I’m reading Shogun.

I love a thick paperback.

I am currently reading The Friday Night Knitting Club – and let me say that I am only 90 or so pages in, but this book is just bleurgh.

It reads as being incredibly formulaic, as if the characters were created to hit some magic demographic combos (it’s actually offending me the way she writes about the different ethnicities of the characters), and I seriously doubt that the author has ever picked up a knitting needle in her life.

I do not recommend this book. I doubt I will finish it.

I’m trying to read more books, less magazines, and be choosier about the crap I fill my brain with online.

I have to admit something though. It seems like a lot of folks online are heavily into YA (it’s probably skewed for me since so many of my friends and acquaintances WRITE Young Adult novels) and it’s a genre that I don’t really enjoy… Coming of age stories need to have magic, werewolves, or lasers in order for me to get invested.

Now, I’m not saying that I only read high-minded, serious literature, because I don’t. I read a lot of fluff. I just finished Agent Dale Cooper’s autobiography My Life, My Tapes. It was great.

And so, I guess I’m looking for recommendations? If you just a read a really great book (or read a really great book a long time ago), let me know. If it’s hard to pin down the style or genre, even better.

I think the next book I read with probably be the final book in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. Or maybe this one.