AFTER WONDER. This is the new title for my new novel. I am close to being finished with a big revision. Feeling good about that.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I just began this. I love Aomame.
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
I bought my copy of the new translation on Sunday. I am planning to read 100 pages a week with Mary-Beth Hughes, who is teaching it at Pratt. I am going to teach it at The New School in the fall with a pile of other fiction centered on times of war. I should be finished in the spring. I am excited about this.
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett. I was attracted to this novel not by any good reason, but by it's title. I was worrying there are too many books with 'wonder' in their titles for me to repeat it in the title of my own new book. I'm not worried about that anymore-it's so very different from my book- and I loved it. I can't stop thinking about the stillborn merbaby and the women gnawing the bark on the trees. It's also the first book I have read on my new Kindle. A great experience, though I do miss page numbers. And I haven't been able to get into The Prague Cemetery in the ebook reader format. Seems Eco demands to be read on paper.