It’s cold & raining outside & I should be using the time to be productive (okay, I guess a blog post or two counts as semi-productive) but what I really want to do is just curl up with a cup of coffee, a good book and a fire. Anyone reading anything great?

Hi Elle – I think you might like a book called The Imperfectionists. I haven’t finished it but think you might like it. Here’s a review:
“This first novel by Tom Rachman, a London-born journalist who has lived and worked all over the world, is so good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off. I still haven’t answered that question, nor do I know how someone so young … could have acquired such a precocious grasp of human foibles. The novel is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching.”
—Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review (Front-Page Review)