New Review: The Dress Lodger
February 15, 2007 (1:15 AM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Sheri Holman's The Dress Lodger.

What a book. I'm less thrilled about the review -- I deliberately wrote it in a slightly more formal (some might say overwritten) style, just to see what tone I eventually want to use here. The lesson: not quite this one.

I'm about halfway through The Echo Maker right now. It's good, although the doctor's story is significantly more interesting than the sister's. I'm still not entirely sure what Powers intends to do with the story. Right now everybody appears to be treading water, but I sense vast forces aligning.

On my list after The Echo Maker -- assuming that I stay with fiction -- is David Mitchell's latest, Black Swan Green. If I go with nonfiction I might read Jan Crawford Greenburg's new expose on the Supreme Court, Supreme Conflict, although given my job I'm unlikely to write a review of that.