What's everyone been reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

Yep. It's that time again... What's everyone been reading in... Oh, wait, I didn't ask last month, did I? Since I've last asked then. I think that makes in 'in May and June'.

Anyway, what's been on your reading palate and would you recommend it? ^-^

I've had a good reading month the past June, but May wasn't quite as spectacular. But in the interest of brevity and reading-list-friendliness, I'll leave more detailed responses for in a comment. I want to see how/whether that works better for people than a cut. ^-^

Comments

[snakeling]

Haha, you only want it because you don't really know what it's like :D (Always on my feet, stupid customers, moving heavy boxes of books, rude customers, keeping an eye out for thieves, stinky customers, stock keeping, messy customers... And all that for minimum wage, despite being the proud owner of a Master in English. Of course, any and all reading happens on my free time.) I mean, it's got its good sides, or I wouldn't do it, but the reality is a far cry from people's imaginations.

Nobody's holding a gun to my head, but given that a lot of people will ask: "Did you read the latest Prix Goncourt? Is it good?", it's better to have an idea. (I find most Prix Goncourt unreadable for the pretentiousness and self-congratulatory masturbatory style; Prix Goncourt des Lycéens [chosen by high-schoolers] is usually a better read.)

[sweet_sparrow]

*grins* I know. A friend of mine used to work in a bookstore. I still think I'd appreciate the job, though. Well, the upside of it. ^-~ (Well, not so much the heavy boxes part. I'm... not very strong.)

Mmmm. Makes sense. I'd go mad in our local bookstore since it's all Dutch, which I don't read, and I disagree strongly with the books that get translated. There are so, so many far better books out there. If I could make a living off literary translation, I might actually try to figure out how to go about that...