what I've been reading
I finished 2 books recently: "Dear American Airlines" by Jonathan Miles and "Dr. Sweet and His Daughter" by Peter Bradshaw. Both were worth reading; the first is a better book, but is darker and more bittersweet. The latter handles family interactions beautifully, but the more fantastic elements are shakier (the author gets almost every detail of cancer research wrong.) But my main conclusion is this: I need a personal moratorium on books with 40-something male protagonists coming to terms with their failures.