My reading has been varied, of late. Which Witch? is a delightfully quirky young person's book. Not a person as young as Josie but I think she'll enjoy it in a few more years. It has a Roald Dahl-ish sort of humor that really appealed to me.
Then I bombed through a bunch of early Heinlein--paperbacks I bought over sixty years ago. They're corny and outdated--very sexist and non-PC and the folks piloting spaceships are still using slide rules.
But I kept finding bits that jumped out at me. In The Puppet Masters, an alien race of slug-like parasites has landed and is taking over the minds of people across the country. In one scene, the good guys were looking at a map of the US and the red that denoted that the aliens had control of that area was in great swathes across the South and Midwest.It seemed suddenly relevant.
Then I picked up another old paperback, evidently from a college course. Washington Square and The Europeans by Henry James, and found myself enjoying James's leisurely prose and sharp eye for social nuances.
Where shall I go next?
