Feb/08: You know the question.....

I'm reading The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation by John Lorinc for my book club on public policy issues.

Just finished Bel Canto for the second time and loved it, again.

Just started Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother.

I read that! It was pretty good, but I liked his Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time better.

I agree! I'm now going to read Bill Buford's Heat.

I'm reading Icefields by Thomas Wharton which is one of the Canada Reads nominees.

Now, I'm about to start Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley. I've read this several times before, but not recently.

All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman, which I heard about on CBC radio.

I've started The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky. I loved his Cod.

Finished Heat, read The Translator A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari, and am now in the middle of Etgar Keret's The Nimrod Flipout. Keret's short stories are surreal and very accomplished.

Since the weather today is very bad-ice, snow, melt, more ice- I have finished the Etgar Keret book and am starting the Giller prize winner Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay.

I'm reading The Red Tent and can't believe I haven't read this book before now. It's such an amazing book. I stayed up very late reading it the first night and I know I'll be finished it very quickly and then sorry that it's over. What a treasure!

The Red Tent has been on my TBR shelf for a long time. Maybe I'll read it now....or soon, at least.

I'm reading When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It about the parts of speech, by Ben Yagoda

The Red Tent was excellent, I had to give myself a day of no reading when I finished just to let myself bask in the book. I love books like that.

Now I'm reading Icefields which is interesting, I'm liking the imagery, I do wish he'd used plain and simple quotation marks though, I find the dashes distracting.

I'm reading The Desire of Every Living Thing, which is a memoir recommended to me by someone on LT.