Satan's Sisters, by Star Jones

Satan's Sisters is exhibit A in a category I'll call "books I received as gifts and didn't get around to reading last year." My roommate heard Jones speak last summer and was kind enough to give me a signed copy of her novel Satan's Sisters. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm not gonna lie: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's trashy, scandalous and mindless, but sometimes that's just the kind of book I want to read.

Up next, I'm working on several projects, including:

Exhibits B and C of "books I received as gifts and didn't get around to reading": Freakonomics and A Darcy Christmas

The Kristeva project: Crime and Punishment will be followed by Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Julia Kristeva's Black Sun, which draws on ideas of Dostoevsky and Freud

Wives of Midnight in Paris project: The Paris Wife, Paula Mclain's novel about Hemingway's first wife Hadley and Alabama Song, a French novel about the early days of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald's romance