I've been reading a lot. And I have a lot of halfway finished books. AWESOME books.
I'm halfway through The Tiger's Wife, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Stay Awake, and I'm almost through with The Blood Sugar Solution.
These should be reviewed sometime soon, hopefully all by Friday.
I have one post left for The Moveable Feast read-a-long, and Wallace is also organizing the Bleak House read-a-long, if any of you are interested.
If you haven't become a reader of The Rumpus, you are missing out on some fantastic pieces. And also, you should think about subscribing to Stephen Elliott's emails. They always link up to wonderful essays, like Melissa Chadburn's The Dress Doesn't Make the Priest, and Seth Fischer's Notes from Unicorn.
Also, y'all know I'm going to hound you about becoming Lit Stack readers. Jennifer M (of Books, Personally) just read and reviewed Andre Dubus III's Townie, and interviewed him as well. You can also find Lit Stack on Pinterest. On Wednesday I'll be posting a giveaway for an autographed The Fault in Our Stars. Who can enter? Anyone who follows LitStack on FB or Pinterest.
Books I recently received:
by Leslie Daniels
"Daniels delivers a moving novel about a woman who must pull her life together and find a way to love again after the marriage she gave up everything for fails."
The Good Father
by Noah Hawley
"An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son. As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. "
The Land of Decoration
by Grace McCleen
"With its intensely taut storytelling and crystalline prose, The Land of Decoration is a gripping, psychologically complex story of good and evil, belonging and isolation, which casts new and startling light on how far we'll go to protect the things we love most."
