Currently reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell. Not something I normally would have picked up (was a Christmas present), but I'm totally digging it. It's a bunch of essays on American culture and politics from what the mainstream would probably consider an "alternative" viewpoint. She has interesting opinions, she's funny, and I'm learning stuff, too.
Before that it was The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, who is one of my favorite writers. The book is basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme rewritten as a murder mystery. Clever as shit. Kind of that dry, British sense of humor -- think Douglas Adams meets Monty Python.
Before THAT I read The World According to Garp. Standard John Irving fare (all the same plotlines from his other books tossed into a blender and pulsed for, like, a quarter of a second), but I loved it just like I love all of his other stuff.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2009-01-06 12:40 am (UTC)Before that it was The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, who is one of my favorite writers. The book is basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme rewritten as a murder mystery. Clever as shit. Kind of that dry, British sense of humor -- think Douglas Adams meets Monty Python.
Before THAT I read The World According to Garp. Standard John Irving fare (all the same plotlines from his other books tossed into a blender and pulsed for, like, a quarter of a second), but I loved it just like I love all of his other stuff.