What are you reading in March/08?

I'm travelling across Canada again (for business) and have lots of time on planes and, unfortunately, in airports! So, I've finished Tell Me that you Love Me, Junie Moon and will now start The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Then, into an airport bookstore if there are any more flight delays.

I'm trying my hand at reading 3 books at the same time. I'm alternating between The Stand, The Crystal Cave and In a Sunburned Country. I couldn't decide which one to read so I took the easy way out (I hope, I'm usually a one book at a time girl). Also listening to The Silver Chair.

I'm reading a Canadian novel, The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan, and enjoying it. It's about a crime committed in a small community, but mainly from the perspectives of neighbours who had no clue or premonition that such troubles existed so close to them.

The Boys in the Trees was superb.

Now, I'm off to Africa (at least in my reading): Unfeeling by Ian Holding which is about post-independence in an African country and the reclaiming of family farms.

Finished Unfeeling (there's a storm raging...what else can I do?) I've started Departure Lounge by Chad Taylor and the first chapter has grabbed me.

Reading Stephen Marche's Shining at The Bottom of the Sea.

I'm about to start Continentalizing Canada by Gregory J. Inwood for my book club on Canadian public policy. It's about the policy and legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission on the economic union and prospects for devleopment.

I've read Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, who is one of my favourite authors, but definitely not to everyone's taste.

Now I'm reading No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again by Edgardo Vega Yunque. I just couldn't resist that title.

I'm reading Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan. Her first novel, Random Passage was one of the best books I've ever read.

I loved Stephen Marche's Shining at The Bottom of The Sea and am now reading a quick mystery Iain Pears's book The Last Judgement and Colin Thurbron's travel book Shadow of the Silk Road.
Lynn B, did you see the CBC series Random Passage? How does the book compare to it?

I finished off Fifth Business by Robertson Davies yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised. For some reason I had always assumed his work was rather dull and pedantic. Glad to find that incorrect, I'll certainly be reading more of his works.

torontoc, I didn't know there was a tv series on Random Passage until I read the fly-leaf of Cloud of Bone. Guess that's why I read so many books, I'm not much of a tv watcher. But, I would like to see it and will watch for re-runs.

I'm reading Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday. It's very funny, in a "Yes, Minister" way.

I'd like to know what you think of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. It is on my "I really should read that book" list.

I am reading One for My Baby by Tony Parsons for a book club.

torontoc, I'll let you know about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. This is a book my husband and I are reading together as we commute to work, so I won't get through it as quickly as a I usually do. So far, we're both enjoying it and finding it funny. A bit of a challenge to read aloud, though, because some chapters consist of letters and e-mails between characters.

I'm reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I can't believe I haven't read it until now.

torontoc, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was funny and satirical, and we were just loving it. Unfortunately, it didn't finish as strong as it started. I love politics and work in the bureaucracy -- I enjoyed it in spite of the relatively weak ending.