I finished The Land of Laughs and did like it, and would recommend it. Carroll's one of those authors I'll probably start buying random copies of books from and give them to friends and say "read this." I think I like them because there's something about his writing style that compels me to (I'm not sure what that is though) and because they straddle the line between realistic and fantastic. There's always something not quite normal about his books, but he leads you there gradually.

While I was eating dinner I started reading Replay by Ken Grimwood since it's my current carry-around-in-my-purse book. Odd to have a novel start out with the main character's death, but not a bad read so far.

I grabbed Gain by Richard Powers off of the stack to start next, but only read a single page before crashing last night so I might change my mind later.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:34 AM