Too Good...

I finished Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and it was as good as I hoped. There is the heart wrenching connection to the lead character and his family magnified by the fact that he is most likely my age or slightly older. Eggers describes many pop culture references that bring back my final years as an undergrad and my first years in New York City (despite his life in California) and ring so true. This is the sort of book where I mourn the loss of a friend when I have to leave the characters at the end of the book. Eggers wraps you up in has world so well, you can imagine the storyline continuing and the characters living on but you are unable to be a part of that world once the pages run out.

I have now moved in to the world of Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire. I have become a fan of Maguire's and have already read Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His stories blend my love of historical fiction with fairy tales in a way that makes these tales believable...as though they very well could be the source of the fairy tales. Mirror Mirror, like the two other books by Maguire I have read, has a story that evolves in a mysterious and evocative manner but they are by no means formulaic! I am not half way through yet, but I am on pins and needles to see how this tale will play out.