Wednesday Reading meme (kinda late)
Aug. 7th, 2014 01:51 amI always intend to do this ...
What are you currently reading?
Dillinger in Hollywood by John Sayles - collection of short stories (contemporary litfic). Really fun and I'm enjoying it a lot! He has a great ear for capturing character voices and portraying a diverse array of communities, most of which I assume he doesn't belong to - so, you know, grain of salt on the authenticity of the portrayals, but he's a good storyteller. My favorite story in the book so far dealt with a racially mixed group of women on a bus to visit their husband/boyfriends/sons in prison, and the friendships & social bonding between the women contrasted with the racially/socially stratified prison world of their men. Other stories in the book (of the ones I've read so far) deal with a Hollywood nursing home, a Nantucket-area family torn apart by their generations-long search for pirate treasure, and a group of female shrimp peelers in New Orleans.
What did you recently finish reading?
61 Hours by Lee Child, latest in the Jack Reacher suspense novels that my husband and I have been plowing through, but I think this one might have cured me of reading any more of them for a while, because the ending REALLY did not play fair with the reader and it annoyed the heck out of me. ( Spoilers for the end of the novel )
What do you think you'll read next?
I'm not sure! Maybe I'll switch to nonfiction for awhile. I have The Horse and the Wheel sitting on my to-read pile (Indo-Europeans!) and also have FBI by Ronald Kessler (thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
magistrate's rec) sitting around for law-enforcement writing background.
What are you currently reading?
Dillinger in Hollywood by John Sayles - collection of short stories (contemporary litfic). Really fun and I'm enjoying it a lot! He has a great ear for capturing character voices and portraying a diverse array of communities, most of which I assume he doesn't belong to - so, you know, grain of salt on the authenticity of the portrayals, but he's a good storyteller. My favorite story in the book so far dealt with a racially mixed group of women on a bus to visit their husband/boyfriends/sons in prison, and the friendships & social bonding between the women contrasted with the racially/socially stratified prison world of their men. Other stories in the book (of the ones I've read so far) deal with a Hollywood nursing home, a Nantucket-area family torn apart by their generations-long search for pirate treasure, and a group of female shrimp peelers in New Orleans.
What did you recently finish reading?
61 Hours by Lee Child, latest in the Jack Reacher suspense novels that my husband and I have been plowing through, but I think this one might have cured me of reading any more of them for a while, because the ending REALLY did not play fair with the reader and it annoyed the heck out of me. ( Spoilers for the end of the novel )
What do you think you'll read next?
I'm not sure! Maybe I'll switch to nonfiction for awhile. I have The Horse and the Wheel sitting on my to-read pile (Indo-Europeans!) and also have FBI by Ronald Kessler (thanks to
magistrate's rec) sitting around for law-enforcement writing background.