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What I'm reading now

I've been on another lucky streak with the books I've been reading. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti was a very good read.  When Miranda July says "A book that risks everything,"I pay attention.  It's a bold "novel from life," but honestly, to really slip all the way in, I had to tell myself to stop thinking about the "from life" part, because otherwise I found myself caught up in trying to figure fact from fiction.  The book is peppered throughout with emails to the protagonist, and they are all in the same format: as a numbered list of things the character means to say.  For instance (quoting from the third chapter); 3. i wish i could buy a house for a friend like i can buy a cake. 4. if you're curious about what i think you look like as a house, you should see it. It made me want to send much more interesting emails. Love Bomb , by Lisa Zeidner is super fantastically fun read.  I mentioned this book in my previous post