michelle

I <3 the UK, and so does Bill Bryson.

Reasonably entertaining post-apocalyptic zombie novel set in London. The best part is imagining where I'd hide from the zombies in this big city.

Quantum Leap + The Girl With the Dragon Tatto + (a dash of) Sherlock. Thoroughly enjoyable.

British newspaper columnist, Caitlin Moran, offers up tips on how to be a strident feminist (which doesn't mean you hate men), in this part-memoir, part humourous rant. Very enjoyable, and recommended to all current and latent feminists (men included).

Any book with a chapter discussing pauses in popular songs (with The Four Tops' “Bernadette” being a particularly great one) is doing something right. Egan is a very skilled writer, who says more in a paragraph than other writers say in a chapter. Though her characters were really well drawn, I didn't particularly like any of them. So while I savored every page, it felt like something was missing.