Reading Wednesday

I picked this meme up from gwyneira.

• What are you currently reading?

How Should a Person Be?, by Sheila Heti. I hate it. But there are parts that are so good that I keep reading, hoping that when I get to the end, when I can see the whole thing, I'll see something worth seeing. Like this:

Yesterday Margaux told me a story that her mother often tells about when she was a baby. It took Margaux a long time to talk, and everybody thought she was a little dumb. Margaux's mother had a friend who was a bit messed up and really into self-help books and all sorts of self-improvement tapes. One day, she had been telling Margaux's mother about a technique in which, whatever problem you came across in your life, you were just supposed to throw up your hands and say, Who cares? That night, as Margaux's parents and her slightly older sister were sitting around the dinner table and Margaux was in her high chair, her sister spilled her milk and the glass broke all across the table. Her mother started yelling, and her sister started crying. Then, from over in the high chair, they heard little Margaux going, Who cares?
I'm sorry, but I'm really glad she's my best friend. If I had known, when I was a baby, that in America there was a baby who was throwing up her hands and saying, first words out of her mouth, Who cares? and that one day she'd be my best friend, I would have relaxed for the next twenty-three years, not a single care in the world.

• What did you recently finish reading?

The Coroner's Lunch, by Colin Cotterill. I should post about that. I liked it.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

Probably Cold Cereal, by Adam Rex. Recommended by wired.