Current Reads

I have a goal of reading 30 books in 2012. It was also my goal in 2011 and I nearly reached it, but thanks to a few crazy long books, I came up short. So far I am ahead two books but that gap tends to close in the summer. 

We'll see.

My favorite book thus far is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I listened to this because I don't think 

I would ever get through the actual novel. 

Oh my word, it was wonderful. Perfect narration, intricate story. 

Just loved it.

This book stuck with me, haunted me (in a good way), 

and will be a hard book to beat.

I haven't seen the film yet. I forget plots quickly, so I will wait a little while until I won't be picky about the missing plot points.

I also read the play Women's Minyan.

It was a quick read, but again, I felt so connected to the characters even though they are worlds away in an Orthodox Jewish community in Israel. I think this was a 1.99 Kindle download and it was definitely worth the price and then some.

After 44 hours of listening (and being freaked out, confused, and then terrified) I finally finished Stephen King's It.

My husband is a huuuuuge Stephen King fan. Has nearly every single one of his books. Loves them all.

I've always been turned off by the ginormousness of the books. Oh and the sheer terror that is supposed to accompany reading them.

But then 11/22/63 was being published and all the people who reviewed it were so thrilled about the links between It and this new book, so I caved.

It was really flipping long.

Realllllly long.

But it was satisfyingly good.

Now I am reading 11/22/63 and it is quite possibly in the top ten books I've ever read.

The story starts right up, no draggingly long back story, no set up, it just starts.

And bonus, it's not scary.

What have you been reading lately?