What I’ve been reading lately

Blood Sucking Fiends by
Christopher Moore. Read this on the plane rides to and back from New
Orleans. Vampire and slacker lover in San Francisco. Entertaining
enough but started out better than it finished. Years ago I was
involved in developing a film adaptation of Moore’s Coyote Blue — which never went anywhere. Ah well!

I was told there’d be cake
by Sloane Crosley. The personal essays of a young upper middle class
assimilated to the vanishing point suburban Westchester college
educated New York-living magazine and book publishing working 29 year
old —  don’t know how charming she is in person, but she sure is on
the page. Although some of the essays are longer than my attention
span, I found myself consistently interested. That being said, if
pressed, I just remembers shards of the essays: she collects toy ponies
given by ex boyfriends, something about having a Christmas Tree, stuff
about her mother and jewelry, living on the upper west side with a
roommate, attempts at a one night stand — I don’t know either I’m
losing my mind (possible) or I need the book in front of me as a cue
(probable). Anyhow, I would read more of her writing and how often does
one say that?

You don’t love me yet
by Jonathan Lethem – Slight but fun. The story of members of an LA rock
band who have a moment and then tear apart, with loads of sex — like
Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision,  it reminds you of a certain moment in life (youth, ambition, promiscuity –others if not your own)

Otherwise,
I’m somewhat in a reading funk. Lots that I should be reading, little
I’m excited to read. I started the Jumpha Lahiri, and It’s good, —
really good — but I feel it’s more a book to read on a trip than one
to zip though on a weekend. I stated Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children but I stopped and haven’t started again.