Because I am sure you don't have enough to read this weekend, let me help you out. Here's a few things that caught my eye this week. A little bookishness for you to enjoy at your leisure.
First, if you see this on Friday March 3, you can get the ebook version of Meville House's James Baldwin: The Last Interview for the low low low price of only 99¢! Very timely indeed since this weekend also sees the opening of the film I am Not Your Negro based on Baldwin's unfinished novel. Baldwin's Giovanni's Room was one of my favorite books last year and I hope to read more of his work this year.
As someone who loves to walk (and why don't I read more books about walking?!) it seems a sign that I have come across not one but two interesting articles about Lauren Elkin's Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. It is one I think I need to order, read and own! You can read about the book here and an interview with the author here. It will make the perfect companion read to Kathleen Rooney's Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, which I have just bought as well.
Less than a week to go until the Baileys Women's Prize longlist is announced. I love seeing the books on the list and with a mere dozen that will be on this year's longlist, maybe (just maybe) I can read a few before they whittle the list down in April. I have been watching with some interest the predictions that other readers are making. However, I can't decide whether they inspire me or depress me. I swear I am reading as fast as I can (which is not particularly fast in comparison to many other readers), but I never seem to have much overlap with all the literary/contemporary fiction that others seem to manage. It makes me wonder just what am I reading. When I am reading, however, the books seem pretty good and sometimes even wonderful, but I always seem to be on some other strange reading path. (Cue inward sigh). That said, if you are curious, too, you can see some predictions here and here and here and here.
If nothing else I have added lots more books to my wishlist. I do think this will at least prompt me to pick up two books that I have wanted to read (or in one case just decided now I want to read and so have borrowed a library copy) and might possibly be on the list (or maybe not, but I still want to read them!): The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (has been on my 'want to read pile' for a long time) and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (have seen this one around but just looked at it and decided it sounds very good indeed).
So, do you have any insight into what might appear on the list? A favorite read so far this year or a book you expect to see there? I plan on picking up both the Perry and Gyasi this weekend.
Oh, and I have lots of other really good 'in progress' books (see sidebar . . .) that I shall be dipping into.
Spoiled for choice (or snowed under--depending on how you look at it!). What will you be reading this weekend?