Cattiness from the TBR pile

Jennifer Weiner does a hilarious reading of Curtis Sittenfeld’s review of Melissa Banks’s The Wonder Spot. Sittenfeld’s Prep was given to me by a friend, so it’s on my nightstand now, though the reviews I’ve read have been less than compelling. At a presentation I attended earlier this year, Michael Cart, a young-adult fiction expert I’ve quoted before, wondered if Prep would have been better with an editor familiar with the young adult genre, since it includes a lot of typical YA cliches.

I loved Banks’s first book, a novel in stories, The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing. The Wonder Spot, the victim of Sittenfeld’s review, is in transit to my local library right now.

Yet at bat on my reading list is Paradise by A.L. Kennedy, on deck is The Fall by Simon Mawer, and in the hole is Family Matters by David Guterson, all library books that have a return date. I think my library to-be-read books are going to create a black hole as they crash through the surface of my nightstand, where they reside alongside the “books I already own that I intend to read real soon” and “graphic novels that I’ve bought recently”. I’m not sure that taking the phrase “on the nightstand” literally has been the motivator that I thought it would be.

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