What I am Reading

While traveling I have been reading and want to suggest a few good books. I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road because I knew I had to--Entertainment Weekly named The Road the best book of the last 25 years and it is currently being made into a movie--both reasons enough for me. It was an excellent book: disturbing, fascinating, and important for the vision it presents and the issues it forces us to confront and discuss. I highly recommend it. Then I read another book on Entertainment Weekly's list and one I have meant to read for awhile: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. Another excellent book that distinguishes between mourning and grieving and made me appreciate my marriage. I thought it was more about love, not death. And, finally I read what I consider required Mississippi reading: Willie Morris's Good Ol' Boy, which paints a perfect picture of Yazoo City, Mississippi, through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. A fun, lighthearted book about small-town Mississippi. What's next on the night table? I am still thiking; I will keep you posted.