"Starfish" by Peter Watts. This book took me by surprise, because it's one of the Tor freebies I downloaded some time ago, so my expectations were not very high. Not only is the story good (several of the other Tor books I read also had good stories), but the writing is also good. It even made me miss my bedtime last night, which doesn't happen very often
And still continuing on and off with Proust. I'm almost at the end of "A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur" (I think the English title is Within a Budding Grove).