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Originally Posted by Medusa99
I hope I'm not the only person here who really enjoys fluff; usually my only free time for reading is right before bed and books that require thinking don't help me fall asleep. I'm reading The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy. I've read several of her books and loved them; I just started this one so I have high hopes.
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Oh, I love Maeve Binchy. While I didn't like Quentins' as much as some of her other books, it's a good bit of fluff. I really enjoyed Evening Class, Tara Road, The Glass Lake, and Echoes. Echoes is probably my favorite of hers. Her book of short stores, London Transports, is also very good.
What I'm reading right now: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt's a well-known scholar in the field and I've read a lot of excerpts of his other works (more scholarly than this) in my Shakespeare/Elizabethan lit classes...I had no idea he had written this book until I saw it at Costco of all places.
While highly speculative about Shakespeare's actual life, it does draw on a lot of historical detail about the time, and I find that fascinating. Greenblatt has done a great job of recreating Shakespeare's world, and I'm impressed so far.