What Are You Reading (Actually On A) Wednesday

What Are You Reading Wednesday:

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading? I've put aside all of my leisure reading in favour of a somewhat strange selection of texts that are assigned for high school exams here. Currently I'm reading Steinbeck's The Pearl and am surprised to find I like it.

What did you recently finish reading?

All of these are high school texts:

Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


( Read more... )

Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was a delightful, women-centred play, with a nuanced and sympathetic ethical critique as well as Wilde's trademark social satire. It questions the notion of *goodness* and of what makes a good mother, as well as poking at the currents of loyalty, jealousy, and insecurity that lie under fashionable social networks. It was fun! I would love to see it on stage.

Salome by Oscar Wilde

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Now this I did not like. It was overblown, melodramatic and lacking in Wilde's typical wit. I suspect the dialogue may have been more appealing in the original French.

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


On the dot plot of 'novels that integrate historical investigation and modern plot', ( Draw a line between Dan Brown and A.S. Byatt )

What will you read next?

More Steinbeck. Some Jamaica Kincaid.