Very little light reading on the go at the moment:
- The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a companion read to Jonathan Safran Foer’s masterpiece Eating Food
- I’ve been hanging out for Michael Lewis’s latest, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Unlike many, I didn’t grow besotted with Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, but I sure am keen to try Beatrice and Vergil: A Novel
- My sole foray into crime fiction is Stuart Neville’s much-hyped The Twelve
- After almost but never quite reading Gene Wolfe’s last few unheralded novels, I’m determined to give The Sorceror’s House a go
- Elizabeth Kostova’s sophomore The Swan Thieves: A Novel arrives accompanied by mixed reports
- The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, by a historian I’ve never tried before, Joyce Appleby, matches a current interest of mine
- The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter, is another novel set in the fascinating financial world
- Ditto Adam Haslett’s Union Atlantic
- James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity promises to inform and inspire equally