Recently read or currently reading:
Already mentioned these: *My Name is Lucy Barton/i, *The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu/i
The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth. Read this at nottelling’s suggestion and liked it.
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov. Read this with another book group. I was curious to read something else by Nabokov after Lolita, and it was a “quick and easy” choice.
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov. This is Nabokov’s autobiography. Really good! I wanted to read it because Pnin was about a Russian immigrant and I was curious about Nabokov’s own story.
The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes. Read with another book group. Good, but dark.
The Days of Laura Díaz, Carlos Fuentes. Thought it would be interesting to read this more recent novel by Fuentes with a female protagonist, but I’m not really liking it very much. Plodding though 500 pages of “meh.” 