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Just finished Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan. I've been interested in his work, in large part because he's a New Englander and writes about very New England topics. WYWH was a thoroughly enjoyable read, though it's not a monumental work. Basically not much happens, but the study of the various members of a family on their last visit to their summer cottage is very well done.
On to Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. (I usually try to read several of the Man Booker long-list titles.)
But in the meantime, I'm reading Boomerang and The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Saw him interviewed on The Daily Show and if anyone can make the financial crisis interesting, it seems he can. Boomerang is really good (almost done with it) - explains how national character issues prompted and aggravated the current financial crisis here in Europe. And the parallels with what is going on in the US are pretty amazing. (He's apparently going to deal with that in the final chapter.)
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