Last week I spent most of the week frantically trying to finish Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections for book group on Thursday. I managed to do it (though didn't get enough sleep Wednesday night as a result). I liked it but didn't love it. Some individual scenes were quite entertaining but perhaps it was just too long to feel very cohesive overall. I noticed Franzen has at least one book of short stories available. I somehow think I'll prefer those.

Last night I again stayed up later than I should have finishing a book. This time it was William Gibson's latest, Pattern Recognition. I quite liked it actually. I'd been a little leary after his reading at Powells last week, but it turns out he'd just chosen a scene to read that really didn't stand on its own all that well.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 5:04 PM