reading wednesday

• What are you reading?

Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1, by Hiromu Arakawa.
Liars and Outliers, by Bruce Schneier.
French the easy way, by Christopher Kendris and Theodore Kendris, so I can speak French to my kid.

• What did you recently finish reading?
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff. I like stories about children who are reared apart from society, in an enclave of people who are trying to do something different and better, who then have to figure out how to be adults in the world without knowing the things everybody knows. This one is beautifully written. (Here, Bit is fourteen:)

He had liberated a red lightbulb from a photography store and stolen cash from Hannah for the chemicals, and only in the half-light of his improvised darkroom, watching the world emerge on a piece of white paper, did he feel his old self stirring. He could control this world. He could create tiny windows he could fit between his hands and study until he began to understand them.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

My book groups' next books are:
The Player of Games, by Iain Banks,
Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey,
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova