice grammar very often.  If it's close enough, my brain doesn't catch the mistake.  But Truss's book is hilarious so far and I'm enjoying it.

I'm also reading the next installment of Koontz's Frankenstein books.  There's not a whole lot to say about it, and I'm half-way through.  It's good for attempting to turn my brain off before bed.  And when I wake up in the early morning hours with insomnia.  It's not earth shattering work by any stretch, but it's engaging and entertaining and sometimes that's all I want.

I think I'm just binging on literature because I'm about to OD on academic stuff in the coming spring semester.  I have to get my fix on good writing now, because I won't have time for it later.