So far this year I've finished three books. Only one was from the list of books I was supposed to read last year. I feel so free.

The Book Lover's Book by Linda Kirk is a tiny little book that came with the Book Lover's Kit. Nothing terribly new to me, but the kit itself was cute (and a Christmas present).

Graham Joyce's The Tooth Fairy was a strange but good read. I liked it much better than Indigo which had been my introduction to Joyce's writing. I see now why people insisted I try him again. It was a somewhat darker read than I was expecting, but I suppose not nearly as much as it would have been had I ever really believed in the tooth fairy.

I finished off Robert Kaplan's The Coming Anarchy the other night. It's a series of essays; some are book reviews, some essays on politics and the state of the world. The fact that it was written pre-9/11 struck me forcefully a few times. Amazingly, it made me want to read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

I'm currently working on Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel. (finally!)
posted by Kristin Buxton at 3:52 PM