I have about 7 books on deck right now and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with wonderful possibilities. I'm putting aside a perfectly fine Christopher Buckley (Wet Work) just because it isn't wonderful, which normally I wouldn't do, but I've got all of these other things going. There's a fictional bio of Emma Hamilton (which reads as a trashier Phillipa Gregory -- of The Other Boleyn Girl), a few mysteries I'd like to sample, Freddy and Fredricka, by one of my favorite writers, Mark Helprin -- whom I love for A Winter's Tale, rather than his Republican speech-writing ways. Side note: I'm always stunned that intelligent, sensitive people can be Republicans with a straight face. Still? After Bush? I mean, who voted for Bush A SECOND TIME???
That's really not my topic, though, so let's leave it. Anyway, I have the Helprin, plus a new Jodi Picoult. I'm not a Picoult fanatic as many seem to be, but I did like the one book by her that I read, My Sister's Keeper, about a collision between Amish people, the American legal system, and teen pregnancy. And there's The Curious Incident... that everyone except for me has read and loved, and a Graham Greene, can't remember which one.
Plus there are comics to review, and two or three recorded books to listen to. I should take a few days off of work to catch up on my leisure activities.
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