Reading, lately

I was a gluttonous reader over the holiday break. I went to the library and checked out an enormous stack of books and dove right in.

My favorite one of the bunch?

{Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother}

It was so amazingly funny and touching. It focuses on family tensions (um, do I ever read about anything else?) during a transitional period (a daughter prepares for her second wedding, the father has just retired). I wanted to tear through it as quickly as possible but somehow also make it last as long as possible. That's the sign of a good book.

I haven't read his first(?) novel yet, but it's on the list.