Read/read/reading: Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Stardust was lovely - criminally short, but fantasy at its best in that sense, leaving enough to the imagination and defying convention without seeming aggressively counterculture. I might even watch the film, now. Also: it’s struck me that I consider myself a huge Neil Gaiman fan, even though I’ve only read two of his books (this, and American Gods). That’s probably important.

Rock On was a bit lacking in substance - any ode to a lost heyday tends to be that way - but riotously funny, nevertheless. I came to this from The Moth, which is definitely worth listening to, and while there are probably much better books out there, this is a lot of fun.

The Marriage Plot will be my second Eugenides book (after Middlesex - I haven’t read The Virgin Suicides). I’m very excited.