Yes is very good !

I just bought the last one from John Le Carre

Did yours make the cut? The American Book Review’s

100 Best First Lines from Novels

Just finished: "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I'd highly recommend reading this - especially if you or someone you know has cancer. Very interesting.

And since the authors name was Siddhartha, I re-read "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse. Hadn't read it since High School. Another great read.

Just finished Trespass by Rose Tremain.

A tight story about a group of residents in Southern France. Gripping stuff.

When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in September 2008, he left behind the manuscript for The Pale King an unfinished novel he started researching back in 1997, not long after the publication of Infinite Jest. . The Pale King was finally published this April 15, a date that was hardly arbitrary. Offering a lengthy meditation on boredom, The Pale King is set in a Midwestern I.R.S. office. And what was April 15th? The day when Americans traditionally file their taxes..


The posthumous novel came together with the help of Wallace’s longtime editor, Michael Pietsch, who spent two years working through heaps of pages left in bins, drawers and wire baskets, hoping to turn this mass of material into the most complete novel possible. The interview with Pietsch above, along with this short piece in The New York Times, brings you inside the editing/making of The Pale King, which has already received some favorable reviews.