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TGIF: What are you reading this weekend?

It's Friday night and we can't wait to dig into a big pile of books. Here is what a few of us will be reading this weekend:

Daphne:
First I have to talk about the books I devoured last weekend--The Spellman Files and The Shotgun Rule. Very different, but so much fun. The Spellman Files is a hilarious (I'm talking spit-take funny) light mystery about a private investigator named Izzy Spellman who is trying to get out the family business, but they won't let her go. The Shotgun Rule is a stellar stand-alone from Charlie Huston. Intense and fast-paced and brutal. Four teenagers get mixed up in some bad business and have to fight their way out. A must-read for any Huston fan, and not a bad place to start if you want to give Huston a shot.

This weekend I'm going to try Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (due on June 5). I'm not sure what to expect because the book description is very brief: "It's July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset Coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come..." Hmmm. Not giving me much to go on, but I shall put my trust in McEwan.

Anne:
While my friends and neighbors here at Amazon are digging into some juicy new releases this weekend, I'll be curling up with Henry IV, Part I. Sounds kind of like a snoozefest, you say? Well, the jury's still out. In my college lit classes I managed to avoid the Shakespeare histories almost entirely (except for the wickedly wicked Richard III) and I figured that I should kick off a return to the classics with what I sense is the most well-known and -loved of the histories. So far, I'm over the iambic pentameter hurdle and really enjoying the banter between young Hal and his not-so-trusty sidekick. I enlisted my best friend to read along with me, and on Sunday we'll convene to discuss--with ale and cheese to help us along, in true Falstaffian style. The Bard doesn't stop here, though. I'm planning to read (or re-read) at least one Shakespeare play every month, until I work my way through the whole canon. Any recommendations for what to tackle next? With National Poetry Month on the horizon, I may have to break from the plays in favor of this.

Brooke:
I made no plans this weekend, and it's all Daphne's fault. I bought three books from her Mystery Delivers this month (Lisa Unger's Sliver of Truth, Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind, and Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box), and I hope to be a book glutton and read all three this weekend. If anyone is interested in getting monthly book recommendations, you can sign up for Delivers here.

What are you reading this weekend?
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