Last week while procrastinating updating my resume I ended up reading, in its entirety, Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. I'd checked it out from the library not really because I was all that interested in it, but because it's the book that was chosen by my county to try to convince everyone to read (part of the One City One Book program). Call me a cynic, but I rather doubt it could work as theorized in the book, but it is a neat idea, and not bad as a novel either.

Last night I finished Ben Elton's Stark, which was a huge contrast from Pay it Forward. This one was about greed, power and getting away with it, with a decidedly non-Hollywood ending, but done up as a huge dark comedy.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:34 AM