I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. I had it on hold, but a lot of other people were faster than me and got to read it first. It was totally worth the wait. I think this should be required reading in all schools. Heck, everyone should read it. It’s a truly amazing book and I’m so glad that it won the National Book Award last year. I am a big fan of Alexie’s movie Smoke Signals (based on short stories from his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). You know me, I’m not going to tell you what it’s about. I’m just going to say: Add it to your reading list.

I also raced through a couple of Diane Mott Davidson’s mysteries, THE CEREAL MURDERS and DYING FOR CHOCOLATE. Always fun. And I listened to another Jeeves & Wooster book on CD (JEEVES IN THE OFFING). Unlike the others, this one wasn’t a very good recording, despite the fact that one of my favorite actors did the reading. He just read too fast and sometimes I had no idea who was talking. The other recordings were much better.