Hmm... right now I am reading Masquerade. It's a biography of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the revolutionary war. It's a mixture of business and pleasure, as it will enevitably help with the dis, but I'm not reading it for class.
And then there's a bunch of reading I need to do for next week I'm putting off. And a bunch for my papers. I'll be working on Slaves in Algiers this week as I have a draft due Friday on my paper for Transatlantic feminisms...
But, last week on vacation I finished Devil in the White City and Name All the Animals. Both were really, really good. Devil in the White City is about the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer, and Name All the Animals is a memoir about a woman whose brother died and her first love (who was a woman, so not for those who find that offensive).
I liked Memoirs of a Geisha too- and Ruchie, that Frenchwoman book doesn't mention how many women in France stay skinny by SMOKING.