Ian McEwan's
Saturday was July's book group pick. It was only the second McEwan book I've read and it was very different than the other,
The Innocent.
Saturday takes place on a single Saturday in London. Many things happen on that one day to the protangonist, a neurosurgeon. While I was reading it I was reminded of some of Nicholson Baker's books like
Mezzanine which take place in very compressed periods of times. I liked
Saturday but didn't love it.
posted by kristin at 1:03 PM
Genreflecting by Diana Tixier Herald is one of the classics of readers' advisory tools. I haven't read the most recent edition, but I went through an ebook of the previous edition (the 5th). It provides a good overview of many genres and subgenres of fiction, along with suggestions of books that fall in each of the categories.
posted by kristin at 1:01 PM 
