Just finished: Haruki Murakami's sufficiently weird 1Q84 (Books 1&2). Not sure that it's one of his best, but it's enough to get you lost in the kind of slightly-parallel world that HM has made his own. As ever, the sense of dislocation is sometimes subtle, and sometimes utterly outrageous (& he seems more obsessed by sex than usual). Still, the two central characters are compelling enough to make me want to read part 3... which, I guess, is the idea.
Just about to start: New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani. Got high hopes for this - a paean to the importance of memory and language.
Book I am looking forward to reading in a Boxing Day stupor: Amanda Foreman's World on Fire - a veritable doorstop of a book documenting British involvement in the American Civil War, and hefty enough that you could fire it from a cannon.
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