Currently and Recently . . .

. . . listening to: Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 1

. . . finished reading: Keith Oatley's Therefore Choose. An interesting (if a tad too ambitious) story about a young Englishman who endures the complexities of love and friendship with two Germans during WWII. Also just finished Laurie Viera Rigler's Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict which was light, not altogether boring, but not quite as fun as the series Lost In Austen (which is along a similar theme of getting swallowed up in the world of Austen novels).

. . . watched: It's Complicated. And it is. Including my reaction. While I loved Baldwin's performance (and need one say Streep is brilliant?) and Steve Martin was wonderfully understated and pitch perfect, I was a bit let down by some character consistency in the writing as well as by the actors playing the two youngest children (they both needed to project far more complexity than they did). John Krasinski was consistently brilliant throughout (best moments in the film involved him). And I have to say I loved Jane's (Streep's character) house and bakery.

. . . reading: I am now fully engrossed in Eliot's Romola. It took a little while to get into this one, I admit, but now I am biting nails over poor Romola and her beautiful, but not altogether emotionally safe, Tito. I've also started in on Touchstone by Laurie R. King. I just couldn't bear it sitting there on the TBR shelf, waiting patiently to be lifted, opened and read. It was just too tempting. So far, I'm loving it. More to come on both these novels, I suspect.

. . . looking forward to: I've three novels from the library that are next on my reading list. Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. Much reading pleasure ahead.