Feel like you have no time to read? You're not alone. There are many ways to fit a little extra reading into your life. Like short stories (see the latest title from Joyce Carol Oates, below) which take hardly any time at all. Or some easy reading (like Sophie Kinsella's latest), in which the pages simply fly by!
Beautiful Days, by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates's stories are, like her novels, richly diverse, exploring the intimate, secret inner lives of people both like us, and very unlike us. These are characters independent, bold, defiant, sometimes with grave consequences. If you share her fascination with the social, psychological and moral boundaries that govern our behavior (and really, isn't that what all good stories are about, deep down?), this collection should absolutely be on your reading list.
Surprise Me, by Sophie Kinsella. No one can ever know what goes on inside a marriage...sometimes not even the couple themselves. Sylvie and Dan have been together for ten years and they have a great life together: good communication, fulfilling jobs, lovely twin daughters. And then someone mentions that they could be together another sixty-eight years, and the suggestion breeds instant panic. The couple decides to implement Project Surprise Me, each of them surprising one another with gifts, dates and experiences, in order to keep things fresh. Some of these, of course, wind up with hilariously disastrous results. Other endeavors, however, reveal secrets each never dreamed the other might have been keeping all this time...
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