The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Amusing, wry, and sometimes bittersweet look at the lives of international journalists, editors, and others who work at a newspaper in Rome. Interconnected vignette-style novel. Smart, enjoyable, but not particularly memorable.
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Do not read this alone at Noodles and Co. if you don't want to laugh so hard that you spit Japanese Udon Noodles out through your nose onto your Kindle. That is all.
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Eight Vassar graduates in the early 1930's figure out life and love in New York. Unflinching, honest, daring portrayal of women's inner lives before we all over-shared on Facebook. Functions almost as a sociological text. First published in 1963. A fast read for how thick it is; also another interconnected-vignette style novel (that makes three within the last two months: Let the Great World Spin; The Imperfectionists; The Group. I guess this is my style!)
Three great quotes from The Group:
"In private, they often discussed her, like toys discussing their owner, and concluded that she was awfully inhuman."
"'Who was it said,' she added, twinkling, 'that his wife had a whim of iron? My father always quotes that when he has to give in to Mother.'"
"'I felt sure he'd been invited and was staying away on purpose and that everybody there knew that and was watching me out of the corner of their eye.'"
"'Your grammar, Dottie!' chided her mother, absently; her sky-blue eyes had clouded over."
Currently reading:
Though I may have to pause and pick it back up later - it's through inter-library loan, it's been renewed twice and is now overdue, and I've only read one of the stories in it.
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