What are you reading?

[Sparkle]

I've just finished reading

'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherynne M. Valente

It is YA fiction, it was sweet and quirky and charming; but quite a slow read. Probably best for the 10 and under crowd.

Now I'm thinking perhaps this...

'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman
(the author of the His Dark Materials Trilogy including the Golden Compass)

from amazon:
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.

In Pullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.”

Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself."